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Favorite films

  • The Burial of Kojo
  • The Florida Project
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • You Were Never Really Here

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  • The Girl with All the Gifts

    ★★½

  • Texas Chainsaw Massacre

    ★★★

  • As Above, So Below

    ★★★½

  • Kirikou and the Sorceress

    ★★★★

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  • This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

    This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

    ★★★★½

    reflections: 

    - grief is all encompassing - and - it can move you 
    - blue is the colour of grief 
    - writing (as a colonial tool) vs orality is restrictive and fixes you (your story) without the space for nuance/change/perspective 
    - African storytelling and non linearity go hand in hand as always
    - this film beautifully and subtly presents us with cycles/spirals of death and rebirth
    - a poignant film about the consequences of violence seen as ‘progress’ 
    - displacement is a worse death (a genocidal death) than dying

  • Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

    Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

    ★★★★

    reflections:
     
    - hoarding as a process of emptying or reorganising the mind tangibly 
    - revisiting archive to remind ourselves that people who came before us also have answers 
    - i understand the news to be the birth of true crime™
    - history is only a loop if we continue recreating the same patterns. - using the archive as a means to change tactic

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  • Don't Look Up

    Don't Look Up

    ½

    thought it was smarter than it was

  • Cocktail

    Cocktail

    ★★★

    there are no black people in Jamaica according to this film

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