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The Street of Crocodiles
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Urban isolationAfter-hoursPowerSurveillance
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Urban isolationAfter-hoursPower
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Made in Hong Kong
Film
Made in Hong Kong
Carries a strong pull into music through urban isolation and after-hours.
Queer as Folk
Television
Queer as Folk
Carries a strong pull into music through urban isolation and after-hours.
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Clandestino
Music
Clandestino
Carries a strong pull into television through urban isolation and after-hours.
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Homicide Life on the Street OST
Carries a strong pull into television through urban isolation and after-hours.
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The Practice of Everyday Life
Essays
The Practice of Everyday Life
Carries a strong pull into books through urban isolation and South Asia.
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Essays 1980s
The Practice of Everyday Life
The Practice of Everyday Life is a book by Michel de Certeau that examines the ways in which people individualise mass culture, altering things, from utilitarian objects to street plans to rituals, laws and language, in order to make them their own. It was originally published in French as L'invention du quotidien....
RitualUrban isolationModernityResistance
Queer as Folk
Television 1990s
Queer as Folk
Queer as Folk is a 1999 British television series that chronicles the lives of three gay men living in Manchester's gay village around Canal Street. Initially running for eight episodes, a two-part follow up was shown in 2000. It was written by Russell T Davies and produced by Red Production Company for Channel 4.
Urban isolationPowerSurveillanceAfter-hours
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Books 1960s
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Last Exit to Brooklyn is a raw depiction of life amongst New York's junkies, hustlers, drag queens and prostitutes. An unforgettable cast of characters inhabits the housing projects, bars and streets of Brooklyn: Georgette, a hopelessly romantic and tormented transvestite; Vinnie, a disaffected and volatile youth wh...
Urban isolationAfter-hoursPowerMemory
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Music 1990s
Homicide Life on the Street OST
Urban isolationAfter-hoursLonging
Tekkonkinkreet
Anime 2000s
Tekkonkinkreet
The streets of Treasure Town are said to belong to "The Cats." They know everything that goes on in the city, and no one can stir up trouble without going through them first. In reality, The Cats are a pair of orphan boys called Black and White, who aren’t afraid of anything or anyone. But their rule of the streets...
Urban isolationPowerFolkloreIdentity
Made in Hong Kong
Film 1990s
Made in Hong Kong
Youth drift, street abrasion, and emotional damage unfold at the edge of handover-era Hong Kong.
Urban isolationAfter-hoursLongingMemory