The Quixote Syndrome, May 26, 2014
The Nine Circles of Hell for Millenials
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. This is a dead zone. (Effing AT&T…)
– Dante Alighier-ish
“Dante’s Divine Comedy was written in the 14th century with his uber-Catholic, Italian counterparts in mind. While the allegory of the afterlife lives on in modern culture, the Inferno would probably look slightly different were it typed out on an iPad. Behold: The nine circles of hell for the basic millennial” –Laura Stampler, “The Nine Circles of Hell for Millenials”, Time Magazine, July 30, 2014.
Divine Comédie, Simon Côté-Lapointe (2014)
Divine Comédie is an experimental film released in 2014, featuring music and video imagery by Simon Côté-Lapointe. The artist himself describes the film as follows: “This adaptation of Dante Divine Comédie is a oniric musical trip without words, a thrilling experimental mix of animation, video art and imagination combining 2D and 3D animation, video art and puppetry as well as electronic, electroacoustic and acoustic music.”
The trailer and two versions of the film (both the full-length film and a shorter version) are available to watch on YouTube.
For more information on the film and its creators, see the website here.
Contributed by Simon Côté-Lapointe, Université de Montréal
As Above, So Below (2014)
The thriller film As Above, So Below features a journey to the catacombs below Paris – and a Dantesque passage.
The wall above the entry to this passage reads, “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.”
Contributed by Erik Anderson, Hargrave Military Academy ’15
The Eleventh Circle of Hell
“Hi. We are a married couple, let’s call us Sally and Jimmy. We’re going to write about the messed up insane treatment my family receives from my extended family – mother, father, sister + son. This is Jimmy, by the way.
“Tonight, I was at work. Sally picked me up and was crying. Our car had broken down at a friend’s house last night.
“This morning was hell; our son was very hard to deal with getting ready for school. then there’s the guilt my mom throws in about getting the kid a haircut. She paid for my sister’s son’s haircut; took him there, too. She didn’t offer the same for our son.” — TYPEOGRAPHIE, The Eleventh Circle, September 4, 2014
Read the rest of the article here.
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