Cthulhu Cthursday: Between The Stars
Posted by Ross Rosenberg
A short film from 1998 by director Djie Han Thung based upon an even shorter novel fragment by H.P. Lovecraft titled “Azathoth” — which bears a resemblance to The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath — Between the Stars is a meditative and quintessentially German film about a man who seeks to escape from the drudgery of his meaningless existence.
Between the Stars [YouTube] : Under Vhoorl’s Shadow : Grim Reviews
Categories: Cthulhu Cthursday, Lovecraft, Short Film
Posted at 1:17 pm on April 23, 2009
7 Comments -
oh, f’tagn!
please, more german expressionist lovecraft shorts!
here’s one called Experiment 17:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wNgXVPCrjI
there are others on the cthutubes, but i can’t say if they’re all worth watching
Comment by haux — April 23, 2009 @ 2:23 pm
This is Dutch.
Comment by Gestalt — April 23, 2009 @ 2:58 pm
trippy!
Comment by Aelix E. — April 23, 2009 @ 10:14 pm
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Pingback by PLANET://DAMAGE » Blog Archive » dije han thung - azathoth — April 24, 2009 @ 10:36 am
Nice short! As commented, it’s Dutch, not German. Most painful of all is the spelling error in the book featuring Lovecraft’s _The Descendant_: “Fear has it’s grisly claw…”
It certainly has.
Comment by merle — April 25, 2009 @ 3:20 pm
yes, yes.
not german. and not even expressionist.
but i can want more, can’t i?
indeed, the horror is in the details – there’s no way that a close up of the actual printing of type would show those crisp details. more of the ink bleeding into the paper, and of the impression of the plate slightly pillowing the paper at the edges of the character.
no dearth of pedants in this corner of the tubes, is there?
Comment by haux — April 27, 2009 @ 12:43 pm
I really liked this. This is Dutch, yes, but the artist’s name indicates that he may be the child of a Vietnamese emigrant to Holland. Today there are Vietnamese-Danes, Vietnamese-Dutch, Vietnamese-younameits, all making more than their share to the cultures of their various nations. Hooray for them.
Comment by Mogo The Mugger — May 6, 2009 @ 8:49 pm