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Essays

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Lumumba’s Speech: Lessons in Seizing the Archive

by Orsod Malik

Side profile of a man with glasses eating a sandwich

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“I am a bit fed up with AIDS, AIDS, AIDS!”: Stuart Marshall and AIDS Activist Video 1.0 + 2.0 (extract).

by Conal McStravick

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The Path to Resonance

by Eri Makihara

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Intimate Exchanges: The Films of Ayanna Dozier

by Hannah Bonner

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The Temporal Entanglements of Assia Djebar’s The Zerda and the Songs of Forgetting

by Philip Rizk

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On the edge, balancing: Marion Scemama’s Relax Be Cruel

by Al Hoyos-Twomey

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Poem as Photon Returning to Audience

by Sarona Abuaker

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A correspondence with barrunto, an embodied sense of prescience, and barrunto (2024) a film by Emilia Beatriz

by Daniella Valz Gen

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Libretto

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This Transient Resistance: on Fujisawa Isao’s Bye Bye Love

by Ren Scateni

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A topography of portals

by Ilinca Vânău

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Negativeland • Terminal USA, dir. Jon Moritsugu

by Girish Shambu

Picture this Asian American family sitcom: Mom is a morphine addict. Dad is secretly homicidal. The daughter is a cheerleader who gets pregnant and is being blackmailed over a sex tape. Two sons: one a drug dealer and the other a studious nerd who secretly lusts after skinheads.

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Small Change

by Kenya Sterling

A young man walks alone down a dirt path with tall, dirt embankments on either side and a treeline behind him. He carries a bag over his left shoulder and stares expressionless ahead.

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An intro to Amma Ariyan / Report to Mother

by Omar Ahmed

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Foraging in the Ruins: Nguyễn Trinh Thi’s mycological moving image practice

by Philippa Lovatt

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Hair is a Piece of Head

by Sung Hwan Kim

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On the Inside after Back Inside Herself by S. Pearl Sharp

by Sarah Lasoye

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An offering: Trust

by Jamila Prowse

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Back Inside Ourselves: a gathering

by the ones that went inside

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FANFIC!

by Zarina Muhammad

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A litany, inspired by Audre Lorde’s “Litany for Survival”

by Laila Malik

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APHOTIC VAPORS/YOU HAVE JUST BEEN ERASED

by Joshua Solondz

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Filming Palestine in the Present

by Azza El Hassan

In a clearing in a wooded area, a young woman in a white dress is chained by her hands to a tree while three men wearing tunics and bare legs look onto a phallus-shaped canon shooting smoke into the air.

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Fairytale, Folktale, Fable: charting the fantastik through international cinema

by Herb Shellenberger

A photograph of white, dome-shaped tents and a row of trees in a semi-circle sits atop a white cloth embroidered with pink and green flowers.

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Marwa Arsanios: An image of our making

by Tendai John Mutambu

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Kira Muratova’s Searing World

by Elena Gorfinkel

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Giving Time: George Clark’s ‘Double Ghosts’ and the Alter-Politics of Film

by Fang-Tze Hsu

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Animistic Apparatus: Stories of Encounters

by May Adadol Ingawanij

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Translating unspoken words: On death, the erotic, and translation in Lisa Spilliaert’s N.P

by Ren Scateni

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What has not yet come: On climate crisis, colonialism, displacement, and ancestral inheritance in This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection

by Natasha Thembiso Ruwona