EFTV - 193 - Tech & Delicate Machine
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This is f'sure an interesting one, and it's all thanks to Cynthia Amsden who came with an intriguing offer.... "do you want to speak with renowned filmmaker about his first ever graphic novel, AND electronic inspired album?".
Obviously, I emphatically said "YES", and went on a visual & sonic adventure, before sitting down for an expansive chat with the creative genius!!!
In this debut graphic novel, TECH, filmmaker Vincenzo Natali envisions a not-too-distant future in which mankind has cracked the code for alien engineering. Business is booming, but it's a dangerous occupation; a lowly courier Shel would've abandoned it long ago if not for her daughter's expensive medical treatments. Unbeknownst to Shel, the same secrets she's peddling on the black market are the very key to living the life she so desperately yearns for.
‘Delicate Machine’ contains nine tracks combining industrial sounds, synth and piano for a mixture of aggressive and ambient tones. The careful listener may find them reminiscent of some of the music in Natali’s films.
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Today we have:
Tech - Softcover Cover
Tech
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Softcover Release date: 19th September 2023
Hardcover Release date: 23rd October 2023
Written by: Vincenzo Natali
Drawn by: Vincenzo Natali
Genre: Crime, Drama, Noir, Sci-Fi
Pages: 200
Publisher: Encyclopocalypse Publications
Buy 'Tech' Hardcover via Encyclopocalypse Publications: Here.
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Buy 'Tech' via Comixology: Here.
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Delicate Machine - Album Cover
Delicate Machine
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Digital Release Date: 8th August 2024
Created by: Vincenzo Natali
Mixed by: Lawrence Nichols
Songs: 9
Genre: Ambient, Electronic, Techno
Running Time: 34 min
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Website: Here.
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Vincenzo Natali
Vincenzo Natali
Writer, Director, Producer, Editor, Cinematographer, Storyboard Artist, Artist, Musician, Actor
Filmmaker Vincenzo Natali is no stranger to dystopian storytelling; each of his six features thrusts ordinary characters into a dark realm governed by seemingly impenetrable logic and follows the subjects as they struggle to come to terms with their environs. Through his creative endeavors, Natali shows a passionate study of the human condition and our place in the universe.
This narrative has also carried over into his television work including his last two releases: Cabinet Of Curiosities, from acclaimed Academy Award-winning filmmaker and creator, executive producer and co-showrunner Guillermo del Toro, a curated collection of unprecedented and genre-defining stories meant to challenge our traditional notions of horror. For the series, del Toro personally chose Natali to write and direct an episode. Entitled “Graveyard Rats,” it stars David Hewlett (a recurring presence in Natali’s projects since he was 16 years old) and was adapted by Natali based on a short story by Henry Kuttner. The series launched on Netflix on October 25.
The Peripheral for Amazon reunited him with Executive Producers Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan with whom he worked on Westworld. Natali serves as an executive producer and director (4 episodes) on the new series. The show’s story centers on Flynne Fisher (Chloë Grace Moretz), a woman trying to hold together the pieces of her broken family in a forgotten corner of tomorrow's America. Flynne is smart, ambitious, and doomed. She has no future. Until the future comes calling for her. The Peripheral is master storyteller William Gibson’s dazzling, hallucinatory glimpse into the fate of mankind — and what lies beyond.
Natali burst onto the scene in 1997 with his surreal, low-budget sci-fi thriller, Cube. This enigmatic film weaves a tale of a group of people clamoring to escape from an obscure cubic labyrinth where a casual misstep results in full dismemberment by the cube itself. The film impressed viewers and critics alike with Natali’s ability to stretch cinematic boundaries on a shoestring budget, and became a cult favorite.
Natali’s 2002 follow-up, Cypher, starred Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu in the tale of a man who assumes a new identity in preparation for an espionage career, but instead gets systematically brainwashed and finds himself engulfed in a shaky, paranoid reality. The film performed well internationally and paved the way for 2003’s Nothing. Described by Natali as “a buddy comedy set in a void,” the film follows two eccentrics who literally wish the world out of existence and end up in a limitless white landscape. Natali then shot a documentary on Terry Gilliam’s production of Tideland, which premiered concurrently with the feature in 2005. He also contributed a segment, Quartier de la Madeleine, to the 2006 portmanteau film, Paris Je T'aime.
His fourth feature Splice received a wide release by Warner Bros in summer 2010. It starred Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley as two rebellious scientists who defy ethical boundaries to forge ahead with a dangerous genetic experiment, resulting in a new organism. The creature rapidly develops into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators -- only to have that bond turn deadly.
Natali’s fifth film was the 2013 supernatural thriller Haunter starring Abigail Breslin. 2014 found him shooting episodes of the Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal and producing his first television series, Darknet. He has since directed episodes of the aforementioned Westworld, American Gods and The Stand.
His most recent feature was an adaptation Stephen King and Joe Hill’s novella, In The Tall Grass. After hearing a young boy's cry for help, a sister and brother venture into a vast field of tall grass in Kansas but soon discover there may be no way out...and that something evil lurks within. The film premiered on Netflix in 2019 and starred Patrick Wilson, Laysla De Oliveira, and Avery Whitted.
A Directors Guild of Canada award winner, Natali’s films have won multiple international awards. This year’s FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL in Montreal will present him with their Trailblazer Award. He is based in Toronto.
Follow Vincenzo via:
IMDb: Here.
Website: Here.
Instagram: @@vincenzopolis
Watch Vincenzo's films via Apple TV+: Here.
Watch Vincenzo's films via Prime Video: Here.
Watch Vincenzo's films via Prime Video UK: Here.
*(Music)
'Intrigued' (Instrumental) by EPMD - 2020