A megalith rises from a sandy desert – or rather, a scale model of such a landscape. “I am the archive”, says a young female voice while ominous string music nails viewers to their seats. This opening sets the stage for the narrative and figurative language of Rithy Panh’s dense mnemonic essay which uses stunning dioramas to tell a twenty-first century dystopian story. After a century of genocidal ideologies and destructive speciesism, animals have enslaved humans and taken over the world. In a wave of hope, the statues of the past have been removed but new ones are being erected to suppress the will of the people. This is now a planet of apes, boars and lions, and a zoological revolution is reversing and recreating the atrocities of the 20th century. As animal figures watch the film archives of our world, it feels as if Lumière has been transported into a film by Méliès or Willis H. O’Brien. We are all well aware that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as a farce. The time has now come for this farce, in which “political language inhabits our dreams and consumes us”, to allow the possibility of a “graceful and tender insubordination” to emerge.
History宣布直接预订10集UFO题材剧《蓝皮书 Blue Book》,该剧由David O’Leary执笔,根据现实美国空军的研究计划所改篇,背景50-60年代。在当时美国兴起一股UFO的热潮,美国空军为调查UFO而成立了蓝皮书计划/Project Blue Book来作相关研究。 剧集讲述一个聪明的大学教授J. Allen Hynek被空军招揽,并由他处理蓝皮书计划中多达数千的未解案件,每一集皆会引用真实的案件,把UFO事件与美国那段具神秘感的历史结合起来。