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Have you ever watched this strange found footage? — The first time ALT236 met Raphael Cherkaski, they were both students in the Beaux Arts in Paris. The French YouTuber and musician distinctly recalls having been drawn towards Raph because he was wearing weird contraptions. Those contraptions were weight Raphael, RAF, explained to ALT236 were an artistic project the young…

Since the Roe v Wade debacle, I’ve been wondering about abortion a lot… — Picture me in this medieval tower. The entrance has been transformed into a conference hall by adding seats. There’s a video projector, a small table and a computer sitting in front of us. The lecturer is this old woman, dressed sharp in bright colors, for outside the heat of May…

A father goes hiking with his infant daughter. — He brought the girl along with him. She was six. All around, the bugs would crash in the lazy leaves, rustiling with this faint breeze that sounded like the rain. His daughter, she said: “It’s not water coming from the trees, Pop, it’s caterpillars.” It was true, the insects, they…

Anita Rocha da Silveira pobably made MY 2022 film of the year with her second feature. — Movie begins with a woman lying, a black background. The lights that pour on her are red and green and blue. She suddenly bridges her back and begins to sway her hips. Head upside down, a hypnotic dance. Anita Roca da Silveira says that this intro stemmed from two things…

Do you think it’s possible to make a Matrix sequel in your garage? Seth Ickerman sure did. — Ever since they realized how much they fucked up Savristi and Raphaël have been doing is rotoscoping. …

Funny how life goes. You grow old, if you’re lucky enough, you try and analyse yourself. Your flaws. Why you do things the way you do. — Sure, you can also drown yourself in a routine and never really think about such a thing. I get that. I really do. I sometimes do it too. Most of the time I prefer to try and grasp at my shortcomings, though. Even more so since I noticed that a…

Did you know Frederick Raynal never worked on the sequel to Alone in the Dark, but in 2015, chose to make a new survival horror? — It’s been more than ten years since Frederick Raynal released a video game. No, that ain’t true, the legendary game designer tries to comfort himself. Since his DreamCast adventure, Raynal certainly went through a drought, but he developed on his own a bunch of HTML games. …

Automatic fiction about vampires, anyone? — It is my belief that the origin myth of the vampires was tarnished from the very beginning. Think about it. People from Prussia claiming the dead were rising, deceased they’d known, stealing their life force? Poor on poor murder? It’s really no wonder the legend spread so fast over Europe…

The 22nd will see the realease of the Sundance sensation on HBO Max. — The screen splashes a blue aura onto the basement walls, onto the dusty keyboard, onto the teenage boy’s face. Right now, in 2002, he’s talking with his friends, attempting to ignore the messages from WAJ that continue to pop-up with an alarming frequency. The boy is twelve, WAJ over twenty…