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Now showing — We the Animals · 5 works

  • What We Do in the Shadows is a 2014 film from New Zealand, associated with Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement. 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
  • In Colour Music · 2010s

    In Colour is the debut studio album by English producer Jamie xx, released on 29 May 2015 by Young Turks. The album was composed during a five-year period while a member of the indie pop band the xx, starting with his production on xx in 2009. After starting his solo career with the remix album We're New Here (2011)...

    After-hoursLonging
  • When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is a 2019 album associated with Billie Eilish and Darkroom. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.

    After-hoursLonging
  • Snow Crash Books · 1990s

    Within the Metaverse, Hiro is offered a datafile named Snow Crash by a man named Raven who hints that it is a form of narcotic. Hiro's friend and fellow hacker Da5id views a bitmap image contained in the file which causes his computer to crash and Da5id to suffer brain damage in the real world. This is the future we...

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  • Speak Books · 1990s

    "Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk...

    IdentityNaturePower
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  • What We Do in the Shadows Film
  • We Own This City Television
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  • In Colour Music
  • When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? Music
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  • The Future of Nostalgia Essays
  • The Souls of Black Folk Essays