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Now showing — An Exercise in Self-Sufficiency · 5 works

  • 40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy is a 2009 film from United States, associated with Robert Lemelson. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata sh...

    After-hoursMemoryPower
  • Outline Books · 2010s

    Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and stark, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing during an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinners and discourse. She goes swimming with an elde...

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • The Life of an Amorous Man is a 1682 book by Ihara Saikaku, linked to Japan and Japanese. It keeps the reading field grounded in identifiable authorship and place.

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • An Autumn Afternoon Film · 1960s

    An aging widower realizes he must let his daughter marry. Ozu's final film.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • An Era of Darkness Books · 2010s

    What the British did to India. The costs of colonialism argued with precision and controlled rage.

    SurveillanceMemoryMigration
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