Journal — reading the cultural index

Atlas · Constellation · Currents

The .field map.

Aravien filed by region and era, not by genre. Fifteen cities, in dialogue. Switch views to see the atlas as a grid, a star chart of points and lines, the currents that connect them, or the time-lapse of how they wax and wane.

15Regions

15Currents

10Decades

15 regions

Tokyo

412 works

A threshold city of memory and nocturnal movement.

35°N · 139°E

Hong Kong

168 works

Corridors, neon, the architecture of withheld desire.

22°N · 114°E

Seoul

204 works

The most vital national cinema of the 21st century.

37°N · 126°E

The city that absorbs everything and transforms it.

40°N · 74°W

Stockholm

78 works

59°N · 18°E

Tehran

124 works

Restraint and moral pressure on the frame.

35°N · 51°E

Buenos Aires

96 works

34°S · 58°W

Berlin

188 works

Post-war architecture as plot device.

52°N · 13°E

Mumbai

102 works

19°N · 72°E

Paris

274 works

Cinema’s first home; never quite released.

48°N · 2°E

Taipei

88 works

25°N · 121°E

Bogotá

54 works

4°N · 74°W

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