#aelita queen of mars

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AELITA: QUEEN OF MARS (Yakov Protazanov, 1924)

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'Aelita: Queen of Mars' by Sam Chivers.

Officially licensed 18" x 24" screen print on 300gsm Gmund Bauhaus paper, in a numbered limited edition of 50 for £50, with gallery stamp on the reverse.

On sale Tuesday September 24 at 5pm UK through Black Dragon Press.

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One Dress a Day Challenge

August: Fantasy & Sci-Fi

Aelita, Queen of Mars / Aleksandra Peregonets as Ikhoshka

I think of this as "the bumblebee costume" because of the striped body and the headdress that reminds me of antennae. Ikhoshka is Queen Aelita's favorite servant, and she wears this elaborate framework "skirt" over a pair of baggy pantaloons. She also has ballet slippers, a chunky necklace, and something like a battery pack at her waist.

The costumes for the Martian sequences, designed by Aleksandra Ekster, are outlandish and highly imaginative. This movie was said to be a strong influence on Metropolis. You can find several versions of it free to watch on YouTube.

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Doodles while watching Aelita: Queen of Mars

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'Aelita-Queen of Mars' 1924. Screenshots.

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(via RADIUM AGE ART (1924) – HILOBROW)

Aelita: Queen of Mars is a 1924 Soviet silent sf film based on Alexei Tolstoy’s 1923 novel.

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A scene from the 1924 Russian science fiction silent film AELITA: QUEEN OF MARS.

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Making the Pulp happen with some impressive cardboard and sheet metal tube aesthetics there.

“Aelita, Queen of Mars” (1924)

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Now watching:

This is from 1924 and is the first big budget movie from the Soviet Union. I’m only a few minutes in, but the Martian sets and costumes are FANTASTIC.

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1925 Poster for "Aelita, Queen of Mars", Russia's first science fiction film.

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One Dress a Day Challenge

February: Coeli's Monochrome Picks

Aelita, Queen of Mars / Yuliya Solntseva as Aelita

Coeli's comment: "Aelita: Queen of Mars has some magnificently weird Constructivist costumes in the Martian sequence (contrasting with the dull Soviet realism of the rest of the movie!)."

The Martian costumes in this film, by Aleksandra Ekster, are indeed quite something! Here, Aelita wears a hat that's something like an umbrella spine or perhaps a radio antenna. And is the design of that bodice meant to hint that she has three breasts, or is it just a stylistic thing?

There's a cool writeup and summary of the movie here.

I featured a costume Ikhoshka, Aelita's servant (who dresses like a bumblebee in a birdcage), in a previous post.

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Aelita, Queen of Mars (1924)

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'Aelita-Queen of Mars' 1924. Screenshots.

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The gown here was designed for the movie Aelita: Queen of Mars, which was also playing on the wall behind it