Compost of Ideas – The Podcast from the Bin

Death & Immortality in Cinema - Lab of Immortality


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This is the second chapter in the trilogy on death, imagination, and the dream of immortality — based on my university thesis on science-fiction cinema.

In this episode, we enter the laboratory of imagination: the world of science fiction.
A place where faith and reason merge, where scientists become modern priests, and where every invention hides an ancient longing — to live longer, to love longer, to outlast time itself.

From Frankenstein to Blade Runner, from Solaris to 2001: A Space Odyssey, this episode explores how cinema has turnedscience into a language of transcendence — and how, when we try to defeat death, we end up inventing myth.

Referenced:

  • Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
  • Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris (1972), Stalker (1979)
  • Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • Steven Spielberg, A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Minority Report (2002)
  • Ridley Scott, Blade Runner (1982)
  • Abel Gance, J’accuse (1919)
  • Edgar Morin
  • Giuseppe O. Longo
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Compost of Ideas – The Podcast from the BinBy samara.croci