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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: New Beginnings

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…
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…
New Beginnings

Lust for Life, Not Nostalgia

1 Mar 20217 Feb 2022
Primarily dealing with the hardships of poverty, societal and consumerist rejection in an overpopulated, lower-class neighbourhood of Edinburgh, Trainspotting (1996) defined the Generation X of Scotland. The hybridity of the…
New Beginnings

Man vs Wild

1 Mar 202130 Aug 2021
Written under the context of Canadian Cinema Seminar at Concordia University. When you think about Vancouver, you are most likely thinking of people living amongst beautiful scenery in harmony with…
New Beginnings

The Erasure of Marginalized Groups in British Columbian Land and Media

1 Mar 202130 Aug 2021
Written under the context of Canadian Cinema Seminar at Concordia University. The province of British Columbia is home to the most diverse population in the country. Native Americans as well…
New Beginnings

His Motorbike, Her Island: Becoming the Wind

1 Mar 202130 Aug 2021
“The heart is a willful thing. By the time something from the past is buried, another story has already begun.” Nobuhiko Obayashi is a director who has been, and continues…

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