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Melancholia
9 curated works.
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The Rings of Saturn
Carries a strong pull into music through migration and South Asia.
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Since I Left You
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The Queen Is Dead
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Werckmeister Harmonies
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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The Rings of Saturn
1990s
A walking tour of coastal Suffolk becomes a meditation on decay, colonial violence, memory, and the entropy of civilization.
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The Queen Is Dead
1980s
Morrissey and Marr's peak. Wit, melancholy, and jangly guitar perfection.
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Chainsaw Man
2020s
A boy merges with a chainsaw devil. Ultraviolent, melancholy, and deeply original shonen.
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Since I Left You
2000s
3500 samples woven into a joyous, melancholy journey. The album as mixtape dream.
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Film 2000s
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia is a 2004 film from Finland, Sweden, and Denmark, associated with Pirjo Honkasalo. 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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Music 2010s
Anti
Rihanna's most personal album. Island melancholy meets pop experimentation.
Film 2000s
Werckmeister Harmonies
Werckmeister Harmonies is a 2000 Hungarian drama film directed by Béla Tarr and co-directed by Ágnes Hranitzky, based on the 1989 novel The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai. Shot in black-and-white and composed of thirty-nine languidly paced shots, the film portrays the life of János and his uncle Gy...
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Music 1990s
Internationalist
Australian guitar rock that reaches outward. Anthemic but questioning, with the wide-sky melancholy of the Southern Cross.