Outtakes Return to Seoul: A Ballad of Anger and Recognition 13 Mar 2023 Bright neon lights shine on Freddie’s face as she is dancing alone through a half-empty bar in Seoul. Even as her body moves frantically, her face seems to have no…
Habitats Magical Realism & Felt Realities of Afro-Pessimism in Atlanta 1 Mar 20231 Mar 2023 Prolific American Black queer poet, Audre Lorde, once said in her collection Sister Outsider: Speeches and Essays, “For there are no new ideas. There only new ways of making them…
Habitats Home, Happiness, Microhabitats 1 Mar 202328 Feb 2023 Often, I find myself debating alone on a barstool, wondering if I should order a pint of beer or if I should go home. Although home is not the correct…
Habitats Home is where the Fart is: Swiss Army Man 1 Mar 202328 Feb 2023 Every person is an island. No matter how big the world seems, no matter how far reaching our stories are, ultimately our lives are insular. Specific, distinct, devoid from others.…
Habitats John Wick: A Killer’s Natural Habitat 1 Mar 202328 Feb 2023 Spoiler/Content Warning: The dog dies. I’ve been looking for an excuse to write about the John Wick franchise for Short Ends, so with the fourth movie hitting theaters later this…
Habitats Rehearsing Uncertainty in The Rehearsal 1 Mar 20231 Mar 2023 I’m an overthinker. Oftentimes, I’m distracted by everyday situations. Yesterday’s encounter, where I bumbled my way through ordering a latte, only to get a filter coffee and refused to confront…
Habitats Yuri’s Day: Site of Resignation 1 Mar 202328 Feb 2023 In the films of Kirill Serebrennikov, space is represented as having a consciousness of its own, where the social and cultural norms of a given environment often render the characters…
Habitats The Peripheral Habitats and Social Alienation of La Haine 1 Mar 202328 Feb 2023 La Haine (EN: Hate) (1995, dir. Matthieu Kassovitz) is a film about habitats as both a physical and sociological space. The space that the characters live represents both a tool…
Habitats Put the Knife in your Eye: The Corrupted Habitat of Skinamarink 1 Mar 202328 Feb 2023 I have a certain amount of misplaced nostalgia for a specific moment of childhood sickness. Time has since blurred the details, eliding the tangible discomfort and pain in favour of…
Profiles In Conversation: Germán Gutiérrez, untouched territories and trustful histories. 18 Jan 2023 Colombia has one of the most complex yet unexplored histories in South America, it is an endeavour of its own just to try to explain in the most stripped-down conversational…
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