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Việt and Nam 2024
If you venture deep enough into a large enough cave system, you'll reach a point of ineffable stillness. Speleologists call it the dark zone. There is no natural light, almost no sound, no wind. The temperature is constant. Standing in the dark zone, it is difficult to maintain any sense of direction, of up or down. In the absence of movement, the map dissolves into spacelessness. You are nowhere. You could be anywhere.
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Nickel Boys 2024
The fixed, artificial first-person perspective really took me out. Felt like I was playing Morrowind the whole time. Maybe I'm just desensitized to the horrors of juvenile incarceration. Go figure.
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Gender Troublemakers 1993
"We have our own culture, language, stories and thus it is time for us and only us to document ourselves."
There's something so vital about this film. Just seeing two trans women talking, fucking, being (together) in 1993. When Todd Haynes was making Poison, when Cheryl Dunye was making The Watermelon Woman, Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay were making Gender Troublemakers. And yet. There was no NEA grant money (or whatever the Canadian equivalent), no Sundance Grand Jury Prize…
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La Chimera 2023
All excavation is inherently destructive. You can't dig the same hole twice. Orpheus looks back and Eurydice is lost to him. What remains is a memory of a glimpse, a reflection.
The archaeologist will tell you how their work is distinct from the work of a looter. Where the looter digs carelessly, the archaeologist excavates methodically, recording provenience. Where the looter robs the dead for their wealth, the archaeologist does it for data. A reflection of a reflection. There is…
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