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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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      • 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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Category: Habitats

Tracing its roots from the Latin word habēre–to have or hold–a habitat is a space which we call our own. It creates territories that connect us. Its borders encourage relationships between innumerable living beings in a biome or on a smaller scale, families sharing a home. These same lines also segregate ourselves from others. A species introduced to a new area can decimate the local ecology. The familiar and foreign places become sites of violence and destruction as we choose to look away. What kinds of habitats emerge on screen? How do we hold landscapes with the camera and what does it mean for the beings who also reside there?

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…
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

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

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

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…

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