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Now showing — Frames · 5 works

  • The 400 Blows Film · 1950s

    A troubled Parisian boy's struggle against family and school. The iconic final freeze frame.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • Scheherazade tells stories to survive. The frame narrative that contains an entire civilization.

    After-hoursMemoryMigration
  • When Marnie Was There Anime · 2010s

    During a Literature Club meeting, the four club members—along with their faculty adviser's niece—suddenly find themselves with supernatural powers. Now capable of fabricating black flames, resident chuunibyou Jurai Andou is the most ecstatic about their new abilities; unfortunately, his own is only for show and unab...

    FolkloreAfter-hoursPower
  • Anti Music · 2010s

    Rihanna's most personal album. Island melancholy meets pop experimentation.

    After-hoursIdentityLonging
  • Primitive Passions Essays · 1990s

    Rey Chow's reading of ethnic cinema and translation — the conceptual frame behind a generation of Hong Kong film studies.

    ModernityResistanceIdentity
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  • Primitive Passions Essays
  • Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences Essays
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  • When Marnie Was There Anime
  • The 400 Blows Film