April 2009
3 posts
Apr 16th
Star Wars, Remembering and Forgetting
piquant: jackjuly: ‘In Tunisia, real-life nomads moved into a fictional slave village…One Tunisian ended up building his backyard chicken coop out of the domed “moisture evaporators” that supposedly made life in the deserts of Tatooine possible.’ -from Raiders of the Lost R2, an article by Jon Mooallem in Harper’s. The original Star Wars movies were shot all over the world—from the Tunisian...
Apr 15th
Apr 14th