1924: Aelita: Queen of Mars (Yakov Protazanov) Lisa K. Broad November 2017 100 Years of Soviet Cinema Issue 85 Yakov Protazanov’s 1924 film, Aelita, begins in December of 1921 with the worldwide transmission of a cryptic message. An iris revealing a set of powerlines is followed by a quick cut to an image of an...
Aelita: Queen of Mars Lisa K. Broad April 2010 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 54 Yakov Protazanov’s 1924 film, Aelita, begins in December of 1921 with the worldwide transmission of a cryptic message. An iris revealing a set of powerlines is followed by a quick cut to an image of an...
Prisoners of Possibility: Robbe-Grillet’s La Belle Captive as ‘Quantum Text’ Lisa K. Broad August 2008 Feature Articles Issue 48 A detailed essay on Alain Robbe-Grillet’s René Magritte-inspired film derived from his 1975 picto-roman of the same title.