SERIES
PHILIP K. DICK / 'ELECTRIC DREAMS'. Think for a moment about Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror . They already know dystopian and inevitable futures for a present so hooked on its most intimate technological excess that there is nothing left to do but surrender. Or commit suicide. Well, Electric dreams is basically that, but the other way around. That is to say, essentially optimistic or, if necessary, provocatively humanistic. The Prime series is devoted in 10 chapters to reviewing the universe by visionary force of the man from which Blade runner emerged, for example. And he does it with a waste of media and a cast so brilliant (Bryan Cranston, Steve Buscemi or Vera Farmiga) that it overwhelms. It is true that lack of definition poisons a good part of a narrative with a slight tendency to get lost nowhere. But it does not matter. What counts is the pleasure of getting excited about a future that, after all, is not so bad.
PHILIP K. DICK 2 / 'THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE'. It is curious that this adaptation of the addictive American author coincides with the premiere of The Plot Against America , on the text by Philip Roth . The two, from opposite positions, reconstruct an alternative reality in which Nazism triumphed (or almost). What is impressive now is the precision in giving body and image to that other parallel universe , Aryan and sour . The plot is confusing (or just bad); the rest, of a sinister clarity. Or subjugating. In Prime.
SIMON STALENHAG / 'LOOP STORIES'. A whole series inspired by some drawings, those of Simon Stalenhag . What follows are eight chapters of a story organized in a beautiful puzzle so patterned and far from the frantic conventions of the series to the use that hypnotizes. Atypical and, while we're at it, slightly philipkdickiana . / LUIS MARTÍNEZ
ART
CAM / COVID ART MUSEUM. A digital museum with works by artists from around the world. From Russia, Ellen Sheidlin with her ironic montages. From Tokyo, Tanaka Tatsuya with her miniature prints. From New York, the iconic Chris Ware cover for The newyorker. From India, Ranga Krishnamani with an allegory of us trapped in an hourglass. The Covid Art Museum was born on Instagram to collect all the art that revolves around the coronavirus and confinement, an initiative of some Spanish advertisers that is already going viral.
AUCTION / PIJAMA ARMY. An auction, but on Instagram. The works have a starting price and are bid in the comments of the photo (it can also be done anonymously via private message). Under the slogan Puja in pajamas , fight against the coronavirus, the Creativos Contra Coronavirus collective has mounted a peculiar solidarity initiative: artists donate their works and everything that is collected is donated to stop the pandemic. Photographs, posters, illustrations ... Even the sculptor of the moment Carla Cascales (who stopped designing for Nike or Louis Vuitton to dedicate herself to art) has donated a beautiful work: Klein Nude.
ALTERNATIVE / PANZINE. A hooligan fanzine of a lifetime but without the romantic staple, in digital format (what remedy): that's Panzine , the confined fanzine. Made by willing cartoonists and writers to bring a smile to those who read it. Bullets of black humor, virulent texts, a questionnaire of the pandemic (type that of Proust but in short and for apocalyptic days) to which illustrators, cynical stories about the virus, black and white photos, drawings between gore and pretty ( like the decapitated Batman of Miguel Ángel Martín ) ... The typical of a fanzine but pandemic. / VANESSA GRAELL
BOOKS
POETRY / EMILY DICKINSON. Imposed confinement is always a condemnation, but in the history of literature there were extraordinary creators who raised their work in a voluntary confinement (whatever the reasons) and made that solitude a way of being in the world. One of the best examples is that of the American poet Emily Dickinson. She spent almost a decade voluntarily locked in her room. And there he wrote the almost 2,000 poems that give shape to his total poetry. It was learned of her after her death, when her sister unveiled those pages where the young and silent Emily forged a new way of interpreting the world. The publisher Visor, in an excellent translation by José Luis Rey, gathers all her writing.
TALES / JUAN CARLOS ONETTI. Almost two decades passed, in his bed, by will, the Uruguayan writer Juan Carlos Onetti, one of the main lighthouses of the generation of the Latin American boom. Another exile from normality, by vocation and by destiny. Onetti's stories (also extraordinary novelist) have an amazing concentration of living language. Alfaguara gathered in a volume the author's complete stories. One of the best options for this confinement. The prologue of the edition is by Juan Villoro .
POETRY / HUGO MUJICA. The intensity of the poems of the Argentine poet Hugo Mujica owes much to the experience of confinement. For eight years he embraced vows of poverty and silence as a Trappist monk, after having lived through the years of psychedelic debauchery in California. His latest book published in Spain is To the Stars, the Immense (Visor). An experience of intensity. / ANTONIO LUCAS
CINEMA IN HOLY WEEK
FOR BELIEVERS / 'ORDET'. I imagine you fed up with movie recommendations to watch now that we are out of Easter. Well, one more. Never before and never after, the cinema approached that which time has called the mystery of life as in the undoubtedly sacred scene with which it closes the most contradictory, sensorially ascetic and itself miraculous work of which it has been cinema capable: Ordet, the word . Suddenly, the miracle of the resurrection acquires the almost childish touch of the everyday, of the near, of the non-transferable personal, perfectly shared and common. What Carl Theodor Dreyer achieves in this magnetic, sleepwalking and perfect visual poem is the reconstruction from within the very meaning of the image. It is cinema for believers, for believers in the cinema itself, of course. In Filmin.
FOR AGNOSTICS / 'HABEMUS PAPAM'. Being singled out for the highest of companies and realizing that life is too short. And absurd. Nanni Moretti locks a newly elected Pope of Rome in the labyrinth of a common man, an excuse like any other to talk about what matters to him: the common of man. What remains is a movie designed for doubt, for life. Also on Filmin.
FOR ATHEISTS / 'ANTICHRIST'. "Chaos reigns" says a strange creature when everything seems lost. And from there, from that fleeting animal declaration, Lars Von Trier composes the most radical of all his radical films. In the middle of the forest a couple tries to recover from the death of a son. As if that were possible. What follows is a journey to the bottom of all funds, an absolute surrender from which it is impossible to recover. Without God. / LUIS MARTÍNEZ
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