{"id":23776,"date":"2023-12-11T16:30:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T16:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=23776"},"modified":"2023-12-11T18:51:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T18:51:20","slug":"from-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/12\/11\/from-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"From Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/beyond.jpg\" alt=\"beyond.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nothing to do with the HP Lovecraft story of the same name, this <em>From Beyond<\/em> is a short science-fiction film directed by Fredrik S. Hana: &#8220;A kaleidoscopic vision portraying mankind\u2019s first meeting with alien life, told through faux archival footage combined with practical FX, miniatures and old school in-camera trickery.&#8221; Since I compiled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/01\/16\/strange-adventures-a-film-list\/\">the big list<\/a> of unusual, offbeat, experimental, etc SF films earlier this year I&#8217;ve been keeping an eye out for further examples. <em>From Beyond<\/em> would certainly qualify. Watch it at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l-la8hjluvs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/879750659\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tip to this one came via Scotto Moore&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/buttondown.email\/scottomoore\/archive\/47-someones-been-eating-from-the-friendship-cake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Newsletter Cannot Save You<\/a> which I added to my RSS feed recently, and which is full of more links to interesting short films. And the link to Scotto Moore came via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burningshore.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erik Davis<\/a>. Thanks, Erik!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing to do with the HP Lovecraft story of the same name, this From Beyond is a short science-fiction film directed by Fredrik S. Hana: &#8220;A kaleidoscopic vision portraying mankind\u2019s first meeting with alien life, told through faux archival footage combined with practical FX, miniatures and old school in-camera trickery.&#8221; Since I compiled the big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2023\/12\/11\/from-beyond\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Beyond&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,20],"tags":[1686,13208,13209],"class_list":["post-23776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-science-fiction","tag-erik-davis","tag-fredrik-s-hana","tag-scotto-moore"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-6bu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}