Me: So do you know about this tv series Aeon Flux?
Julian F: Yes.
Me: What's the deal?
Julian F: It's awesome?
It was Andrew B who lent me the dvd set, arising out of a brainstorming session for Ath library dvds a while back; Michelle has talked it up plenty, too. As for me, I found the show striking from a visual and design perspective, and in a way that dove-tails with the deliberate narrative discontinuities (the backdrops and characters are all sharp edges and planes, liminal meetings and thrusting incursions, mechanical techscapes sheering into the organic, all Escher-seque cut, paste and redouble - but in that very unholy series of collisions, the series has a coherency as a whole). Like the way it plays with oppositions and linearity too, disrupting at every turn, not to mention the Low-esque music. The episode-length ones are more ambitious; the shorts more immediate and seemingly graspable; the meaning of the whole remains entirely elusive.
