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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.
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…
Buddy Films

Fleeting Friendship Rituals

1 Jul 202130 Aug 2021
Not so long ago I found myself on a smoky terrace surrounded by a handful of faces I did not recognize. In my hand, a near-empty can of beer protected…
Underdogs

Rolling with the punches: underdogs and losers in Rocky and Fat City

1 May 202130 Aug 2021
Let me tell you the condensed history of my relationship to my hometown team. Until a couple of years ago my hometown team had not won anything since the 1980s.…
New Beginnings

Shizuku’s dream: Passion and individuality in Whisper of the Heart

1 Mar 202130 Aug 2021
There are just a handful of films that can pack so many layers into one condensed cinematic space as Yoshifumi Kondo’s 1995 animated film Whisper of the Heart. There are…

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