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Now showing — Melancholia · 5 works

  • The 3 Rooms of Melancholia is a 2004 film from Finland, Sweden, and Denmark, associated with Pirjo Honkasalo. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.

    After-hoursMemoryLonging
  • Werckmeister Harmonies is a 2000 Hungarian drama film directed by Béla Tarr and co-directed by Ágnes Hranitzky, based on the 1989 novel The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai. Shot in black-and-white and composed of thirty-nine languidly paced shots, the film portrays the life of János and his uncle Gy...

    ResistanceAfter-hoursLonging
  • Anti Music · 2010s

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

    After-hoursIdentityLonging
  • Chainsaw Man Anime · 2020s

    A boy merges with a chainsaw devil. Ultraviolent, melancholy, and deeply original shonen.

    FolkloreIdentitySurveillance
  • The Rings of Saturn Books · 1990s

    A walking tour of coastal Suffolk becomes a meditation on decay, colonial violence, memory, and the entropy of civilization.

    MemoryPowerMigration
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Books that echo Melancholia
  • The Rings of Saturn Books
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  • Since I Left You Music
  • The Queen Is Dead Music
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  • The 3 Rooms of Melancholia Film
  • Werckmeister Harmonies Film