the project needs you to turn some part of your heart off. that is the only way to be here.
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You Resemble Me 2021
dina amer has renewed my faith in the power of art to effect posthumous redemption through this beautiful, painful, and unapologetic retelling of the life of a woman reduced to fake news. i found myself crying near the end and i couldn't tell you who or what exactly i was mourning. that's the touchstone of an imagined response well done. it's so, so easy to fall into the trap of glorifying one side in order to critique another -- that's…
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Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda 2017
i watched this over the course of a week because — not that there (thankfully) is any shortage of footage of ryuichi sakamoto talking, thinking, listening, composing — i wanted to make it last. the quiet is so profound with sakamoto. the joy and curiosity music — ambient and erosive — brings him loosens up my lungs. how wonderful that people like him existed and exist in this world. when i next listen to the rain, i will think of him.
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