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Bleak Seasons: Book One of Glittering Stone
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Aethiopes
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Bleak Seasons: Book One of Glittering Stone
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Queer Art of Failure
Carries a strong pull into film through South Asia.
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Booksmart
Carries a strong pull into music through power and after-hours.
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Rosetta
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Music · Strong bridge
Aethiopes
2020s
Underground hip-hop at its most literary and bleak. Preservation as producer, woods as poet.
Film · Strong bridge
Rosetta
1990s
Rosetta is a 1999 coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. The film follows the story of a teenager, residing in a caravan park with her alcoholic mother. In her quest for survival and a better life, she tirelessly seeks employment in order to break free from her tumultuous livi...
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Essays · Strong bridge
The Queer Art of Failure
2010s
"The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to con...
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Film · Strong bridge
An Elephant Sitting Still
2010s
Four people in a northern Chinese city endure one bleak day. The director's only film before his death.
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Music 2000s
In the Bleak Mid Winter (acoustic)
Film 2010s
Booksmart
Booksmart is a 2019 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Olivia Wilde and written by Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, and Katie Silberman. It stars Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever as two graduating high school girls who set out to finally break the rules and party on their last day of classe...
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Music 2020s
blackout blackout