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Staring Back / Boy Scouts
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Nowhere
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Homogenic
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No Future
Carries a strong pull into television through identity and South Asia.
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Nostalghia
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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The Parallax View
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Television · Strong bridge
Never Have I Ever
2020s
Never Have I Ever is an American comedy-drama television series starring Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher. Though it takes place in the San Fernando Valley, the show has been reported to be loosely based on Kaling's childhood experiences in the Boston area, while Kaling herself has said...
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Music · Strong bridge
Homogenic
1990s
Volcanic beats and string arrangements. Iceland as emotional landscape.
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Nostalghia
1980s
Nostalghia is a 1983 drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and starring Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano and Erland Josephson. Tarkovsky co-wrote the screenplay with Tonino Guerra.
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Essays · Strong bridge
No Future
2000s
"In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of "reproductive futurism." Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence in need of protec...
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Music 1990s
Nowhere
Thames Valley shoegaze: walls of guitar feedback structured into pop songs. The sound of staring at the ceiling and hearing the ocean.
Film 1960s
Winter Light
Winter Light is a 1963 Swedish tragedy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring his regulars, Gunnar Björnstrand, Ingrid Thulin and Max von Sydow. It follows Tomas Ericsson (Björnstrand), pastor of a small rural Swedish church, as he deals with an existential crisis and his Christianity.
Film 1970s
The Parallax View
The Parallax View is a 1974 American political thriller film starring Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Kenneth Mars, Walter McGinn, Kelly Thordsen and Jim Davis in support. Produced and directed by Alan J. Pakula, its screenplay is by David Giler and Lorenzo Semple Jr., based on the 1970...
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Music 1990s
The String Quintets