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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.
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    • 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: Juan Ospina

Juan Ospina is a regular contributor as well as a co-founder of Short Ends Collective. He holds a BFA in Film Studies at Concordia University where he graduated with Honors. His interests encompass New Wave cinemas, the Gangster genre, Anime, Latin-American films and, as a rule, movies that make him cry.
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…
Profiles

In Conversation: Deco Dawson, Diaspora, and the Universalness of Solitude

28 Oct 202228 Oct 2022
In the frame of the Festival de Nouveau Cinema, I was able to interview Canadian filmmaker Deco Dawson. The 8th of October had a chilly morning and overcast skies, an…
Outtakes

Festival Spotlight: FNC 2022

19 Oct 20228 Nov 2022
Short Ends had the pleasure to attend the latest edition of the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC). Although the festival has come and gone, these are the films that left an indelible…
Coming of Age

Growing Up into A Giant

1 May 20221 May 2022
Dear Dad, Do you remember us racing every Sunday to get to the Blockbuster? You used to say that whoever got there first could choose the movies we were watching…
Outtakes

Paddington’s Plight: Contended Homes

24 Mar 2022
I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages.…
Honour

To Die for Love: A Parallel Study of Honour in the Western

1 Mar 20221 Mar 2022
I am an avid Western film consumer, or at least I was at some point in my life. For me, the Western has always been about honour. Honour is a…
Outtakes

Festival Spotlight: RIDM 2021

1 Dec 20217 Feb 2022
Short Ends had the pleasure to attend (in-person & virtually) the latest edition of the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaires de Montréal (RIDM). Although the festival has come and gone, these…
Into the Digital Age

Personal Footage v. Archive: Digital Footprints and Documentary

1 Nov 202131 Oct 2021
A couple of weeks ago, before I started writing this piece, I stumbled upon a realization. I was outside of my workplace, in one of the rare short breaks I…
Outtakes

Festival Spotlight: FNC 2021

31 Oct 20217 Feb 2022
Short Ends had the pleasure to attend (in-person & virtually) the latest edition of the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC). Although the festival has come and gone, these are six films that…
Small Town Stories

Only Dogs go to Heaven

1 Sep 202130 Aug 2021
In the small town of La Boca, Chile, where there seems to be nothing but a handful of residences by the seaside, one of the houses stands out from the…

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