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Cohen Berg
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Journalist and filmmaker. Gen Z Winnipegger.
Lover of conversation, creativity, and learning about the world. instagram.com/cohenberg.ca
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Me and some friends watched 23 YouTube short films in a row, a few nights ago. These are the #LastFourWatched.

My favourite from the night: The Man Who Was Afraid Of Falling

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Letterboxd Last Four Watched 1: The Neighbors' Window 2: Cope 3: Cautionary Tales 4: Alternative Math
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky 📽️

1) Second watch, loved it again.
2) Great characters and dialogue, not great ending.
3) INCREDIBLE animation.
4) Short film from a recent film fest.

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1: The Life of Pi, ★★★★ 2: The Long Walk, ★★★★ 3: La Petite Ancêtre ★★★★ 4: Ush ★★★
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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The northern lights last night on my farm in Manitoba 👌
Bright neon green northern lights streaking up from the stark poplar tree horizon across the sky, next to a bright moon. Camera: iPhone 12 mini A dark spruce tree silhouette against a sky almost completely filled with the greenish-blue tint of northern lights. Camera: Nikon D3300
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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CP Newswatch, supposedly “the latest and most important news of the day”

1. Major ceasefire broken by Israel
2. Important baseball game coming up

?????
CP Newswatch podcast headline: Israel strikes in Gaza kill 36 Palestinians, Toronto Blue Jays must-win Game 6 tonight.
October 20, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky 📽️

1) Lots of fun.
2) Had some good moments and messages, hit and miss characters though.
3) Mostly spectacle, but that’s alright cause the spectacle was fantastic.
4) Good not great.

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1: Midnight in Paris 2: After Everything 3: Mad Max Fury Road 4: The Edge of Seventeen
October 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Apparently there's a sunrise... every single morning??
A mostly clouded sunrise perfectly visible through an indent in an out of focus brick wall on the right, a white fence following a gravel road into the horizon on the left, a large tree leaning over the fence silhouetted against the sky. A blurry but perfectly circular rising sun seen through a notch in a brick pillar on a country road, to the left of which a white fence stretches into the horizon, the orange of sunrise spreading across the lower portion of the sky.
October 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Here’s a sunrise from the Canadian prairies to supplement all the politics and chaos in your timeline 🧡

#photography #nature #canada
A soft glowing sun peeking through the needles of a pine branch A blurry, soft sun and fiery orange sky behind stark, silhouetted prairie grass and bush A prairie sunrise, the sun almost completely tucked behind a blanket of clouds above a glowing orange sky, a line forest silhouetted along the horizon Swaths of clouds cutting through a blue and orange prairie sunrise, the sun not visible but its light beautifully highlighting the clouds and silhouetting the poplar forest on the horizon
October 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky 📽️

1) With Veiled Intent by Laurence Olivier
2) Placeholder by Alex Schuurbiers
3) A Poem by Vasilios by Papaiouannu
4) Father Alphonse and the Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Diana Thorneycroft

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October 4, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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#lastfourwatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky 📽️

1) Man Yazewal by Nur Akmel
2) Widow Champion by Zippy Kimundu
3) Anita Louise and the Wild Women by Arena Alamino
4) Comphet by Evan Rivard

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September 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Bluesky’s trending topics accurately sum up the reason I’ve been using this app so much less in the last few months:
The Bluesky trending topics page: all 5 trending topics are categorized under “Politics”
August 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Just went through all 633 sound effects on my computer, slowly collected over the last couple years as a #videoEditor.

Amalgamated, trimmed down, sorted, tagged ✅

Have yet to figure out a naming system, but that’s a project for another day.
A photo of my computer screen, showing all sound effects selected, the number 633 highlighted in red
August 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Wrote this a little while ago about my relationship with my laptop and phone :)
Resist the urge to open the lid, to turn on the screen, to enter the password, to watch just one more, to tap the notification, to check the number, to compare the number, to open the apps that claim they connect us, to scroll one more time, one last time, and far too many times. If I can resist, some pathways will grow stronger and others weaker, and eventually, if I refrain enough, when I reach the intersection again, the path of impulse will be overgrown, unlike the path of conscious objection to my subconscious whim that has no care for fulfillment and every care for the rush of instant and hollow satisfaction.
August 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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SO EXCITED. Will only be able to go to one or two films today, but there are still 4 days to go, so I’ve got lots of time.
#filmFest #GIFF #filmSky
A screenshot of my lock screen, with a notification from Calendar titled “GIMLI FILM FESTIVAL!!” scheduled for Today.
July 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Very fun puzzle game. Takes your mind off greedy billionaires and incompetent politicians 👌
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July 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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I think this is the best video about AI I've ever seen.

#video #ai
June 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Auggie found me (as she always does)

#caturday #cats #catsofbluesky
An out-of-focus brown cat approaching the low-angle camera through sharp, in-focus, tall, green grass, sun lighting up her left side under a blue sky and background of pine trees
May 25, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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When my dog Willow comes within ten feet of me, and my phone is already in hand:
My fluffy white Great Pyrenees (named Willow) tromping toward me through fresh spring grass, the sun peeking through apple and plum trees to backlight Willow and the grass, under a clear blue sky, pine trees along the horizon
May 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Turns out #Winnipeg can be pretty after all.
A soft photo of a bridge crossing the Assiniboine River in Winnipeg near Omand's Park, blurred plants in the foreground, a deep blue and slightly cloudy sky in the background
May 17, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Little late, but here's my #LastFourWatched
📽️ boxd.it/dRsYH :)
My Letterboxd "Recent Activity": Anora (3.5 stars), Civil War (5 stars), Ad Vitam (3.5 stars), Almost Famous (4 stars)
May 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Just cycled 118 km on gravel. Crazy. Feeling great right now, but can't say I'm optimistic about tomorrow. (photo from midway through)
a gravel-and-sand-covered bike and backpack dominating the lower half of a low view of a gravel road stretching out across a lake, trees along the horizon, and stormy grey clouds filling the sky
May 16, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Couldn't be me.
A screenshot of the "Emptying the Trash..." popup on a Macbook: "231,219 items deleted"
May 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Well, that's that.
The Bluesky Trending Topics page, showing Andor at #1, and India-Pakistan at #2.
May 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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According to @altmetric.com, Bluesky users are more original than Twitter/X users. Not surprising 🦋
An infographic showing the ratio of posts, reposts, and quote posts on both X and Bluesky. X is 27.8% original posts and 67.1% reposts. Bluesky is 52.2% original posts and 43.5% reposts. (exact percentages for quote posts are not displayed)
April 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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my first #caturday post: August, in a tree on my farm :)

some hashtags, cause why not:
#spring #farmlife #aesthetic #cats
a cat sitting on the end of a pine tree branch opposite from the camera, which is on the base of the branch by the trunk of the tree. cool tones, with frosty tree branches spreading out behind the cat, who is looking off into the distance over her shoulder, tail wrapped around her.
April 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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My #LastFourWatched for #LetterboxdFriday :)
April 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM