Sentences with phrase «phantasmagoria for»

Today's retro game review is Phantasmagoria for the PC.

Not exact matches

At the instant something appears possible, and then a new possibility makes its appearance, at last this phantasmagoria moves so rapidly that it is as if everything were possible — and this is precisely the last moment, when the individual becomes for himself a mirage.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

Zombie's rowdy redneck phantasmagorias and weird swoons of empathy can't disguise that there's nowhere left for the story to go.

For De Palma, Obsession, Dressed to Kill, and Body Double are less the oft - accused rip - offs of previous Alfred Hitchcock films than rigorous reckonings with a burgeoning postmodern dilemma; not merely the «anxiety of influence,» to quote literary scholar Harold Bloom, but something more akin to outright agony, where questions of artistic lineage from the outside spool the proceedings within into a nightmarish phantasmagoria, the implications of which are still to be unraveled.

ParaNorman loses steam in the predictably extended climactic swirl of CGI phantasmagoria and preachy peacemaking, but for the most part, its winningly cockeyed grasp of the macabre makes it ideal scare - fare for families.Hide

This week Carly (@PoisonPinkFluff) from MammothGamers joins Tiny (@Tiny415) and Aaron (@Ind1fference) to talk about: PS Vita, Switch, Breathe of the Wild, What Remains of Edith Finch, Ether1, Death Road to Canada, Anthem, Destiny, Struggle for Catan, Catan Jr., Ticket to Ride, Dragon's Wood, Secret Hitler, God of War, WestWorld, #GameStruck4, Doom, Monster Hunter, City of Heroes, Over the Top, Great Philadelphia ComiCon, Super Mario World, River Raid, WCW / NWO Revenge, Hero's Quest, E.T., Zork, Carmen San Diego, Fade to Black, Willie Beamish, Quest for Glory 2, Phantasmagoria, King's Quest, Roberta Williams, Prince of Persia, Karaketka, Jordan Mechner, One Must Fall, EverQuest, Custer's Revenge, Virtual Valerie, Danger Mouse, Isle of Dogs, Lenovo Explorer, Nintendo Labo, Far Cry 5, Burly Men at Sea, Oxenfree, Virginia, Nino Kuni 2, Sea of Thieves, Gangs of London, Overwatch: Retribution, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, I Hope, Minit, The Swords at Ditto, Immortal Redneck, DragoDino, Light Fall, Ori and the Blind Forest, Door Kickers: Action Squad, Raging Justice, Way of the Passive Fist, Pato Box, City of Brass, Avengers Infinity War, Venom, Universal Fancon, Discord, The Witcher and more.

MammothGamers, PS Vita, Switch, Breathe of the Wild, What Remains of Edith Finch, Ether1, Death Road to Canada, Anthem, Destiny, Struggle for Catan, Catan Jr., Ticket to Ride, Dragon's Wood, Secret Hitler, God of War, WestWorld, #GameStruck4, Doom, Monster Hunter, City of Heroes, Over the Top, Great Philadelphia ComiCon, Super Mario World, River Raid, WCW / NWO Revenge, Hero's Quest, E.T., Zork, Carmen San Diego, Fade to Black, Willie Beamish, Quest for Glory 2, Phantasmagoria, King's Quest, Roberta Williams, Prince of Persia, Karaketka, Jordan Mechner, One Must Fall, EverQuest, Custer's Revenge, Virtual Valerie, Danger Mouse, Isle of Dogs, Lenovo Explorer, Nintendo Labo, Far Cry 5, Burly Men at Sea, Oxenfree, Virginia, Nino Kuni 2, Sea of Thieves, Gangs of London, Overwatch: Retribution, Halo: The Master Chief Collection, I Hope, Minit, The Swords at Ditto, Immortal Redneck, DragoDino, Light Fall, Ori and the Blind Forest, Door Kickers: Action Squad, Raging Justice, Way of the Passive Fist, Pato Box, City of Brass, Avengers Infinity War, Venom, Universal Fancon, Discord, The Witcher,

Barlow says more indie games should use video, as independent developers have the freedom from lots of the constraints he thinks doomed the full - motion video (FMV) game genre on computers in the 1990s — games like Phantasmagoria and Night Trap starred real actors, but struggled for viability because of their relatively high budgets and a mixed reception to the kind of play experiences that game with them.

In many of my installations I have strived for the immersive experience that I imagine the phantasmagoria performances offered.

Swiss Institute and ARTBOOK invite you to join us for the launch of Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler, Since the late 1990s, artist Tony Oursler has amassed a vast personal archive of objects and ephemera relating to magic, the paranormal, film, television, phantasmagoria, pseudoscience and technology.

At least if you think of the power of advertising and promotion, what Walter Benjamin calls «phantasmagoria» — a world of illusions created by the mass media, in which modern people find models for their everyday behaviour but also their attitudes and prejudices, and even their deepest beliefs.

For over twenty five years, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery has championed the work of Alma Thomas, mounting two solo exhibitions: Alma Thomas: Phantasmagoria, Major Paintings from the 1970s (2001) and Alma Thomas: Moving Heaven & Earth, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1958 - 1978 (2015).

In approaching The Arcades Project (Harvard University Press) for the first time in earnest I explored Benjamin's use of «phantasmagoria,» traced it back through letters with Adorno, to Marx, to the 17th - century illusionistic «theatre of phantasmagoria,» and developed an essay about illusions created on social media for a journal tasked with addressing the rise of authoritarian populism around the globe.

The artists have participated in group shows at National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (forthcoming), Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) Derry ~ Londonderry, Northern Ireland, ExoExo, Paris, Podium, Oslo, Threads: A Phantasmagoria about Distance (curated by Nicolas Bourriaud), Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania, Valentin, Paris, Soy Capitan, Berlin, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden, CCS Bard / Hessel Museum of Art, New York, and ar / ge Kunst Gallery Museum, Bolzano, Italy.

Selected group exhi ¬ bi ¬ tions include Tools for Conviviality, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto (2012); Phantasmagoria, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver (2012); Ray - mond Boisjoly, Jordy Hamil ¬ ton, Laura Piasta: Stud ¬ ies in Decay, Or Gallery, Van ¬ cou ¬ ver (2012); House Sys ¬ tems: Fort Club, The Hedreen Gallery at Seat ¬ tle Uni ¬ ver ¬ sity, Seat ¬ tle (2010); and How Soon Is Now, Van ¬ cou ¬ ver Art Gallery (2009).

Look for paintings that filter Abstract Expressionism through SoCal atmospherics and for drawings in which ribald phantasmagorias emerge from the liveliest of lines.