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Form & Zweck
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Blue
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Muichiro Mist Breathing 4th Form (Demon Slayer Swordsmith Village Arc)
Carries a strong pull into television through longing and South Asia.
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First Love
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and migration.
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Primal
Carries a strong pull into books through after-hours and South Asia.
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Persepolis
2000s
Growing up during the Islamic Revolution in graphic novel form. Autobiography as illustration.
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Blue
1970s
Confessional songwriting's apex. Vulnerability as art form.
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Mononoke
2000s
The "Medicine Seller" is a deadly and mysterious master of the occult who travels across feudal Japan in search of malevolent spirits called "mononoke" to slay. When he locates one of these spirits, he cannot simply kill it; he must first learn its Form, its Truth, and its Reason in order to wield the mighty Exorcis...
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Shoah
1980s
Nine hours of testimony about the Holocaust. No archival footage. Only witnesses and places.
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Television 2010s
Primal
A caveman and a dinosaur form a bond. Zero dialogue, pure visual storytelling.
Books 2010s
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982
An everywoman biography of structural sexism in South Korea. Quiet accumulation of indignity as a form of horror.
Anime 2010s
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
Yotarou is a former yakuza member fresh out of prison and fixated on just one thing: rather than return to a life of crime, the young man aspires to take to the stage of rakugo, a traditional Japanese form of comedic storytelling. Inspired during his incarceration by the performance of distinguished practitioner Yak...
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Film 1980s
Sans Soleil
Letters from a world traveler. Tokyo, Guinea-Bissau, and the persistence of memory.
Television 2000s
Skins
Skins is a British teen drama television series that follows the lives of a group of teenagers in Bristol, England, through the two years of sixth form. Its controversial storylines have explored issues such as dysfunctional families, mental illness, adolescent sexuality, gender, substance abuse, death, and bullying.
Books 2010s
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leath...