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The Animatrix: Adding to the Trilogy

Unless you are a recent arrival on the planet or you have been off-world exploring rotanium ore deposits on Comtron Nine, then I dont have to tell you what The Matrix is. And, Im certain you know what The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions are. But what in the name of Morpheus is The Animatrix? If you guessed that its an animated version of The Matrix, you guessed the obvious, and you guessed wrong. Its not an animated feature at all, but rather a series of nine animated short films, created in anime style to be released as a collection on DVD and VHS by Warner Home Video June 3, But you don't have to wait until June to begin to view The Animatrix shorts, you can begin viewing the first of four of them online at The Website started streaming The Second Renaissance Part 1 on February 4th and will continue with The Second Renaissance Part 2, Program and Detective Story through May. Another sequence, The Final Flight of the Osiris, will be released in theatres on March 21, at the head of the new feature Dreamcatcher.

Available on DVD and VHS on June 3rd, The Animatrix features nine short films.

Beyond The Matrix

These feature quality short animated films, each between six and seventeen minutes long are not a rehash of any of the live-action Matrix features nor are they based on a given storyline. Instead they tell new stories set in that futuristic virtual world created by the Wachowski brothers, Andy and Larry. Viewers of The Animatrix will learn new details of the genesis of The Matrix and meet new characters whose adventures are inter-woven with the fabric of all three feature films.

The Wachowski brothers vision for The Matrix is one that extends far beyond the theatrical trilogy, and the

The Twenty-First Century|

POETRY

“We were roaches in those days retreating into the walls,” the first poem in Jacob Eigen’s first book begins. “Or we were fish inside a tank in Chinatown.” These are New York tales, complete with snow on a windowsill in Queens, surreal encounters with Russians, and the art of “Balancing / the takeout on your handlebars.” Eigen, who dedicates the book to Louise Glück, shares his teacher’s precision. So a ball, at mini golf, rolls through the last pipe with “a saddish, being-swallowed sound.” I myself made such a sound when I read one of the book’s droll summations: “The time after college is over.”

M.Z.

All Fours|

NOVEL

The premise of this National Book Award nominee could have been a story overheard at a wine bar in Park Slope: a perimenopausal woman’s gut-churning sexual obsession with a younger man leads to the loosening (then the liberatory breaking) of the marriage bond. Miranda July, in her second novel, openly plunders her own experiences, such as getting a personal trainer and consciously uncoupling from her husband, and adds the kind of details present in her films (the erstwhile lover works at Hertz, we are repeatedly told) to quirk an old story up. I was shocked to learn that the book was not satirizing its own ideas of marriage, womanhood, and art, which feel — to this reader, at least — like the insights delivered, with brittle, messianic goodwill, by women who believe having an affair or getting a divorce makes them revolutionaries.

E.G.

“Houdini” |

SINGLE

Were any of the eponymous magician’s famous illusions as impressive as year-old Eminem’s ability to make rapping over a minimally altered, slightly obscure rock song sound somehow vibrant? On a promo video call with David Blaine, Eminem said his “last trick” would be to “make my career disappear.” If this single is any indicator, he hasn’t succeeded yet.

J.G.

Dogue|

MAGAZINE

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Best Movies of First Viewings & Discoveries and Individual Ballots
As a filmmaker, I’ve always been interested in bending the genre between narrative, experimental, and documentary and trying new techniques with sound and the experience of frequencies and vibration. This year was good for viewing and listening to new works, both shorts and features.

The Tuba Thieves, Alison O’Daniel, This film and filmmaker have entirely changed how I think about the perception of sound and sonic vibrations and how I thought about captioning films as I prepared the restoration of my feature film Compensation.

Gems seen at the New York Film Festival – Thank you programmers! Great year!
Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, , Madeline Hunt-Erhlich (so beautiful, inventive and resourceful)

Currents Shorts Program 1: The Will to Change – This program needs to travel
Black Glass, , Adam Piron. The way Adam used music in this film to enhance the story of Muybridge’s staged stereographs documenting the US Army’s war against the Modoc tribe in Northern California was so powerful; can’t stop thinking about it.
Man number 4, , Miranda Pennell – a representation from Gaza that made us stop & rethink
An All-Around Feel Good, , Jordan Lord – notions of belonging pushed to the limits!
The Deep West Assembly, , Cauleen Smith One of the best filmmakers alive right now, period. This work is everything. Performance, music, history, image, it has it all.

Insurgent Sisters: Women of the L.A. Rebellion & Beyond (all of the films were excellent; special shoutout to Matazi Weathers and LACMA for the program; classics by Julie Dash, Alile Sharon Larkin, Barbara McCullough & ayo Makarah. New works by Garrett Bradley, Sophia Nahli Allison & Rikki Wright; particular resonance for me was
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Exhibiting Forgiveness, , Titus Kaphar (My favorite actor, John Earl Je

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