Sentences with word «phantasmagoria»

Following in the noble tradition of Killer 7 and No More Heroes, Suda 51's latest video game phantasmagoria of crazy characters, intense action, and blood spray galore is Killer is Dead: An unhinged story set in the near - future where cybernetic implants are the norm and assassin work is quite the lucrative business.

In many of the works included in Phantasmagoria, shadows are used to allude to death, the obscure, and the unnamable, and to construct allegories of loss and disappearance.

He has exhibited at the Instituto Cultural de Cabanas in Guadalajara, Mexico, a career survey at the University of California, San Diego, site specific Phantasmagoria at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles and Raging Opulence at The San Jose Art Museum, the 2013 California - Pacific Triennial at OCMA, Newport Beach, California, plus numerous other exhibitions in New York, Tokyo, Paris, London, Berlin and Bern, Switzerland.

Luckily, Hall is given inspiration in his dreams by a long string of black - and - white phantasmagorias which feature a mysterious pale buck - toothed 13 - year - old named V (Elle Fanning), the endless details of a child mass murder committed either a few months ago or in 1955 (it's never really made clear) by a local children's minister (Anthony Fusco), as well as actual practical writing advice from no less than Edgar Allen Poe (Ben Chaplin, sporting an implacable accent).

Phantasmagoria includes works by contemporary artists who create ghostly images to reflect on notions of absence and loss, using spectral effects and immaterial mediums such as shadows, fog, mist, and breath.

So long after games like Phantasmagoria and Night Trap wowed us with the fact that we were playing actual humans.

Insert Disk collects Phantasmagoria for the PC.

In these abstract phantasmagorias with their aqueous layers of vibrant, pulsating color, Grosse's painterly gestures and the inverted chromatic zones that arise from her use of stencils of vaguely biomorphic form assert entirely new spatial and temporal transformations.

The mix of references led one of Korea's most renowned critics to describe Choi as «a wicked Buddhist monk who creates phantasmagoria».

Within an unassuming natural wood frame, Kelley has interspersed a variety of cast - off materials — old buttons, earrings, seashells, beads, and other assorted knickknacks — Memory Ware # 37 is a visual phantasmagoria made tangible.

Headlined «How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality,» the dense, scabrous cartoon phantasmagoria features floating heads of the various players, from a leering Joannou and a grinning Koons, to dealer Gavin Brown (pictured saying «OK, I admit that the New Museum does look a little bit like my bitch, but it is all based on merit»), as well as bloggers like James Wagner and Green, and a saintly caricature of New Museum founder Marcia Tucker.

Published to accompany the traveling exhibition Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence, this book features works by twelve contemporary artists from various parts of the world who reflect upon the fleeting nature of physicality — on disappearance and loss, ghosts and shadows.

Anyone familiar with the Eastern Christian world knows that the Orthodox view of the Catholic Church is often a curious mélange of fact, fantasy, cultural prejudice, sublime theological misunderstanding, resentment, reasonable disagreement, and unreasonable dread: it sees a misty phantasmagoria of crusades, predestination, «modalism,» a God of wrath, flagellants, Grand Inquisitors, and those blasted Borgias.

Yates stages some eye - catching set - pieces, enhanced by a wonderful production design (take a bow, Stuart Craig) mingling Mervyn Peake, Lewis Carroll and the spindly phantasmagoria of Ronald Searle.

The film undermines the unity of its characterizations, redirecting into garish phantasmagoria.

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

But, lamentably, Siggi's collection lacks the holy grail of phallic phantasmagoria: a human specimen.

I got Phantasmagoria, with Catherin Zeta Jones [which sort of made up for all of it].

An enchanting re-imagining of «Beauty and the Beast,» it is an unforgettably romantic, utterly sublime, dazzling phantasmagoria.

Touted as «Maddin's ultimate epic phantasmagoria,» «The Forbidden Room» centers around a doomed submarine crew who encounter a lost woodsman and hear his tale of escaping from a fearsome clan of cave dwellers.

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.

The seventh book in author J.K. Rowling's wizard phantasmagoria, Deathly Hallows has been chopped into two feature films to capture the full lung capacity of the material, and perhaps yank some additional box office coin along the way.

The other actors make equally little impression in this gorgeous phantasmagoria, whether they are good (Richard E Grant), indifferent (Winona Ryder) or plain bad (Keanu Reeves as Harker, speaking as if English vowels had been injected into his gums during a painful session at the dentist's).

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

It parallels Jaromil Jireš's Valerie and her Week of Wonders in its tale of budding sex and the surreal phantasmagoria that explodes in the imagination around such a thing.

It is, in any analysis, a visually - striking phantasmagoria that doesn't shirk from a sense of danger in the occasional murder or noble sacrifice.

And while the cinematic phantasmagoria is more interesting than any psychological reading or narrative understanding, it's like mainlining decades of giallo highlights in a single screening.

Ferrer's conjuring of romantic Indochine is a journey that lures, stirring up ghosts in a wild phantasmagoria, reckoning with forces both entwined and eternal.»

But in its newest edition, there was a good deal of the former and less and less phantasmagoria.

Nothing on the steam store page lets people know except the user defined tags and — for the older gamers — homage paid to old games such as Phantasmagoria which was released in 1995.

Sierra's donated items include concept art, correspondence, and original copies of some of the company's best - known titles, along with curiosities like the King's Quest VII and Phantasmagoria player's guide pictured above.

Launched with a lot of surrounding hype, Phantasmagoria proved to be a best - seller.

His sprawling, hyper - detailed works are cartoonish phantasmagorias of various types of personal and civil aggression, representing a personal and national psyche affected by violence.

This story reveals — behind the glamour and dark phantasmagoria of Barney's work — the picture of a Renaissance artist physically engaged in the chemistry, labor, and construction of his creations.

The second presentation of Blackbox will be an exhibition entitled Phantasmagoria, an immersive video experience of «hybrid films» by Ranu Mukherjee.

(Total phantasmagoria: in front of me, a timid child sought reassurance from his dad that it wasn't really a ghost.)

While this main installation recalls an ongoing body of research into the 18th - century phantasmagoria shows of Jean - Gaspard Robertson — as first seen in Oursler's iconic piece, The Influence Machine (2002) commissioned by Artangel and restaged at Tate Modern in 2013 — another new series situates these reconfigured faces squarely in the context of the 21st century.

Influenced by Joseph Beuys, the American «bad painting» movement, punk rock and popular culture, tattoos, advertising, trash aesthetic, and more, Bouthillette has created a mischievous and irreverent phantasmagoria of sights and sounds.

Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Phantasmagoria.

«We live entirely, ©, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the «ideas» with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.»

«It's about disembodiment,» said Anderson, who has turned one of her galleries into a black - light phantasmagoria of painted figures and words — the beginning of stories that viewers can explore virtually once they don their VR headsets.

She dresses in conservative black pants suits and speaks in a quiet, frank tone — qualities that might render her one of the least noticeable presences in the flashy phantasmagoria of the Frieze Art Fair.

In line with this theme, this year we have the The Breeder showing works by Gina Beavers, Slater Bradley, Angelo Plessas and Theo Triantafyllidis that explore «post-Internet» reality and its limits, and Taro Nasu's (Tokyo) The Age of New Phantasmagoria, exploring perception in the age of virtual and augmented realities, with Koichi Enomoto, Djordje Ozbolt and Simon Fujiwara.

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