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Use this room when you already know the kind of cultural terrain you want to inspect. For guided orientation, open the Field Map or begin with a pathway.

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Now showing — Camera Lucida · 5 works

  • 5 Broken Cameras Film · 2010s

    A Palestinian farmer documents the weekly protests against the barrier through five cameras, each destroyed by soldiers. Oscar-nominated and viscerally direct.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • ABC Africa Film · 2000s

    Kiarostami visits Uganda to document AIDS orphans and finds himself questioning what his camera can and cannot do. An essayistic DV diary.

    IdentityAfter-hoursLonging
  • Fleabag Television · 2010s

    A woman addresses the camera while her life unravels. Grief, desire, and the fourth wall.

    LongingPowerSurveillance
  • A day in a Soviet city. Cinema itself as subject. The most experimental silent film.

    Urban isolationIdentityAfter-hours
  • Camera Lucida Essays · 1980s

    A concise critical work on photography, grief, memory, and how images hold emotional knowledge.

    MemoryAfter-hoursModernity
Also in the field · 3
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  • La Bona Notte: Musica de Camera de Luigi Boccherini Music
  • Le Quattro Stagioni, La Tempesta di mare, La Caccia (Salvatore Accardo e l'Orchestra da Camera Italiana) Music
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  • ABC Africa Film
  • 5 Broken Cameras Film