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A list of science fiction films released before the 1920s. These films include core elements of science fiction and are widely available with reviews by reputable critics or film historians.
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A list of science fiction films released before the 1920s. These films include core elements of science fiction and are widely available with reviews by reputable critics or film historians.
Paul Benjamin Auster is an American writer and film director. His notable works include The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Invisible (2009), Sunset Park (2010), Winter Journal (2012), and 4 3 2 1 (2017). His books have been translated into more than forty languages.
Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality.
Carlos Atanes is a Spanish film director, writer and playwright. He was born in Barcelona, and is a member of The Film-Makers' Cooperative, founded by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Ken Jacobs, Andy Warhol, Jack Smith and others. His first finished feature-length movie was FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions, which he released in 2004. The movie won the Best Feature Film Award at the Athens Panorama of Independent Filmmakers in 2005 and was also nominated for the Méliès d'Argent at Fantasporto that same year.
Enrique Lucio Eugenio Gaspar y Rimbau was a Spanish diplomat and writer, who wrote many plays (zarzuelas), and one of the first novels involving time travel with a time machine, El anacronópete.
Daína Chaviano is a Cuban-American writer of French and Asturian descent. She has lived in the United States since 1991.
Warning from Space is a Japanese tokusatsu science fiction film directed by Koji Shima. Produced and distributed by Daiei Film, it was the first Japanese science fiction film to be produced in color and predates Daiei's most iconic tokusatsu characters, Gamera and Daimajin. In the film's plot, starfish-like aliens disguised as humans travel to Earth to warn of the imminent collision of a rogue planet and Earth. As the planet rapidly accelerates toward Earth, a nuclear device is created at the last minute and destroys the approaching world.
Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel is a Spanish writer. He studied philosophy and is the author of the essay 'A History of Lying'. He's also well known in his native country for his short stories and his novels, including El asesino hipocondríaco and El gran imaginador . His work has been translated into English, French, Italian, Greek, Finnish, Turkish, Arabic and Russian, and published in more than a dozen countries.
Syfy is a Spanish digital satellite/cable television channel. It was launched on 1 June 2006 and specializes in science fiction, fantasy, and horror shows and movies.
The Awful Dr. Orloff is a 1962 horror film written and directed by Jesús Franco. It stars Howard Vernon as the mad Dr. Orloff who wants to repair his disfigured daughter's face with skin grafts from other women with the aid of a slavish, blind henchman named Morpho. A co-production between Spain and France, filmed in Madrid, the film is considered to be the earliest Spanish horror film.
Eduard Fernández Serrano is a Spanish screen and stage actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including three Goya Awards and four Gaudí Awards.
Science fiction in Spanish-language literature has its roots in authors such as Antonio de Guevara with The Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius (1527), Miguel de Cervantes in Don Quixote, Anastasio Pantaleón de Ribera's Vejamen de la luna, Luis Vélez de Guevara's El Diablo Cojuelo and Antonio Enríquez Gómez's La torre de Babilonia.
The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA), founded in 1982 is a nonprofit association of scholars, writers, and publishers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror in literature, film, and the other arts. Its principal activities are the organization of the International Conference of the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA), which was first held in 1980, the publication of a journal, the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts (JFA), which has been published regularly since 1990, and the production of a news blog and other social media that publish information of interest to the membership.
Science fiction in Chile began in the late 19th century with the publication of the books El espejo del mundo in 1875 by the Englishman Benjamin Tallman, about the modernization of Valparaíso and Santiago, and in 1877 of Desde Jupiter by Francisco Miralles, which recounted a trip to the planet and back.
Zacarías Martínez de la Riva is a Spanish film composer. Notable for his work in Tad, The Lost Explorer, Riva has worked on psychological thrillers, romantic comedies, dramas, documentaries, and animated films, as well as short films and television programs.
Magdalena Araceli Mouján Otaño (1926–2005) was an Argentine mathematician of Basque descent, a pioneer of Argentine computer science, operations research, and nuclear physics, and an award-winning science fiction author.
The Spirit of Science Fiction is a novel written by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño around 1984 and published posthumously. It was published in Spanish in 2016; an English-language translation by Natasha Wimmer was published in 2018 by Picador and in February 2019 by Penguin.
Cristina Jurado Marcos is a Spanish writer and publisher of fantasy and science fiction, the winner of three Ignotus Awards. She has written two novels, several short stories, and edited multiple anthologies, as well as numerous articles and interviews in the magazine Supersonic, which she also directs.
Javier Chillon is a Spanish director of films and music videos, known for his "bizarre and compelling" short films, "simply unlike anything anyone else is making". Between them, Die Schneider Krankheit (2008), Decapoda Shock (2011), and the English-language They Will All Die in Space (2015) have been screened at over 800 international film festivals and won approximately 140 awards or honours.
Om Ki Reo Escena is a Colombian theatrical/cinematographic collective in Bogotá, D.C. founded in 2009 and directed by Manuel J. Escobar.
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