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There Is a Balm in Gilead
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After-hoursUrban isolationIdentityMemory
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Music for 18 Musicians
Music
Music for 18 Musicians
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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There Is a Balm in Gilead
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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These Precious Days
Essays
These Precious Days
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and South Asia.
Cruising Utopia
Essays
Cruising Utopia
Carries a strong pull into books through migration and South Asia.
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When Marnie Was There
Anime
When Marnie Was There
Carries a strong pull into books through folklore and power.
Derry Girls
Television
Derry Girls
Carries a strong pull into books through power and South Asia.
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Three Colours: Blue
Film 1990s
Three Colours: Blue
Three Colours: Blue is a 1993 film from France, Poland, and Switzerland, associated with Krzysztof Kieślowski. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata sh...
After-hoursMemoryLongingUrban isolation
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Essays 2000s
Cruising Utopia
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity is a book in the field of queer theory by José Esteban Muñoz, published in 2009.
ModernityResistanceIdentityMigration
Derry Girls
Television 2010s
Derry Girls
Derry Girls is a period teen sitcom set in Derry, Northern Ireland, created and written by Lisa McGee, that premiered on 4 January 2018 on UK-based broadcaster Channel 4 and ran for three series. The channel's most successful comedy since Father Ted, the series was inspired by McGee's own experiences growing up in a...
PowerSurveillanceUrban isolationAfter-hours
A Tale for the Time Being
Books 2010s
A Tale for the Time Being
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, she plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace. Across the Pacific a novelist...
PowerMemoryMigrationFolklore
Welcome to the N.H.K.
Anime 2000s
Welcome to the N.H.K.
Twenty-two-year-old college dropout Tatsuhiro Satou has been a hikikomori for almost four years now. In his isolation, he has come to believe in many obscure conspiracy theories, but there is one in particular which he holds unshakable faith in: the theory that the evil conspirator behind his shut-in NEET (Not in Em...
Urban isolationFolkloreIdentitySurveillance
Three Colours: Red
Film 1990s
Three Colours: Red
Three Colours: Red is a 1994 film from France, Poland, and Switzerland, associated with Krzysztof Kieślowski. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
After-hoursMemoryLongingUrban isolation