[b1n]

Nice 'Holy Mountain' vibes in the promo video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Mountain_(1973_film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdXGhsAynGI

[jbaiter]

The horse in the circle of fire is also a quote from Phillipe Garrel's "La Cicatrice Intérieure", a rather obscure surrealist film from the 70s (starring and scored by Nico/Christa Päffgen!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JYiADaKJ3A

[meiuqer]

Good shout, I was thinking of The color of Pomegranates:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Color_of_Pomegranates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPtxS1c-fGA

[xnx]

Whoa. I didn't realize the whole movie was on YouTube! Randomly skipped to https://youtu.be/aPtxS1c-fGA?t=1187 which contains a tossed silver ball which Teenage Engineering seem to be quoting almost verbatim in their video.

[sssilver]

The last thing I was expecting during my daily Hacker News read was bumping into a Parajanov reference. Incredible.

[mr_briggs]

Watching The Holy Mountain, I felt like my life had been divided in 2 - that which came before watching it, and that which came after. Sure is an experience, and I certainly can't unsee a lot of it.

[bembo]

Watched it with some friends on shrooms for the first time. Incredible. All the movies we watched after it that night felt bland and uninteresting.

[type0]

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/13/archives/they-kill-animal...

[mdumic]

Also, Dreams (Kurosawa) - Fox Wedding scene

[darepublic]

also the wicker man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBS5qeqHDGI

[fredoliveira]

Or Midsommar, which is quite similar.

[bbor]

Someone please help this little skeptic: is that video real, or Midjourney? The short cuts make me think Midjourney, but then they have a shot with their product in it.

[dhritzkiv]

It's certainly real.

What was it about the video that made you think it's generative? That it's surrealistic?

[defrost]

Welcome to Alejandro Jodorowsky, he's like AI off the chain with no guard rails but it's 1974 and the home PC doesn't yet exist.

[spencerflem]

The video is 11 years old fwiw

[yzzyx]

One of my all time favorite movies! And definitely agreed, I'd be curious to know if there was any direct inspiration

[zeristor]

Mediaeval Cosplay?