The Forgotten Archive of a Spanish Spy Agency. MORTADELO Y FILEMON
Description:
A cinematic retro espionage collection set in a fictional 1970s Spanish intelligence world, filled with dusty archives, classified files, typewriters, surveillance rooms, laboratories, old telephones, secret maps, dim offices, deserted streets, vintage storefronts, and mysterious objects that suggest abandoned missions, bureaucratic conspiracies, and forgotten undercover operations.
These images were generated by Artificial Intelligence.
A cinematic retro spy comedy set in a fictional 1970s Spain, where secret agents, eccentric officials, nervous informants, improvised disguises, dusty archives, smoky offices, street chases, old cinemas, cheap bars, hotel lobbies, public squares, rooftops, laboratories and forgotten government corridors collide in a world of bureaucratic chaos and absurd investigation. The series blends vintage European cinema aesthetics with dark humor, slapstick energy and noir atmosphere: worn suits, red trousers, old telephones, typewriters, paper files, vending machines, battered cars, market stalls, taverns, secret dossiers and strange scientific experiments create a nostalgic but surreal universe. Each scene feels like a lost frame from an imaginary Spanish espionage film, mixing comedy, mystery, action and social satire with warm light, grainy textures, dramatic shadows and wide cinematic framing. The collection suggests a bizarre intelligence agency trapped between outdated technology, comic incompetence and dangerous missions that always seem to spiral out of control.
These images were generated by Artificial Intelligence.
Madrid 1974: A Retro Spy Comedy Through the Secret Files of a Chaotic Bureaucracy
Description
A cinematic retro series set in a fictional 1974 Madrid, blending spy comedy, bureaucratic absurdity, street chases, secret archives, analog surveillance and vintage Spanish urban life. The images recreate a world of confidential folders, smoky offices, rotary telephones, typewriters, old taxis, crowded markets, railway stations, rooftop antennas, hidden laboratories, newspaper presses and suspicious government corridors. The atmosphere feels like a lost espionage farce from the seventies: serious men in ill fitting suits, anxious messengers, improvised agents, comic confusion, urgent missions and a constant sense that every secret operation is seconds away from becoming a public disaster.
The collection moves between interior and exterior scenes with strong narrative continuity: intelligence offices full of papers, tense investigations, chaotic pursuits through Madrid streets, undercover activity in cafés and markets, and surreal technical experiments in improvised laboratories. Its visual language combines photorealistic period detail with comic exaggeration, creating a nostalgic but dynamic tribute to classic European spy parody, Spanish popular culture and analog detective fiction.
These images have been generated by Artificial Intelligence.
Foreign spies are fitting turtles and fish with sensors to create underwater maps of China’s coastline, Beijing warned Friday in apparent reference to its Western competitors.
A sea turtle swimming underwater. File photo: OhCan, via Pexels.
In a social media post ominously titled “Under the deep blue, undercurrents are surging”, the Ministry of State Security said international spy agencies are using “new types of espionage equipment” to steal sensitive marine data.
“Relatively large marine animals with sensors attached have been discovered in certain waters of China,” the ministry said, in a section titled “spy turtles, spy fish”.
The clandestine creatures were found “swimming in a specific area, collecting sensitive data about the marine environment such as water temperature, salinity and ocean current, transmitting it overseas via satellite”, it said.
Foreign groups also used solar-powered wave gliders, buoys with high-precision sensors, and devices loaded onto cargo ships capable of capturing “port dynamics” in real time, it added, without naming a particular agency.
The data collected would be used to create “underwater maps” that can “identify weak points in China’s coastal defences, posing a serious threat to China’s national security”, according to the ministry.
The ministry urged proper security checks on equipment received from abroad, and called on fishers to report any fishy-looking buoys or devices found at sea.
Beijing and Western governments have long traded accusations of espionage.
Last year Beijing warned government workers to remain vigilant of “honeytrap” schemes, after a public servant was lured by the “seductive beauty” of a foreign agent.
US authorities on Wednesday seized 13 internet domains they suspect were used by Chinese agents to obtain classified information from Americans with security clearances.
The US Department of Justice headquarters building in Washington, DC. Photo: US Department of Justice.
In a statement on Wednesday, the US Department of Justice announced the seizure of domain names allegedly used by sham consulting sites to target Americans with access to classified information.
“Today’s seizures send a clear message that any attempts to exploit Americans trusted with access to our nation’s most sensitive information will be exposed and dismantled,” said US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro.
Roman Rozhavsky, assistant director of the FBI’s Counterintelligence and Espionage Division, said the seizures illustrate “the lengths the Chinese government’s intelligence services will go to as they try to use AI-generated content to trick, recruit, or coerce current and former US security clearance holders into sharing sensitive information.”
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg warned Americans they should treat any offers of quick income for vague consulting “with extreme caution and remain vigilant for warning signs of malicious targeting.”
The unnamed conspirators behind the websites “have denied any involvement by any foreign government,” according to the Justice Department statement.
Earlier this month, dozens of metallic discs suspended from the ceiling of a large industrial space invited viewers to immerse themselves in what SpY describes as “a continuous choreography of movement and reflection.” The artist is known for his large-scale installations, often repurposing objects like traffic cones and metallic rescue blankets to create striking urban interventions.
SpY’s most recent room-scale work, titled “Halos,” reimagined the industrial interior of a former railway-related factory in Florence—a place we typically associate with Renaissance elegance as opposed to brutalist design—as part of the city’s Bright Festival.
Three stories high, “Halos” interacts with the natural breeze that flows throughout the space, which is exacerbated by people moving around. Glimmering light further lends a sense of ethereality and even magic.
Login
