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Ben Chatwin ‎– The Sleeper Awakes

Beautiful modern composition album with a post-rock and atmospheric ambient edge to it. The moment of standing at the edge of the world, looking at a calm post-apocalyptic scenery and just turning away to leave everything behind and move on.

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Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Stunning in terms of visuals and theme. A few things that I feel worthy to highlight:

  • The character, set and costume designs are remarkable.
  • The world behind the movie is something that I am totally blown away by. I want to know so much more than I had the chance to catch in the flick.
  • Charlize Theron, obviously. Note: if you like to see her act grim and dark don’t miss out on Snow White and the Huntsman, which may be a much better movie than you might expect.
  • The voices are acted and added in a sterile and distanced manner, which produces an absolutely unique atmosphere. Like the conversations were not happening in place but layered over the story like some kind of narration.
  • The music was great, but in a few occasions the pathos was over the top and out of context. Still it’s something great to listen to even on its own right.
  • And the guy with the guitar! OMG. Every single appearance made me grin like an idiot.

I gathered quite a few poster art (official and fan-made) below.

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Amon Tobin – Dark Jovian

I added this one to my playlist a few days ago and since then I haven’t listened to anything else just keep hitting replay. A captivating experience of deep space ambient, groaning noises and ethereal voices.

Amon Tobin himself has some things to add:

“I made these tracks a year or two ago after binge-watching space exploration films. People have, from time to time, described things I’ve done as “scores for imaginary movies,” which has always irritated me, but on this occasion it’s sort of true.

Even so, what I was really trying to do was to interpret a sense of scale, like moving towards impossibly giant objects until they occupy your whole field of vision, planets turning, or even how it can feel just looking up at night.”

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Ex Machina (2015)

Beautiful piece of art of a movie of science fiction. On the trail of the AI-lead chamber drama atmosphere of the Moon and as stunning as the well-crafted shorts that usually don’t come through any publishing house but are driven by the motivation of one exceptionally talented vfx artist. I have a true hard time believing that this could make it as a normal budget featured film.

So much not said but played out in this film and it is such a relief and reassurance that you just don’t have to say everything out loud to get. Also a lot room for interpretations or I could rather say thoughts transferred for progressing.

Some more poster versions come below.

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My Dying Bride – The Cry of Mankind

I already noted this one before but every once in a while I return to this state of mind where The Cry of Mankind is my only and one saviour. The guitar strings resonate with my soul and the ship horns are like lighthouse beacons in the night. All of its 12 minutes are pure essence without a single note to miss.