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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 — The First Olympics: Athens 1896 · 5 works

  • 30 Days Film · 2000s

    A Lagos woman is told her husband has thirty days to live. Okwo's Nollywood drama — one of the first to cross over to international festivals.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
  • Don Quixote Books · 1600s

    A man who reads too many romances rides out as a knight. The first modern novel.

    LongingAfter-hoursModernity
  • Rectify Television · 2010s

    Rectify is an American television Southern Gothic drama series exploring the life of a man after he is released from prison after nearly 20 years on death row following a wrongful conviction. It was created by Ray McKinnon and is the first original series from Sundance TV. It stars Aden Young, Abigail Spencer, J. Sm...

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • Ambient 1: Music for Airports is a studio album by the English musician Brian Eno. It was released in February 1979 through E.G. Records and Polydor Records. It was the first Eno album released under the label of ambient music, a genre intended to "induce calm and a space to think" while remaining "as ignorable as i...

    After-hoursLonging
  • Interview with the Vampire Television · 2020s

    Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, or simply Interview with the Vampire, is an American gothic horror television series developed by Rolin Jones for AMC, based on The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, named after the first book. Starring Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac and Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncour...

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
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