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The Left Hand of Darkness
2019 · Film · short · 4 min
Directed by Sara Bonaventura
The piece is inspired by Le Guin's novel and by Vasulkas' lesson. A tribute to both of them. It looks like a drawing exercise but, recording in real time my left hand, the right hand was not holding a pencil but rather adjusting knobs and patching oscillators, of a Jones Raster Scan, similar to the Rutt Etra Scan Processor, but one of a kind built by Dave Jones for Sara Hornbacher. It looks easy, but it is not so comfortable, rather a process of prosthetization in which a very familiar part of the body becomes alien, sucked by the uncanny vortex of the machines, in which we believe to see a glimpse of creation, when two index fingers touch each others, but the triangulation ends up with a unsettling unity, summed up with an idiom, in Mandarin: 孤掌难鸣 meaning something like It’s hard to clap with only one hand.
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Strongly disagree. Why two Orson Scott Card books of only nine? Surely Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness" gives a better sampling of what science fiction can encompass.
Similarly, why two H. G. Wells books? Yes, both are classics, but if the goal is to read the classics of SF then Heinlein's "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" would again give a better sampling of SF history.
IMO, "Jurassic Park" is more a thriller with science fiction elements. (Another would be "The Hunt for Red October".) While the movie won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, I don't think the book received much in the way of SF award recognition.
I would think Liu's "The Three-Body Problem" or something else more recent than 1999 would also be more appropriate for a beginner than the many old books listed.