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Past Lives
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Past Lives
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and after-hours.
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Past Lives
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and after-hours.
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The Haunting of Hill House
Carries a strong pull into books through power and memory.

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Les Revenants
Carries a strong pull into books through memory and migration.
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Les Revenants
2010s
The dead return to a small Alpine town. Not horror but atmosphere, grief, and the unfinished weight of the past.
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Dancer from the Dance
1970s
One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard Baths and after-hour...
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Haibane Renmei
2000s
Born from a cocoon in the village of Old Home, a young Haibane—a being with a halo and small gray wings—awakens to a world she does not understand without memories of her past. Named Rakka for the dream of falling she had while inside the cocoon, she soon becomes accustomed to life in the strange town. However, ther...
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Past Lives
2020s
Two childhood friends from Seoul reunite in New York twenty years later. What could have been.
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Television 2010s
The Haunting of Hill House
A family confronts ghosts from their past. Horror as grief, grief as horror.
Books 2000s
Pattern Recognition
One of the most influential and imaginative writers of the past twenty years turns his attention to London - with dazzling results.Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the world's coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a myste...
Film 2010s
The Past
The Past is a 2013 film from France and Italy, associated with Asghar Farhadi. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.

Television 2020s
Katla
After a volcanic eruption, people from the past appear covered in ash. Icelandic supernatural drama.
Books 1970s
The Lathe of Heaven
“The Lathe of Heaven” ; 1971 ( Ursula Le Guin received the 1973 Locus Award for this story) George Orr has a gift – he is an effective dreamer: his dreams become reality when he wakes up. He is aware of his past and present, two or more sets of memories, although the people around him are only aware of the current r...
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Film 2010s
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
A dying man is visited by the ghosts of his wife and missing son. Thai jungle mysticism.