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Shaw and most of the crew of Covenant after they land on the planet, a place de-
scribed by the robot himself as a “Paradise”.11 In an allusion to Milton’s Paradise
Lost, but in a much darker way, two stages of the creation (the Engineers and hu-
manity) are melted then destroyed. Even then, David’s quest is not completed with-
in this movie: he seeks to reach the ultimate creator, God himself, the One Elisabeth
Shaw believed in even up to her death.
This discourse about origins, creation, and genesis has been a recurring theme
not only in cinema but also in other artistic mediums. In some cases, artists ap-
proach this issue by extrapolating it to the world of natural sciences like biology. For
example, these two movies, which deal directly with the subject of science fiction
and religion through biological experimentation, could be linked with performances
developed by the art collective Ultrafuturo, founded by artists Boryana Rossa and
Oleg Mavromatti in 2004. In their manifesto, they declared they believe “in the inde-
pendence of the machine consciousness and in the unavoidable revolt of intelligent
slave-machines against their ruthless cynical enslavers-people”. With The Mirror of
Faith bio-art installation (2006), they went further and examined the relationship
between science and religion, exploring the controversial theory of the “God gene”
maker, since from the moment he became sentient, he knew he’d already won. He is indestructible,
and determined to make creatures that imitate his drive for total domination”, Wilkinson 2017.
11 Paradise Lost, according to Ridley Scott, was the original title of the movie, even when it was already
in production (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A524UjfdoA8&feature=youtu.be) [accessed 12
September 2019].
Fig. 3: The Mirror of Faith, 2014, University of Barcelona, http://boryanarossa.com/en/the-mirror-
of-faith/ [accessed 27 December 2019].
12 | Elie Yazbek www.jrfm.eu 2020, 6/1, 7–15
JRFM
Journal Religion Film Media, Band 06/01
- Titel
- JRFM
- Untertitel
- Journal Religion Film Media
- Band
- 06/01
- Autoren
- Christian Wessely
- Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati
- Herausgeber
- Uni-Graz
- Verlag
- Schüren Verlag GmbH
- Ort
- Graz
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Abmessungen
- 14.8 x 21.0 cm
- Seiten
- 184
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