Cosmic Miniatures
Cosmic Miniatures
Cosmic Miniatures: During the last ten years, the fans’ pain of missing out on feature filmmaking, which had previously been a source of concern for the fans alone, has gained an almost global consensus that films are not made the way they used to. In the same time frame, the field of digital video technology has seen a tremendous increase meaning that unskilled individuals can now get to and use devices for image making which have abilities that are far greater than any that the best special effects department could have ever done only a generation back.
And this is also quite understandable since there are quite a number of filmmakers today – and all of them are some of the best of the bests – who, because of all this, instead, quite went towards the simple and the mundane and so stepped back to less complicated ideas of what cinema is.
Stylized bravado aside, one would think polite applause, promotion and position changes are the order of the day for their creations at this point what with the perspective and skills of those in the industry having greatly reached their maximum. Fairytale (2022) is one such work that is yet say none other than Alexander Sokurov has already tapped into this space by way of AI animated short polgafa fairytale.
It is quite speculated as to who is the next in the queue and assumes the responsibility, is it not easy to introduce Alexander Kluge? One of the true masters of New German Cinema. How about the very ‘dead’ Alexander Kluge, who made his way back to life a short time ago moving assemblage into five-to-twelve-hour long non-fiction films on such grave subjects as thee maelstrom of ideology and culture through the ages or the technologique as the successor of mankind; now ready (with brother-in-arms, Khavn) to return to the primal energy and aggression in the aesthetics he had been retreating for nearly half a century from? Each of Kluge’s ninety-one years has been marked by a passion for the performing arts.
The last time he left his apartment to walk out into the world was around 1972: having come back, he has released Cosmic Miniatures, this time an AI-written film. Its purpose or the underlying driving force seems to be performance without a narrative or plot.
However, it probably will all come crashing down, and it will commence with a bang I am sure. It is artfully directed in a way that most of the time it is a mere collection of A.I-generated images of space filled with mathematical formulas and star maps embellished with big sans comic captions, interspersed with moving image ‘gags’. It is quite a compilation, something an old person would compile about tinkering about with the stars.
Now, I will tell you to prepare for a level of schizophrenia change you listen to the soundtrack – ambient, classical, electronic, industrial, and different such kinds of noises – that can easily go viral on BitChute with a schizophrenia-inducing lecture. There is one such exceptional case that appears to engage on the verge of tongue in cheek emotions: There is a page about Laika, the seated space dog and this entire space section is filled with strange dog-in-space muzzled around the AI art.
This segment is titled as “The Funeral of PIRX the Spaceship Pilot” (inspired by Stanislav Lem’s character). I would classify it as deep fried Soviet futurism tiktok with Laibach rendition of “See That My Grave Is Kept Clean” in its audio background. All I have to say for this was that someone in his nineties made it and you should appreciate how batshit brilliant this document is.
Perhaps the above framing isn’t entirely accurate; after all, this is simply a side project of a man who always digresses. However, it does raise the question: why on earth screen then rather than moving images or still images in other words, just good old HTML?
It makes sense that Jean-Luc Godard decided to fill his last piece of work, released last year, with a wide array of static images — after all cinema is a visual art. But these oddballs Kluge has gathered here are begging to be turned into films. However, now various AI video generation tools can do it. And only in my wildest dreams can I imagine what a fully visual and time based Cosmic Miniatures is.
The end sequence briefly gives way to about five minutes of gentle beauty via shitpost cinema. It begins with an attention grabbing series of oblique images that capitalize on the concordance of biological and cosmological forms and then ends with a rather distressing cut from Heimat, the longtime Kluge collaborator and New German cinema icon Edgar Reitz titled ‘Lovers Beneath the Moon.
Kluge then proceeds to impose upon the beautiful sky time accelerations some forcefully artificial moon imposition. Beautiful sequence that it deserves to exist most beautifully and most authentic in its own right and so on etc because everyone knows when architecting along kstyks alexander kluge instagrams official edits ildntment.
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- Genre: Animation
- Country: United States
- Director: Alexander Kluge
- Cast: Alexander Kluge
