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      • FoodFood has often served as a focalpoint of culture and community in film. Families warmly meet around the dinner table while lovers indulge in opulent feasts. Home cooked meals can evoke comfort, tradition, and sociality but its very absence can point to its commodification and politicization. The richness of food and drink on film asks us to think more closely about its primacy. It asks us to question how lives are shaped by its ubiquity, otherwise taken for granted.
      • Coming of AgeComing of Age stories focus on characters’ seminal shifts and changes. These narratives take place within transitional periods where further realisation of self isn’t necessarily restricted to age. Definitions of maturity vary depending on the nature of change, but we can expect to explore the awkwardness, confusion, and discomfort that is inherent in seeking (or being thrust into) growth.
      • Honour
    • 2021
      • Into the Digital AgeAs we go Into the Digital Age this edition, we will be focusing on the coexistence of humanity and digital technology. Is this relationship conflict oriented, harmonious, or somewhere between the two? This coexistence can be analyzed through historical evolution, science fiction, artificial intelligence (AI), the impacts of neoliberalism, utopias, dystopias, current realities, and imagined futures.
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Author: Elya Myers

Elya Myers is a researcher, writer, and creator having recently graduated with a Specialized BFA in Film Studies at Concordia in Montreal. Her current research and interests orbit around Anime, Animation, Blackness, and race and representation across media. Her recent work at Short Ends Collective, Noir Caesar, and various collaborations with artists reflect these recurring subject(ivitie)s.
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In Conversation: Miryam Charles, Reimagining Grief, and Spaces Inbetween in Cette Maison

28 Oct 202228 Oct 2022
Miryam Charles’ debut feature film Cette Maison had its premiere at the Festival du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal (FNC) on October 9th.  Over the past year, I have been working…
Food

Food Anxieties and Futures in The Divine Fist of the North Star

1 Jul 20221 Jul 2022
The Divine Fist of the North Star (1983-88) is a kick-ass manga series later adapted into an anime (1984-88) that follows a young man named Kenshiro who carries the legacy…
Honour

Honouring Memory & Afrofuturist Legacies in Yasuke

1 Mar 20221 Mar 2022
In every review I’ve read of Netflix’s new release, Yasuke (LeSean Thomas 2021), none has been able to express the cosmic intertwining of friendship, loyalty, and love that spans across…
Into the Digital Age

Reconfiguring Mental Illness & Identity in Serial Experiments Lain 

1 Nov 202124 Feb 2022
CW: Suicide. I don’t need to stay in a place like this.  If you stay in a place like this…  you might not be able to connect. Serial Experiments Lain…
Small Town Stories

I see I: Roots Time

1 Sep 20211 Sep 2021
Often I have heard, “Myers dat name soun familiar... A yuh related tuh—?” and, “Yuh nuh wa fi guh dung tuh dat part of Jamaica. Di Myers name a luk…
Buddy Films

Sibling Friendships & Dog’s Breakfasts in Adventure Time

1 Jul 202130 Aug 2021
If you have siblings like mine, chances are that they were your first buddies. They are also the people you learned to navigate around, get along with through thick and…
Underdogs

Refusing the Underdog: Blackness as Wayward Belonging in Shaft

1 May 202130 Aug 2021
What I admire about Shaft, the man himself, or the man who he was created to be, is his infectious confidence and wayward attitude—beholden to no one or any one…
New Beginnings

Sisters in the Struggle: Beyond Narratives of Resistance

1 Mar 20219 May 2022
"What are you?" "Where do you come from?" "Where does your family come from?" Though I may be part of the same, I am recognized as other. Though I may…

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