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Disappear
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Spirit of Eden
Carries a strong pull into film through folklore and after-hours.
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Disappear (ShockOne remix)
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Primitive Passions
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and migration.
Essays
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and East Asia.
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Top of the Lake
Carries a strong pull into books through after-hours and South Asia.
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Pulse
Carries a strong pull into books through folklore and urban isolation.
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Top of the Lake
2010s
A detective investigates a pregnant 12-year-old's disappearance in the New Zealand wilderness.
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Books · Strong bridge
Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City
1990s
A handover-era Hong Kong written as an imaginary cartography — the city read as a set of speculative maps on the eve of transition.
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Spirit of Eden
1980s
A synth-pop band invents post-rock. Silence, texture, and the courage to disappear.
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Pulse
2000s
Pulse is a 2001 Japanese techno-horror film written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. The plot follows two separate storylines in Japan that faces mass disappearances amidst a ghostly invasion of the real world via the Internet. One f...
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Essays 1990s
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance
The founding cultural-studies text for reading Hong Kong cinema, architecture, and writing through the logic of disappearance.
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Books 1990s
The Memory Police
On an island, things disappear and no one remembers them. Totalitarianism as erasure.
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Film 1960s
L'Avventura
A woman disappears on a volcanic island. Her lover and best friend search, then forget. Existential ennui.
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Essays 1990s
Primitive Passions
Rey Chow's reading of ethnic cinema and translation — the conceptual frame behind a generation of Hong Kong film studies.
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Books 2000s
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A journalist and a hacker investigate a disappearance. Nordic noir's most famous page-turner.
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Music 2020s
Disappear (ShockOne remix)