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Now showing — Bleak Seasons: Book One of Glittering Stone · 5 works

  • Booksmart Film · 2010s

    Booksmart is a 2019 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by Olivia Wilde and written by Emily Halpern, Sarah Haskins, Susanna Fogel, and Katie Silberman. It stars Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever as two graduating high school girls who set out to finally break the rules and party on their last day of classe...

    PowerAfter-hoursLonging
  • Rosetta Film · 1990s

    Rosetta is a 1999 coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. The film follows the story of a teenager, residing in a caravan park with her alcoholic mother. In her quest for survival and a better life, she tirelessly seeks employment in order to break free from her tumultuous livi...

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • Aethiopes Music · 2020s

    Underground hip-hop at its most literary and bleak. Preservation as producer, woods as poet.

    PowerAfter-hoursLonging
  • Four people in a northern Chinese city endure one bleak day. The director's only film before his death.

    Urban isolationAfter-hoursLonging
  • The Queer Art of Failure Essays · 2010s

    "The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to con...

    ModernityResistanceIdentity
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