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The filmmaker and the flâneur—In conversation with Shirley Yumeng He faithfulcorrespondence.com/2025/02/08/t...
The filmmaker and the flâneur—In conversation with Shirley Yumeng He
An interview with filmmaker Shirley Yumeng He about her latest work, The Other Side of the Mountain
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February 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Even though I don't love the sun, I wish for sunnier days. faithfulcorrespondence.com/2024/12/31/v...
Vignettes
I thought I might write something at the end of the year.
faithfulcorrespondence.com
December 31, 2024 at 9:43 PM
I was so pleased to speak with Parastoo Anoushahpour about her film, The Time That Separates Us, for Peripheral Review. An intimacy of thoughtful intention is foregrounded in the exploration of subjectivities in mediated landscapes in Jordan and Palestine.

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Precious Elements: In Conversation with Parastoo Anoushahpour - Peripheral Review
I can’t say for certain why Parastoo Anoushahpour’s recent film The Time That Separates Us (2022) absorbed my attentions. In the spring, I found myself on the edge of the University of Toronto’s...
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February 3, 2024 at 10:49 PM
"For Duras, cinema was the place of ultimate refusal, defined by 'being trapped in the dark with an image.' The only films worth making were those that tore through the deceits and delusions of cinema."
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The Path of Cheerful Despair: On Marguerite Duras’s “My Cinema” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Isabella Trimboli reviews a new translation of Marguerite Duras’s work on cinema....
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January 21, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Re-reading Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism by Amelia Horgan. Against a narrative of 'progress' around work and a dissection of the many maladies that pervade modern work of all kinds, through the lens of the UK at the height of the pandemic.

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Lost in Work
***Evening Standard's best non-fiction 2021*** 'A brilliant, searing exposé of the lies underpinning work' - Owen Jones 'Work hard, get paid.' It's si...
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January 12, 2024 at 7:15 PM
John Berger on states of forgetfulness, media and capital, ca. 2015: "It is a voice at home with digits but not with living or suffering bodies. It does not speak of either regrets or hopes."

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January 12, 2024 at 7:10 PM
What I need in the new year––Dionne Brand saying 'I have no use for nostalgia' and more on an ethos of poetry, ambitions around language: tinhouse.com/transcript/b...
Between the Covers Dionne Brand Interview - Tin House
David Naimon: Today’s episode is brought to you by Prince Shakur’s When They Tell You To Be Good, a debut memoir that brilliantly minds Shakur’s radicalization and self-realization through exami...
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January 7, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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"One has a sense as one observes bodies in Diaspora, virtuosity or despair, on the brink of both...

That one, a boy still, limbs longer than he can handle, eyes more shy than he wants to reveal. He'll be shocked into hardness any time now..." 2/3

- Dionne Brand

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
October 11, 2023 at 11:49 AM
A belated post about my conversation with Shasha Li and her debut film, Heaven Rain Flows Sweetly, a homophone in Mandarin for the Nakhi phrase, "Go read." faithfulcorrespondence.com/2023/12/21/g...
January 7, 2024 at 6:25 PM