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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 Year of Magical Thinking · 5 works

  • Top of the Lake Television · 2010s

    A detective investigates a pregnant 12-year-old's disappearance in the New Zealand wilderness.

    PowerSurveillanceUrban isolation
  • 18-Year-Old Virgin Film · 2000s

    18-Year-Old Virgin is a 2009 film from United States, associated with Tamara Olson. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.

    After-hoursMemoryPower
  • In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, she plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace. Across the Pacific a novelist...

    PowerMemoryMigration
  • Hospice Music · 2000s

    Hospice is the third studio album by American indie rock band The Antlers, and their first concept album. It was initially self-distributed by the band in March 2009, and was eventually remastered and re-released once they signed to Frenchkiss Records in August of the same year.

    IdentityAfter-hoursLonging
  • Do the Right Thing Film · 1980s

    The hottest day of the year in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Race, community, and the breaking point.

    PowerAfter-hoursLonging
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