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SIMULACRA

DISCOVER

References beyond the current archive.

Nothing here is part of the collection. Each one is shown with the signals it holds in common with SIMULACRA and the entries those signals lead to, so the reason it appears can be followed and disagreed with. Distance is read off the archive graph, not scored.

DISCOVEREDFILMADJACENT

FILM1979NO PLATE

Mosfilm serves no still from a page that answers this address, Criterion returns 403 and Janus serves a placeholder. A 403 is a refusal, not an obstacle. Checked 2026-09-20.

Stalker

Andrei Tarkovsky · 1979

The archive's film holdings are contemporary and bodily. Stalker is neither, and it carries the architecture entries' vocabulary more exactly than any film already here: a guided walk through a ruined industrial zone toward a room that may grant a wish, filmed in derelict Estonian hydro works. Procession, future-ruin and ritual, without a single body horror.

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  1. StalkerDISCOVERED
  2. Future ruin4 SHAREDSainte-Bernadette du BanlayClaude Parent + Paul VirilioSB-ARC-002IN ARCHIVE
SHOW 3 PATHS

SOURCEcriterion.com

DISCOVEREDFILMOUTLIER

FILM1967NO PLATE

Les Films de Mon Oncle's domain does not resolve; Criterion 403. Tativille was built and demolished, and nothing free survives of it. Checked 2026-09-20.

Playtime

Jacques Tati · 1967

The furthest thing here from the archive's temperament, and that is the reason. Tati built a modernist city to full scale in order to film people failing to navigate it: identical glass cubicles, endless grid, the office as a maze. Severance stages the same building as horror; Superstudio drew it as critique. This is the only version that treats it as comedy, and it predates both.

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  1. PlaytimeDISCOVERED
  2. OFFICESeveranceDan EricksonSB-TV-003IN ARCHIVE
SHOW 3 PATHS

SOURCEcriterion.com

DISCOVEREDFILMADJACENT

FILM1962NO PLATE

Criterion 403, and the film is a sequence of copyrighted stills, so there is no frame to reference honestly. Checked 2026-09-20.

La Jetée

Chris Marker · 1962

Baudrillard is in the archive as a text with no film beside it. La Jetée is the argument made in pictures: a story told almost entirely in stills, about a man sent back into his own memory, where the image replaces the event it recorded. Possessor's occupied bodies are the same idea in a later register.

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  1. La JetéeDISCOVERED
  2. SIMULATION3 SHAREDSimulacra and SimulationJean BaudrillardSB-TXT-002IN ARCHIVE
SHOW 3 PATHS

SOURCEcriterion.com

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