![]() While this was a stylistic choice by Chung, who was unsure that MTV would allow for a full series order of his show, the title of the series and the name of its hero hints at the world’s main operating philosophy.Īeon, as known in Valentinianism, a Gnostic exploraiton of Christianity, is the source of all being, made from male and female pairings known as syzygies. In the pilot, we see how Monicans deal with this: An agent in Monica remotely atomizes Aeon’s body and incinerates her possessions and home, removing all trace of her existence, then awakes another Aeon Flux to resume her missions in Bregna. Each of those six episodes are silent stories of debauchery and death, where Aeon dies before the credits roll. In the original pilot and second season of the show, not a word of intelligible dialogue is exchanged. ![]() And while those themes still hold true the deeper you look at what’s presented, there’s a great deal of esoteric offerings beneath that top layer of flesh. On the surface, one sees an industrial world pushed to its limits as the last two peoples slaughter each other while lusting after sex and power with animalistic voracity. Æon Flux is art house in all its avant-garde glory and confusion. The long and sordid history between spy and dictator fuels their enmity and attraction, making playthings of Monicans and Breens alike. Aeon Flux, a spy, saboteur and assassin from the nation of Monica, undertakes a series of missions to disrupt and undermine the ambitions of Trevor Goodchild, the technocratic dictator of Bregna and her occasional lover. Peter Chung’s Æon Flux is set in the midst of a shadow war between the only two nations in the world. Seeing it as an adult clarifies a great many things, making its oddities all the more mesmerizing. ![]() And despite it being horribly misunderstood, I lived for years with images of an industrial future where long-limbed people warred with each other for freedom and sexual payback with twisted sci-fi methods lifted from a mad scientist’s fever dream. It was something too wild for my mind to comprehend at the time. And anyone who knows Æon Flux knows that it’s not fit for that age group despite it being animated, but I say it was inappropriate because I was unable to grasp what I was seeing at the time. I did so on purpose, surreptitiously, of course. Weirder still if you were a kid in that decade like I was and heard about Peter Chung’s Æon Flux.Īs a kid I regularly consumed media that wasn’t age appropriate. A weird concept to appreciate fifteen years after that practice held significant influence over what we consumed. It was the decade the Internet boomed but had yet to achieve complete supremacy over media migration, and because of that circumstance it was the last decade new media was learned about via word-of-mouth. * Doktor ZUM "The Forbidden Secrets of the Unknown and the Forbidden.Media in the 90s was a weird creature. * Stick Figure Theatre, "Shakespeare's Henry V" * Craisy Daisy "To Officer With Love" (mentioned above) Submerge yourself in the depths of animated comics, on-going stories of live characters set in animated worlds and dazzling short films from some of the world's most exciting artists and multimedia wizards! It can all be found in this special eye-deep, two volume release. Float adrift in a wellspring of award-winning, original and unique animation. ![]() Quench your thirst for the bizarre, twisted and disturbed classics that premiered on MTV's Liquid Television.
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