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Now showing — Frame of Reference · 5 works

  • Illinois Music · 2000s

    Illinois is the fifth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens. It features songs referencing places, events, and persons related to the U.S. state of Illinois. Illinois is Stevens' second based on a U.S. state—part of a planned series of fifty that began with the 2003 album Michigan and that St...

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  • Ladies of the Canyon Music · 1970s

    Ladies of the Canyon is the third studio album by the Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released on Reprise Records in 1970. It peaked at No. 27 on the Billboard 200, and has been certified platinum by the RIAA. The title makes reference to Laurel Canyon, a center of popular music culture in Los Angeles duri...

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  • 1919 film by Gunnar Sommerfeldt

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  • An Angel at My Table Film · 1990s

    The life of Janet Frame: misdiagnosed, institutionalized, and triumphant as a writer.

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  • Gödel, Escher, Bach Essays · 1970s

    Self-reference, strange loops, and the emergence of meaning. Mathematics, art, and music as mirrors of consciousness.

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