Emissaries from the Void

LIMINAL: Ben & Arthur

Ben & Arthur (2002) Queer history, bumpy escalation, the eclipse of niche filmmaking by YouTube and social media

LIMINAL: Hard to Be a God BONUS content

Cutting room floor segments from our episode on Hard to Be a God (2013). This is a sample of the extras we upload regularly for those who patronize us on Ko-fi.com/emissariesfromthevoid — includes comparisons to other films and video games and an extended cut of Ari’s leftist rant.

Bad God (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover) - S1E21

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989) —  Consumption, appreciation, waste, taste, charlatans, toxic generosity, Albert as God, God as manager, Albert as State, Georgina as Sophia, healthy masculinity, assigning blame for original sin, denied resurrection CW: Sexual assault, disgusting imagery, pervasive cruelty

Sad God (Hard to Be a God) - S01E20

Hard to Be a God (2013) —  The gray to black pipeline, pain worship, paper isn't power, Arkanar as mask-off Western civilization, anarchist philosophy, The Enlightenment didn't fix our core problems, what would you have God do?, supremacist thinking, wasted efforts, desolate beauty.   CW: Blood, implied sexual abuse, and pervasive cruelty.

LIMINAL: Mike and Melissa

Why a purple skunk? Proto inceldom, amateur art, art in the face of the Internet, monsterfucker furry venn diagram, outsider art, trying to save what we watch.