Monochromator magagzine

Monochromator is a film magazine which deconstructs selected films under a shared monochrome to reconstruct them for social relevance, putting the cinematic, the cultural, the artistic and the political in dialogue.

Monochromator issue 1, Monochromator press, 2024

The first issue of Monochromator deconstructs Barbie and Oppenheimer under a shared monochrome to reconstruct them for social relevance, placing the cinematic, cultural, artistic, and political in dialogue. In 1945, the United States was reborn as the empire we experience, through the hard military power of the atomic bomb and the ‘soft’ capitalist power of corporations such as Mattel. Monochromator takes ‘Barbenheimer’— the summer blockbuster phenomenon of 2023 — as the headlining story of ‘Birth of a Nation’. That birth accompanied various deaths.

In Refraction, we uproot and replant the phenomenon of Barbenheimer through a trip to Walmart. In Wavelength, we displace Barbie and Oppenheimer. We look at their spatial, existential, and democratic contexts, and imagine if Barbie were a biopic and Oppenheimer were a fantasy. In Interference, we look into the said and the unsaid of Barbenheimer.

Publication year: 2024 June

Size: 155*235mm

Price: € 23

Page: 144p

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Monochromator issue 1, Monochromator press, 2024