Classic SF movies rendered as Russian folk-art woodcuts

Posted by Cory Doctorow, February 19, 2008 1:59 PM | permalink

Russian artist Andrey Kuznetsov has created a series of Russian folk-art woodcuts inspired by science fiction films like The Matrix, Star Wars and War of the Worlds. These are just...inspired. Link (via IO9)

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#1 posted by Jack Fear , February 19, 2008 2:19 PM

I ran across these a couple of years ago; here's another page, with all the images at full size.

Some not-so-classic films in there, too—Firewall? Anaconda II?—and some that I don't recognize at all; of course, it doesn't help that I can't read Russian.

But yeah, cool project. I've been wondering about the backstory for a while now...

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#2 posted by jimh , February 19, 2008 2:22 PM

teh spiderman is awesome

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#3 posted by glugenwog , February 19, 2008 3:04 PM

Is Neo farting on that cat's butt?

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#4 posted by OM

, February 19, 2008 3:18 PM

...That's The Matrix?? I could have sworn that was Dr. Phibes!!

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#5 posted by OCNCTY

, February 19, 2008 3:30 PM

"And now, technology shall taste the lash of the hickory switch!"

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#6 posted by Takuan , February 19, 2008 3:40 PM

very horse-drawn-punk

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#7 posted by Robbo

, February 19, 2008 3:47 PM

Man, oh man, oh man - when Cory comes back to work he comes in gangbusters!!

Either that or he can type faster with baby poo on his fingers.

Congrats again - and it's good to see the Doctorow Tsunami of Info back in action.

Cheers

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#8 posted by franko , February 19, 2008 3:54 PM

wow... just... wow.

these are incredible. VERY well done. i love every single one, even the ones i have no idea which movie they are depicting!

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#9 posted by Bionicrat2 , February 19, 2008 5:24 PM

The Star Wars one is a kicker. How is the leap made to Chewbacca serving a pickle to Luke?

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#10 posted by OCNCTY

, February 19, 2008 5:37 PM

@ BIONICRAT2:

Vodka. Russian Vodka is the answer.

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#11 posted by romwell , February 19, 2008 8:59 PM

#3 yes =) I can't really translate the text (it's in archaic russian), but the text mentions that =)
Overall, the plot of the picture is someting like this: Neo dodged the bullet, but can't bend himself back to normal position, and asks the pharmacist Morpheus to give him a pill for that, but he smells/farts, so Morpheus denies him the pill... approximately like this =)

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#12 posted by romwell , February 19, 2008 9:01 PM

The spiderman says something like "My socks have never washed been, that's why to the ceiling I cling"

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#13 posted by Alexxx , April 26, 2008 4:16 PM

Пиздец)))