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Desert Hearts

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Desert Hearts

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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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Nightwood

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Nightwood

Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.

Desert Gold

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Desert Gold

Carries a strong pull into film through identity and South Asia.

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Music from Saharan Cellphones

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Music from Saharan Cellphones

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Amassakoul

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Amassakoul

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Desert Flower

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Desert Flower

Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.

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Desert Hearts

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Desert Gold

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Desert Gold is a 1913 book by Zane Grey, linked to a wider international field and English. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.

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Tuareg desert rock. Electric guitars in the Sahara, rebellion and exile encoded in rhythm and sand.

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A boy becomes the messiah of a desert planet. Ecology, religion, and the dangers of hero worship.

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Sahara Électrique

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.

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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 from Saharan Cellphones

Desert guitar and synth music passed via Bluetooth across the Sahara. The future of folk.

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A man walks out of the desert and tries to reconnect with his family. Ry Cooder's guitar and American vastness.

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book by Waris Dirie

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Afrique Victime

Tuareg guitar meets psychedelic rock. Desert blues electrified for the 21st century.

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