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neon ovalis wrote: Fri May 14, 2021 9:52 pm THE KIRLIAN FORCE is okay. :D
(looking forward to THE KIRLIAN WITNESS.)
if there is a hypnotist, a mesmerist, and alike in the film i am fine to watch it.
i have on kg a collection of films about this subject.
and i might start a thread about hypnotism (copy-pasting here the list from there) in (let's say) October.
coming under a hypnotic spell and watching a film is closely related.
i even read an academic book about hypnotism vs. cinema! :icon_eek: :icon_eek: :icon_eek:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo ... 51040.html

Stefan Andriopoulos:
Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema
(transl. by Peter Jansen and Stefan Andriopoulos, The University of Chicago Press, 2008)

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Silent cinema and contemporaneous literature explored themes of mesmerism, possession, and the ominous agency of corporate bodies that subsumed individual identities. At the same time, critics accused film itself of exerting a hypnotic influence over spellbound audiences. Stefan Andriopoulos shows that all this anxiety over being governed by an outside force was no marginal oddity, but rather a pervasive concern in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Tracing this preoccupation through the period’s films — as well as its legal, medical, and literary texts — Andriopoulos pays particular attention to the terrifying notion of murder committed against one’s will. He returns us to a time when medical researchers described the hypnotized subject as a medium who could be compelled to carry out violent crimes, and when films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler famously portrayed the hypnotist’s seemingly unlimited power on the movie screen. Juxtaposing these medicolegal and cinematic scenarios with modernist fiction, Andriopoulos also develops an innovative reading of Kafka’s novels, which center on the merging of human and corporate bodies.

Blending theoretical sophistication with scrupulous archival research and insightful film analysis, Possessed adds a new dimension to our understanding of today’s anxieties about the onslaught of visual media and the expanding reach of vast corporations that seem to absorb our own identities.
October is long gone but a thread/wave of kirlian force is finally coming to possess the minds of the hypnable!
Hypnosis is a psychological state with physiological attributes superficially resembling sleep and marked by an individual's level of awareness other than the ordinary conscious state. Another description of the phenomenon is that of an altered mental state, while another links it to imaginative role-enactment.

A person under hypnosis is said to have heightened focus and concentration with the ability to concentrate intensely on a specific thought or memory, while blocking out sources of distraction. Hypnosis is usually induced by a procedure known as a hypnotic induction involving a series of preliminary instructions and suggestions. The use of hypnotism for therapeutic purposes is referred to as "hypnotherapy", while its use as a form of entertainment for an audience is known as "stage hypnosis".

The term "hypnosis" (Greek: ὕπνωσις) comes from the Greek word hypnos, "sleep", and the suffix -osis, or from hypnoō, "put to sleep" (stem of aorist hypnōs-) and the suffix -is. The words "hypnosis" and "hypnotism" both derive from the term "neuro-hypnotism" (nervous sleep) coined by the Scottish surgeon James Braid around 1841. Braid based his practice on that developed by Franz Mesmer and his followers ("Mesmerism" or "animal magnetism"), but differed in his theory as to how the procedure worked.

There is a belief that hypnosis is a form of unconsciousness resembling sleep, but contemporary research suggests that hypnotic subjects are fully awake and are focusing attention, with a corresponding decrease in their peripheral awareness. Subjects also show an increased response to suggestions. In the first book on the subject, Neurypnology (1843), Braid described "hypnotism" as a state of physical relaxation accompanied and induced by mental concentration ("abstraction").
https://youtu.be/qi3Zgx0Jh9k

Anemic Cinema or Anémic Cinéma (1926) is a Dada/surrealist experimental film by Rrose Sélavy (the alter ego of Marcel Duchamp) made in collaboration with Man Ray and Marc Allégret in 1926.

Katrina Martin:
Marcel Duchamp's Anemic Cinema
— an article discussing and translating the phrases in Marcel Duchamp's Anemic Cinema
— in: Studio International, Vol. 189, No. 973 (January-February 1975), pp. 53-60
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/ ... nema+1.pdf
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HYPNOSIS & HYPNOTISM ON SCREEN 1895-1939

1890s
1895
— Trilby Hypnotic Scene
1896
1897
— At the Hypnotist’s
— The Hypnotist at Work / While Under a Hypnotist’s Influence
1898
— The Mesmerist
1899
— Mesmerist and Country Couple
 
1900s
1900
1901
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
— Is Spiritualism a Fraud?
1907
1908
— A Quick-Change Mesmerist
1909
— The Hypnotic Wife
— The Hypnotist’s Revenge
— The Rival Mesmerist
 
1910s
1910
— Max Hypnotized
1911
— The Hypnotist and the Convict
— A Juvenile Hypnotist / Juvenile Pranks
— Pik Nik veste la jupe-culotte (Mario Morais) W1
— Starting Something (Alice Guy-Blaché) W3
— Trilby and Svengali
1912
— Trilby
1913
— The Bells
— The Bells
— Hypnotized
— In the Grip of a Charlatan
1914
— Hypnotic Power
— The Hypnotic Violinist / Zigo
— Svengali
1915
— The Hypnotic Monkey
— Jones’ Hypnotic Eye
— Trilby
— The Vampires
1916
— His Innocent Dupe
— Homunculus
1917
— Functional-motor Stimulus and Paralysis in War Participants and Their Healing Through Suggestion in Hypnosis (Unknown) W7
1918
— The Bells
1919
— Different from the Others (Richard Oswald) W16
— The Master Hypnotist (Lau Lauritzen Sr) W10
— Swengali, The Disillusioned Hypnotist
 
1920s
1920
— The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari W15 CoMo
— Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
— Melchiad Koloman (Rudolf Liebscher) W9
1921
— The Case of Becky
1922
— Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler / Dr. Mabuse, King of Crime 
1923
— Trilby
— The Two-Souled Woman / The Untameable / The White Cat
1924
1925
— The Case of the Murder of Tariel Mklavadze (Ivane Perestiani) W13
1926
— Anémic cinéma (Marcel Duchamp) W0
— The Bells
— The Magician
1927
— London After Midnight
— Running Wild
— Running Wild
— Svengali
1928
1929
— Ko-ko's Hypnotism (Dave Fleischer) W2
— The Silent House

1930s
1930
1931
— Ein Ausgekochter Junge 
— Dracula 
— Daughter of the Dragon 
— The Mad Genius
— Palmy Days
— Silly Scandals
— Svengali
1932
— Chandu the Magician 
— Condemned to Death 
— Hypnotized
— The Mummy
— Rasputin and the Empress
— Thirteen Women
1933
— Sucker Money
— The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1934
1935
1936
— Dracula’s Daughter 
— Flash Gordon 
— Flash Gordon 
— The Garden Murder Case 
1937
— Dick Tracy 
— Francis the First (Christian-Jaque) W8
1938
— Carefree
— Flash Gordon’s Trip to Mars 
— I’m from the City
— Quadrille (Sacha Guitry) W14
1939
— Blind Alley 
— Charlie Chan at Treasure Island 
— Eternally Yours 
 
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HYPNOSIS & HYPNOTISM ON SCREEN 1940-1989

1940s
1940
— Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
1941
— Charlie Chan in Rio
— Invisible Ghost
1942
— Cat People
— Fingers at the Window
1943
— Calling Dr. Death
— The Dark Tower
— Ghosts on the Loose
— Son of Dracula
— Swing Fever
1944
— Charlie Chan: Meeting at Midnight / Black Magic
— The Climax
— Lost in a Harem
1945
— Bewitched
— The Frozen Ghost
— Here Come the Co-eds
— The Seventh Veil
— Spellbound
— The Woman in Green
1946
— The Fistic Mystic (Seymour Kneitel, 1946) W6
— The Mask of Diijon
— The Mouse-Merized Cat (Robert McKimson, 1946) W5
— Mr. Hex
— Svengali's Cat
1947
— Fear in the Night
— The Guilt of Janet Ames
— Nightmare Alley
1948
— The Pirate
— Silent Conflict
1949
— Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 
— Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff
— Black Magic 
— Whirlpool
 
1950s
1950
— Guilty of Treason
— The Strange Ones
1951
— Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
— Ghost Chasers
— The Tales of Hoffmann (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger) W0
1952
— Geisha Girl
1953
— Houdini
— Invaders from Mars
— Remains to Be Seen
— Will Any Gentleman…?
1954
— Svengali
1955
— The Court Jester
— How to Be Very, Very Popular
— City Detective (S. 2, Ep. 20): The Hypnotic Wife
— Spy Chasers
1956
— Anastasia
— Flagpole Jitters
— Nightmare
— The Search for Bridey Murphy
— The She-Creature
— Spell of the Hypnotist / Fright
1957
— The Brain from Planet Arous
— Hold That Hypnotist
— The Hypnotist / Scotland Yard Dragnet
— I Was a Teenage Werewolf
— Lizzie
— Nights of Cabiria
— Not of This Earth
— The Three Faces of Eve
— The Undead
1958
— Escapement
— How to Make a Monster
— The Magician
1959
— Horrors of the Black Museum

1960s
1960
— Black Sunday
— The Hypnotic Eye 
— The Night They Killed Rasputin
— Sex Kittens Go to College
1961
1962
— Freud 
— Hypnosis
— The Manchurian Candidate 
1963
— Diary of a Madman (Reginald Le Borg) W0
— The Mind Benders
1964
— The Devil Doll 
— The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?
— The Misadventures of Merlin Jones
1965
— The Ipcress File
— Night Caller from Outer Space
1966
— Let’s Kill Uncle, Before Uncle Kills Us
— Lord Love a Duck
— Rasputin: The Mad Monk
1967
— Casino Royale
— Divorce American Style
— The Sorcerers
1968
— Signs of Life (Werner Herzog) W0
1969
— The Maltese Bippy
— Wanda, the Sadistic Hypnotist
 
1970s
1970
— On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
— Taste the Blood of Dracula
1971
— Cold Turkey
— She Did What He Wanted
1972
— Love in the Afternoon (Éric Rohmer) W4
— The Peeper, the Model and the Hypnotist
— Play It As It Lays
— Up the Front
1973
— The Devil’s Undead / Nothing But the Night / The Resurrection Syndicate
— The Life of the Birds
— Power
— Savage
— Sisters
1974
— Magdalena, Possessed by the Devil
1975
— Darna vs. The Planet Women (Armando Garces, 1975) W11
— Let’s Do It Again
— The Mirror
— Psychic Killer / The Kirlian Force (Ray Danton) W0
— Daguerréotypes (Agnes Varda) W0
1976
— Heart of Glass (Werner Herzog) W0
— Spermula (Charles Matton) W0
1977
— Audrey Rose
— Equus
— Exorcist II: The Heretic
— High Anxiety
— Starship Invasions
1978
— Coach
— The Fury
— Patrick
1979
— Dracula
— Love at First Bite
 
1980s
1980
— Flash Gordon
— Somewhere in Time
1981
— In the Wink of an Eye
— Looker
— Scanners
1982
— I Was a Zombie for the F.B.I.
1983
— City of Pirates (Raúl Ruiz) W12
— Going Berserk
— The Return of Captain Invincible
— Screwballs
— Strange Brew
— Svengali
— Taking Tiger Mountain
— Zelig (Woody Allen) W0
1984
— The Bostonians
— Broadway Danny Rose 
— Death Warmed Up
— The Element of Crime
— The Natural
— The Razor's Edge 
— The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud
— Splitz
1985
— Agnes of God
— No End
— Re-Animator
— Return
1986
— Big Trouble in Little China
— Invaders from Mars
— Whoops Apocalypse
1987
— Anguish
— Epidemic
— Maurice
— Night of the Living Babes
— The Shaman
1988
— Hanussen
— The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
— Rock and the Money-Hungry Party Girls
1989
— Santa Sangre / Holy Blood (Alejandro Jodorowsky) W0
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HYPNOSIS & HYPNOTISM ON SCREEN SINCE 1990

1990s
1990
— Far Out Man 
— Invasion of the Space Preachers
— Magic Cop / Mr. Vampire 5
— Two Evil Eyes
1991
— Dead Again
— Europa
— Haunting Fear
— Hot Under the Collar 
— The Hypnotist
— Lightning Field / The Lightning Incident
— Liquid Dreams
— Problem Child 2
1992
— Intruders
— Raising Cain
1993
— Body of Influence
— Buford’s Beach Bunnies 
— Dying to Remember 
— Hypnotic Passions
— The Mask of Diijon
1994
— Brainscan
— Dead on Sight 
— The Kingdom (S. 1, Ep. 2): Thy Kingdom Come W0
— Mesmer
— Moment of Truth: A Mother’s Deception / Cult Rescue
— No Dessert, Dad, Till You Mow the Lawn
— A Wind from Wyoming
1995
1996
— Hypnotic Hookers 1
— Irma Vep
— Mindbender
— A Promise to Carolyn
— Rasputin
— Suggestive Behavior
1997
— Cure 
— Friends (S. 3, Ep. 18)
— The Killing Jar
— The Kingdom (S. 2, Ep. 3):  Gargantua
— Kiss the Girls
— Murder in Mind
— Seventh Heaven
1998
— Hypnotherapy
— The Hypnotic Murders
1999
— Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 
— Office Space
— Purple Storm
— Stir of Echoes
 
2000s
2000
2001
— The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (Woody Allen) W0
— Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly) W0
— Hera Purple
— K-Pax
— Natural Mystery: Health & Hypnosis
— Shallow Hal
— Simpsons (S. 13, Ep. 5): The Blunder Years
— Zoolander
2002
— Deanimated
— Hypnotized and Hysterical: Hairstylist Wanted
— The Mesmerist
2003
— Cancer Guided Imagery Program for Cancer Chemotherapy 
— Cancer Guided Imagery Program for Cancer Surgery
— Hypnosis
— The Mesmerist
2004
— The Amazing Floydini
— The Butterfly Effect
— Evilenko
— Hypnotized
— The Manchurian Candidate
— The Taste of Tea
2005
2006
— Inland Empire (David Lynch) W0
— Psychopathia Sexualis
2007
— The Aerial
2008
— Covert Hypnosis in Politics (Yoshi Sodeoka) W0
— The Great Buck Howard
— Hypnosis: Stop Smoking Within One Hour
— Hypnosis: Weight Loss Without Dieting
2009
— Hypnosis: Stress Relief for Life
— Magnetic Sleep (Episode #1) (Janie Geiser)
— Mesmerize Me
 
2010s
2010
— Mob HypnoTherapy
2011
2012
— The Hypnotist
2013
— Now You See Me
— Svengali
— Trance
2014
2015
2016
— Now You See Me 2
2017
— Get Out
2018
2019
— Missing Time (Morgan Quaintance)

2020s
2020
2021
— Servant (S. 2, Ep. 2)
2022

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ha, great!
Next festival: Jan 28 - Feb 6, 2022
3 hypnotic screenings:
Land of Dreams (Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari) — Jan 30
Memoria (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) — Feb 2
Speak No Evil (Christian Tafdrup) — Feb 6

Werner Herzog's dream comes true!
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pretty sure all the 'boring' reviews of this are written by people that don't start oozing at the bad, hypnotising, bad, very bad, hot priest (way way hotter than the actual silent film priest porn i watched the other day)...honestly horny old denmark of 1911, nothing like it....not surprised now how psilander became such a mega star

https://twitter.com/DKSilentFilm/status ... 1849942019

that book sounds cool! the one i read had a slightly different argument on cinema and the spooky psychical, in that actually people didn't really believe it that much, that cinema was an unbroken continuation of the comfortably familiar fin de siecle magic lantern/illusion shows that everyone went to to give themselves a (knowing) thrill and that if there was any real revolution of consciousness and the un-know/see-able it was through the almost simultaneous appearance of x-rays, and the spiritualism stuff was one last dying blossom of the unreal, as 'belief in things you can't see' got sucked into a legitimising techno-science dimension/oppression rather than hocus-pocus (one book i definitely read last year was mary midgley's scathing 'evolution as a religion')
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the esthetically noteworthy by-product of the "early" times' hype of spiritism (and alike) was then high popularity of the mediumistic drawings (drawings by "possessed") in Bohemia.
i like f.e. this website (The Collection of Mediumistic Art) devoted to the phenomenon → https://www.mediumistic.art/artists
some of the artists listed are from Bohemia & Moravia (tho some of them are German by nationality).
or... Mediumistic Art from the Czech Republic (tho mainly about mediumistic drawings in Silesia) → https://mediumisticart.com/discovering- ... istic-art/
Bohemian "mediumistic capital" was Nová Paka → https://muzeum.cz/en/permanent-exhibiti ... spiritism/

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i was already considering watching the film mentioned!
i have seen in the past TRAPPED BY THE MORMONS (H.B. Parkinson, 1922) and A MORMON MAID (Robert Z. Leonard, 1917) so to proceed towards A VICTIM OF THE MORMONS seems only natural.
oh, the hypnotic gaze! :shock:
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the Spiritualist House in Ostrava-Radvanice, which had been confiscated by the state in the 1950s and later served various purposes, the last being the Odboj Cinema
♥♥♥!!!

can anyone find a more complete or combined version of the below? (highly significant that the only portion that seems to be missing is the one where he encounters the spirits for the first time - very suspicious!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4l8l_O2vW4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8eTgByCWRg
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bizarre hypnotism in pik nik veste la jupe-culotte 1911

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The opposite of 'reify' is... ?
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omg! ko-ko flick ↑ is a svengali-hard-core!
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the previous with pik nik (or teddy) ↑↑ is remarkable as well!
Teddy (Pik Nik) is visiting his married lover. Her husband comes home and Teddy quickly disguises himself as a mannequin. When he sneezes, the man discovers him and chases after him. Teddy manages to lose him and he decides to write a letter to the husband, luring him to his house. He then hypnotizes the husband and shaves his head
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W5
1946 poll:

THE MOUSE-MERIZED CAT (Robert McKimson, 1946)
Babbit hypnotizies Catsello, despite his efforts to resist, into believing he’s Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Jimmy Durante, then a chicken, and finally a dog, who he sics on the cat. The cat hypnotizes him back. Finally, Catstello hypnotizes both of them into cowboy and horse, leaving him alone to enjoy the deli they live in.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3dbeom
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W6
1946 poll:

THE FISTIC MYSTIC (Seymour Kneitel, 1946)
Popeye and Olive enter the city of Badgag and spot Bluto doing magic tricks. He hypnotizes Olive like a snake charmer. Bluto introduces himself as the Great Bourgeois and gives Olive a fancy dress, turns Popeye into a donkey, and sits on a bed of nails. Popeye pounces on the bed and turns it into springs. The boys next compete in snake charming; Popeye blows a hornpipe on his pipe. Bluto next turns Popeye into a parrot. Bluto then locks Olive in a basket and does the sword trick; Olive escapes and gives parrot Popeye his spinach, which revives him. Bluto escapes with the rope trick and a flying carpet, but Popeye uses his pipe like a rocket to get aloft. Another battle, with Popeye using Bluto's own magic to turn Bluto into a canary. Popeye and Olive fly the carpet home, past the Statue of Liberty.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x34akqb
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W7
1917 poll:

FUNCTIONAL-MOTOR STIMULUS AND PARALYSIS IN WAR PARTICIPANTS AND THEIR HEALING THROUGH SUGGESTION IN HYPNOSIS (Unknown, 1917)
https://letterboxd.com/film/functional- ... -hypnosis/

Neurologist Max Nonne demonstrates a therapeutic procedure and its successes by means of suggestion in hypnosis for functional-motor disorders that arose as a result of the effects of the First World War.
streaming → https://www.filmportal.de/video/funktio ... en-heilung

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W8
1937 poll:
FRANCIS THE FIRST (Christian-Jaque, 1937)

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W9
MELCHIAD KOLOMAN (Rudolf Liebscher, 1920)

https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/viewtopic. ... 651#p41651

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Thank you for sharing this experience. It is really interesting.
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W10
The Master Hypnotist (Lau Lauritzen Sr, 1919)
viz another thread → https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/viewtopic. ... 047#p42047
Old Skipper Bims takes his daughter on a sailing trip and bitterly regrets it. Else falls head over heels for Helmsman Kik and Bims can’t stand that kind of romance! After the skipper has been hypnotised on land, he gets the idea that he might have hypnotic abilities himself, which could be used to separate Kik and his own daughter. The plan is put into action, but Bims has more regrets coming! It turns out that his newly discovered superpowers are even stronger than he himself had dared to hope.
unfortunately, the film is without subtitles and thus all i could grasp, from the original intertitles (related to hypnosis), were "daemonske glans" and "hokus pokus".
in any case, the appearance and gestures of a stage hypnotist are more than convincing...
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and hypnotized old skipper Bims goes truly berserk during his dance on rapport.
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the subsequent delusional exercise of (seemingly) newly acquired hypnotic powers (by old skipper Bims, on board his ship) is less spectacular but the impact is no less wild and amusing.
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W11
DARNA VS. THE PLANET WOMEN (Armando Garces, 1975)
viz another thread → https://scfzforum.org/phpBB3/viewtopic. ... 046#p42046

superheroine's (Narda's AKA Darna's) dim-witted (highly hypnable) boyfriend (Ramon) getting under the spell of the chief alien (Electra)...
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if anyone wonders what was moved to Ramon's subconscious (made out of reach of his recollection), then it was this...
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THE STORE (Frederick Wiseman, 1983)
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W12
i am only about half an hour into CITY OF PIRATES (Raúl Ruiz, 1983) and i already experienced a strange hypnotic phenomenon!

around minute 20 i got sedated, fell asleep (for a few minutes), and woke up watching this...
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so, i went back to see what i missed (what i slept through) and there was this...
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then i reached again the moment in the film when i woke up (with the heroine sleepwalking)...
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but i didn't realize at first, i am just rewatching the part i already watched.
i thought Ruiz makes the heroine walk in circles through the same landscape twice.
i even got the idea that i should make screenshots of her going through the same place for the first time and the second time and compare both to see if Ruiz let the heroine walk two circles or just used the same footage twice.
only then i realized what was going on — that the scene is not in the film twice but i see again what i saw before (after awakening).
i am trapped in Ruizian mesmerist maze!
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W14
the (diabolical) hypnotic power of a Hollywood star...
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1919 poll
Different from the Others (Richard Oswald)

1919 progressive didactic film demonstrating the blunder of conversion therapy (and campaigning against the Paragraph 175)
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