Browse
Start from a world,
not a title.
Browse is for structured discovery when you know the kind of mood, place, medium, or corridor you want — but not the exact work. It should feel like opening a current, not scanning a taxonomy page.
Now showing
Semi-Formal
7 curated works.
7 works available.
Curated works
Routes through Semi-Formal
7 works selected across all media.
Themes in this selection
Routes through the index
Listening lane
Albums in this field
Music
Purple Rain
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
🎵
Music
Semi Shigure
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
Interpretive layer
Idea lines behind this surface
Bring interpretation forward so the route reads with more clarity, pressure, and argument.
Essays
Laozi
Carries a strong pull into books through folklore and identity.
Cultural geography
Regional constellations
Film
The Souvenir
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
Television
Special
Carries a strong pull into books through identity and South Asia.
Continue the route
Books · Strong bridge
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
1910s
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists is a 1914 semi-autobiographical novel by Irish house painter and sign writer Robert Noonan, who wrote the book in his spare time under the pen name Robert Tressell. Published after Tressell's death from tuberculosis in the Liverpool Royal Infirmary in 1911, the novel follows a ho...
🎵
Music · Strong bridge
Purple Rain
1980s
The soundtrack to Prince's semi-autobiographical film. When Doves Cry and everything after.
Film · Strong bridge
The Souvenir
2010s
The Souvenir is a 2019 romantic drama film written, directed, and co-produced by Joanna Hogg. The film is a semi-autobiographical account of Hogg's experiences at film school. It stars Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, and Tilda Swinton. It follows a young, quietly ambitious film student who embarks on her first serio...
Essays · Strong bridge
Laozi
6th-century BC semi-legendary Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism
Refine
Narrow by medium, or pivot to a new theme.
Active themes
Also in the field
Further works the current touches.
🎵
Music 2000s
Semi Shigure
🎵
Music 2000s
Semi-Formal