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Mysterium Pictorum

In an abandoned underground city at the Spanish coast, near Malaga, I found a USB stick containing 300 random movies from arthouse to weird, from obscure to notorious. Now, in Lockdown, it is time to watch and discuss them all in an international podcast project. Two Turks and a German, two filmmakers and a mystery man - Welcome to Mysterium Pictorum!

tv & film film history

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00:58:20

Mysterium Pictorum 39 - No Country for Old Men

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2022/05/04

When we were still in Turkey, we sat down with Doruk, a simple man from the streets, and discussed the Coen Brother's "No Country for Old Men". We were a bunch of ignorants towards the Western genre then and still are today, but we loved this. Listen to us love it. Also, we're eating 1,5 kilos of Turkish pickles over the course of this episode, because Turkish pickles are the best pickles in the world, by far!--- Send in a voice message:

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00:50:26

Mysterium Pictorum 38 - F. W. Murnau's FAUST (LIVE...

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2022/04/09

Our lost live Episode from the Obsessive Christmas Film Festival in December 2021! We did find it! The sound quality is not perfect, but it's a fun episode! We're talking about F. W. Murnau's expressionist horror masterpiece FAUST and rip it to shreds. We did not appreciate all the misogyny and rape, but we did appreciate the visuals. We also talk about some history (who among the actors were Nazis? Who wasn't?) fail at reading Lotte Eisner (too many big words) and discuss roofies a lot. An episode

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00:46:27

Mysterium Pictorum 37 - NO END

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2022/03/23

We're talking Kieslowski again! We love him! This time, we watched BEZ KONCA / NO END. This brings us to discussions about losing our phones in East Berlin, unions and fatherly badassery, the Leftovers, A Ghost Story and many more lovely topics! Come join us in the Kieslowski love-fest! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lars-henriks/message

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01:33:18

Mysterium Pictorum 36 - Satantango

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2022/03/15

We finally did it! We watched Bela Tarr's behemoth of slow cinema - And we LOVED it! As usual, we're the only arthouse film podcast around that will talk about Gilmore Girls, German trash TV, H. P. Lovecraft and orgies while discussing this certified classic. Your funniest bumbling group of ignorants is at it again! Listen right now - It's a great one! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lars-henriks/message

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00:50:39

Mysterium Pictorum 35 - BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW

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2022/02/18

This time, we discussed Panos Cosmatos' "Beyond the Black Rainbow", as well as German casting shows (in particular "The Next Uri Geller") and xHamsters porn casting show "X Factor". Seriously, this is a good one! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lars-henriks/message

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00:53:04

Mysterium Pictorum 34 - BELLADONNA OF SADNESS

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2022/02/02

We've watched some rape-y arthouse anime. Let's talk about it! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lars-henriks/message

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00:58:17

Mysterium Pictorum 33 - ZOMBI 2 / ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS

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2022/01/27

We're joined by filmmaker Christian Grundey (host of the German film podcast "Filme zum Dessert") to discuss Lucio Fulci's "ZOMBIE 2", also known as "ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS". We also discuss zombie films in general, Italian horror films, film censorship in Germany, Voodoo, German amateur splatter - and then a cat farts. You shouldn't miss this one! Write us an iTunes review! We love you! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lars-henriks/message

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01:15:43

Mysterium Pictorum 32 - BLAST OF SILENCE

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2022/01/17

Christmas Special! New Year’s Special! 2021 wrap-up! Recommendation lists! In-person-episode! This “Mysterium Pictorum” episode is so special, it more than makes up for the “meh” movie we watched! “A Blast of Silence” is an independent film noir crime drama from 1960’s New York, starts out really nice and then quickly becomes tedious. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lars-henriks/message

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00:46:15

Mysterium Pictorum 31 - Ashik Kerib

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2021/12/23

This time, we watched and discussed Sergej Parajanov's "Ashik Kerib" - Based on a Turkish fairytale. Along the way, we discussed the very eistence of Turkish fairytales, RomComs, Turkish RomComs and horny architecture, specifically that of religious temples of all kinds. Spoiler: Mosques are the horniest, by far. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lars-henriks/message

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00:46:15

Mysterium Pictorum 30 - DAMNATION

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2021/12/06

We're BACK! After a hiatus that went on for way to long (making films has a way of keeping you from talking about films), it's finally time to resume the weekly schedule! (Hopefully ...) It's Bela Tarr time again! We love Bela! We're talking about his film DAMNATION, and we also throw around ideas for which properties should be remade in the Bela Tarr style - Mean Girls? Leon the Professional? It's a fun thought! --- Send in a voice message:

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00:46:49

Mysterium Pictorum 29 - BEGOTTEN

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2021/09/10

We've watched "Begotten" this time. Have you heard about this one? If so, you'll be curious to hear us try to sum up its story, talk about similar films, define our film term of the week, praise E. Elias Mehrige's most famous film "Shadow of the Vampire" (while failing to pronounce his name correctly) and debate creation myths in general and the value of "Begotten" more specifically. Listen to it, it's fun! --- Send in a voice message:

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00:55:36

Mysterium Pictorum 28 - BBC's NEVERWHERE

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2021/09/05

This week, we're talking about BBC's "Neverwhere", straight from the 90's, written by Neil Gaiman! Sadly, none of us liked it. It's a stillborn masterpiece. But that Gaiman fella does show some potential as a writer. Listen to the episode for our detailed take, Nisan's early onset dementia and the story about how Neil Gaiman was terribly rude to us! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lars-henriks/message

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01:01:09

Mysterium Pictorum 27 - BACURAU

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2021/09/04

We absolutely loved "Bacurau", so this episode is a pure love fest! We're also discussing Gilmore Girls, climate change, Noam Chomsky and what our film term of the week, "ethical cinema", might mean in pre-apocalyptic times like ours. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lars-henriks/message

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01:19:17

Mysterium Pictorum 26 - HÄXAN

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2021/08/10

This time, Dave from Cinemallennials is joining us to discuss the silent Norwegian horror classic / early documentary "Häxan". Obviously, we also discuss The Lord of the Rings, our favourite Witch movies, the persecution of "witches" in medieval Europe, folk beliefs, silent film porn and more fun stuff! Give it a listen and get in touch with us if you have anything to add! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lars-henriks/message

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00:57:02

Mysterium Pictorum 25 - SUNRISE

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2021/08/06

F. W. Murnau went to Hollywood to make "Sunrise", written by Carl Meyer, co-author of "Dr. Caligari". The film went on to win the first Oscar for "Best unique and artistic Picture" and his held in high regard by critics and audiences to this day. Not by us, though. Not at all. Fuck this movie. Fuck the canon. What a repulsive piece of shit. Listen to us ripping this 1927 classic to shreds! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lars-henriks/message

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01:44:42

Mysterium Pictorum 24 - THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI

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2021/07/27

Dr. Paula Blair is back! The host of the phenomenal "Audiovisual Cultures" Podcast talks to us about the German expressionist classic "The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari"! It's a long episode, but filled to the brim with fun, knowledge and insightful discussion! Also, there's dick jokes. Intellectual dick jokes, obviously! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lars-henriks/message

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01:02:27

Mysterium Pictorum 23 - ARTHUR & MERLIN (2015)

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2021/07/21

This time, we talked about the 2015 low budget fantasy epic "Arthur & Merlin", which inspired us to discuss adaptation of Arthurian legends and mythology in general, review Wolfgang Petersen's "Troy", pitch some myth adaptations of our own, question the possibilities of low budget hard fantasy in general, praise the Lovecraftian ideas while panning pretty much everything else about the film - For which we do feel very sorry. Term of the week: "Demo reel movie". There's reasons for that. ---

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00:55:31

Mysterium Pictorum 22 - ANTIPORNO

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2021/07/16

We really liked Sion Sono's Antiporno! It also got us talking about Japanese cinema, German drama schools, theatre, feminism, leftist boomers, Yasmina Reza and many more fun topics! It's a nice one, give it a listen! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lars-henriks/message

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01:05:13

Mysterium Pictorum 21 - ANDY WARHOL'S FLESH

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2021/07/06

With our guest, dissident journalist Sandra, we're discussing Andy Warhol's (but really Paul Morrissey's) debut feature "Flesh". Sadly, this is, again one of those episodes where we didn't like the film. At all. We're so sorry. Still: It got us talking! About prostitution, drugs, feminism, the validity of the Bechdel test, Boomers again (of course), Disney's A Bug's Life vs. Dreamworks' Antz (obviously) - It's a fun episode full of good vibes and I guarantee you - You need this in your life! ---

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00:59:01

Mysterium Pictorum 20 - TARKOVSKY & PARAJANOV: ISLANDS

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2021/06/29

We've watched a tiresome short documentary with nothing to offer on YouTube, so we recommend great docs about artists instead of wasting everyone's time with this garbage. Among other things, we're talking about why Marlon Brando will forever be cancelled (TW: rape), Christoph Schlingensief and why there's no good documentary about the making of his films, the meanings of our names, skinhead culture, TikTok, Facebook, Ingmar Bergman and Rainer Werner Fassbinder (of course), and as little as we can

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