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Time Is Shaped Like a Labyrinth

Mr. Samuel's Teatime Stories for Good Kids & Confused Adults is a short film in 4 parts by Yara Asmar, a musician, puppeteer, and filmmaker from Beirut. The creator describes it so: "In a wonky universe set within the fake walls of an old abandoned children's TV show, Mr Samuel and his friends -peculiar, ugly puppets navigating the strange thing that is time- attempt to make sense of it all through stories, songs and arduous loops of nonsensical chores."

Asmar continues: Zizek's book 'The Parallax View' begins with a description of the first use of modern art as a method of psychotechnic torture: French anarchist Laurencic's 'colored cells'. "The cells were as inspired by ideas of geometric abstraction and surrealism as they were by avant-garde art theories on the psychological properties of colors... the walls, which were curved and covered with mind-altering patterns of cubes, squares, straight lines, and spirals which utilized tricks of color, perspective, and scale to cause mental confusion and distress." Yes, it's a film in 4 parts, but the total running time is a hair under 30 minutes. This is focusing on a particular project of Asmar's, but look around her website; there's a lot of other things there. Here's an interview on her music. A short video analyzing the project by YouTuber Night Mind.
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