The films beneath the Machine

The Films

Alongside the written canon runs a shorter line of films: the gothic, apocalyptic, and dream-logic cinema that sets the platform’s mood as much as any painting or poem. These are works of darkness and imagination, of worlds remade and unmade, of fiction that refuses to stay on the page.

Every film here is still in copyright, so nothing is hosted on this page, no posters, no clips, no streams. Each title is named and linked to a reference for anyone who wants to seek it out.

Apocalypse NowFrancis Ford Coppola · 1979The descent upriver as a journey out of the world and into the dark.About the film →
The Neverending StoryWolfgang Petersen · 1984Fantasia eaten away by the Nothing: imagination as the last thing worth saving.About the film →
Bram Stoker's DraculaFrancis Ford Coppola · 1992Love, death, and decadence rendered in full operatic gothic.About the film →
In the Mouth of MadnessJohn Carpenter · 1994Fiction bleeding into reality until neither can be told apart.About the film →
Dark CityAlex Proyas · 1998A city remade every midnight; memory and self made of nothing fixed.About the film →

The canon →← Back to the Machine

The films beneath the Machine

The Films

Every film here is still in copyright, so nothing is hosted on this page, no posters, no clips, no streams. Each title is named and linked to a reference for anyone who wants to seek it out.

Apocalypse NowFrancis Ford Coppola · 1979The descent upriver as a journey out of the world and into the dark.About the film →
The Neverending StoryWolfgang Petersen · 1984Fantasia eaten away by the Nothing: imagination as the last thing worth saving.About the film →
Bram Stoker's DraculaFrancis Ford Coppola · 1992Love, death, and decadence rendered in full operatic gothic.About the film →
In the Mouth of MadnessJohn Carpenter · 1994Fiction bleeding into reality until neither can be told apart.About the film →
Dark CityAlex Proyas · 1998A city remade every midnight; memory and self made of nothing fixed.About the film →

The canon →← Back to the Machine