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Hard Truths 2024
thinking about all of the ways we eke out our edges in the paradoxical proximities, the reconfigured socialities of urban life.
MJB is a conflagration.
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The Brutalist 2024
It felt like the “commentary”—whether around class, capitalism, zionism, movement and belonging—largely functioned to support the aesthetic and technological ambitions of the film, rather than forming a totality. Dialogue and flow the slag of a VistaVision epic.
The most compelling device to me was the marble. I learned just last week that marble is metamorphosed limestone; the corporeal sediment of marine organisms lithified and rendered through pressure and heat. Marble’s veining, too, is a record of what movement left behind;…
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The Zone of Interest 2023
brilliant and f••••ed up analysis of those insidious flows of labour and capital; social reproduction (gendered and more-than-human); the violent adjacencies of accumulation and oppression; and the permeability (aural, bodily, affective) between that persists despite literal and figurative obfuscation. while embedded in the holocaust, it seems to me more about the machinations of ascribing value and devaluation to forms of life, and how these operate / harm across time and culture. sound design 🤌🏻
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To Sleep with Anger 1990
paired with a conversation between dionne brand and christina sharpe 🥲
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