02 / 1960sSerpent fantasy ✦ 1960s
The Curse of the Naga
Beneath the jewels and lightning lies a wonderfully inconvenient question: who gets to call a promise a curse?
Read the featureA JOURNAL OF IMPROBABLE CINEMAPAST PERFECT. FUTURE IMPOSSIBLE.
BOLLYWOOD
TIMEWARP✦
Dispatches from a Bollywood
that might have been.
1950s dreams. 1970s futures.
Somewhere beyond the final reel.
THE COSMICCHAKRA
A journey beyond the interval
THE COVER STORY ✦ IMAGINED 1950s
Love, longing
& a very
unreliable
universe.
A cosmic wheel. A missing scientist. A heroine who refuses to wait on Earth. Our opening feature ventures into the Bollywood that might have been.
Benjamin FosterFrom the projection room
TECHNICOLOUR DREAMS✦IMPOSSIBLE MACHINES✦VERY HUMAN HEARTS
FURTHER INTO THE WARP
Three more wrong turns
in the right direction.
02 / 1960s
03 / 1960sTemporal romance ✦ 1960s
The Time Traveler’s Daughter
A romance told out of order, with a family secret that refuses to stay in the past.
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04 / 1970sInterstellar spectacle ✦ 1970s
The Space-Time War
An interplanetary epic where the fleets are vast, the loyalties complicated and no peace treaty is complete without an encore.
Read the featureA NOTICE FROM THE PROJECTION ROOM
“Kindly refrain from revealing the ending.
We are still negotiating with the future.”
— The management, Palace of Possible Pictures
TWO FANS. SEVERAL STRONGLY HELD THEORIES.
Meet your hosts.
NEW YORK / COSMIC CORRESPONDENT
Benjamin Foster
A New Yorker with an incurable weakness for impossible machines and very human hearts. Benjamin can forgive a questionable spacecraft, but never a romance without a good refrain.
Meet Benjamin ↗
LONDON / KEEPER OF IMPOSSIBILITIES
Evelyn Chambers
A Londoner drawn to extravagant myths, complicated heroines and suspiciously articulate serpents. Evelyn reads every supernatural bargain twice—and always stays for the final song.
Meet Evelyn ↗Your guides through an imagined cinema. A note on this universe ↗
BEHIND THE CURTAIN
Not quite history.
Not merely nostalgia.
A painted planet. A melody from tomorrow. An entire universe hiding in the space between two frames. We follow the films another timeline might have made.
Meet your guides to the impossible ↗