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Desert Gold
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Desert Flower
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Desert Hearts
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Music from Saharan Cellphones
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Amassakoul
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Amassakoul
2000s
Tuareg desert rock. Electric guitars in the Sahara, rebellion and exile encoded in rhythm and sand.
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Desert Hearts
1980s
Desert Hearts is a 1985 American romantic drama film directed by Donna Deitch. The screenplay, written by Natalie Cooper, is an adaptation of the 1964 lesbian novel Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule. Set in Reno, Nevada, in 1959, it tells the story of a university professor awaiting a divorce who finds her true self...
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Dune
1960s
A boy becomes the messiah of a desert planet. Ecology, religion, and the dangers of hero worship.
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Sahara Électrique
2010s
Tuareg desert blues electrified. Saharan rock from the world's most unlikely guitar band.
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Desert Flower
Desert Flower is a 2010 film from France, Germany, and Austria, associated with Sherry Hormann. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
Books 1930s
Nightwood
"At Nightwood's center are the love affairs of Robin Vote - a character based on Barnes's lover, Thelma Wood. Robin marries Felix Volkbein, an eccentric aristocrat, whom she meets in Paris, and whom she abandons years later for the American Nora Flood. But Nora cannot contain Robin, either, and Robin in turn deserts...
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Music 2010s
Music from Saharan Cellphones
Desert guitar and synth music passed via Bluetooth across the Sahara. The future of folk.
Film 1960s
Red Desert
Red Desert is a 1964 film from France and Italy, associated with Michelangelo Antonioni. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Desert Flower
book by Waris Dirie
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Music 2020s
Afrique Victime
Tuareg guitar meets psychedelic rock. Desert blues electrified for the 21st century.