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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.
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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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Tag: diaspora

Outtakes

Return to Seoul: A Ballad of Anger and Recognition 

13 Mar 2023
Bright neon lights shine on Freddie’s face as she is dancing alone through a half-empty bar in Seoul. Even as her body moves frantically, her face seems to have no…
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…
Honour

When Spirits Come To Visit

1 Mar 20221 Mar 2022
When was the first time you encountered a spirit? Mine was many years ago. I remember one night when my mom made dinner for an extra person. Before she sat…
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…

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