Author: sara
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In Conversation with Cecelia Condit
Introduction Cecelia Condit, director of the brilliant musical fairy tale, Possibly in Michigan, is above all a lover of camaraderie among women. When I first became interested in her as an artist, I was so excited about how beautifully she was able to encapsulate some of the most inexplicable horrors of womanhood. In Suburbs of…
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Gossip Event Trailer Launched
July 17 2024 @ Charles Street Video (6 Geary Ave, Toronto) We had a gossip event with a confessional booth! The point was to give our friends a space where they could confess their real life tea reality TV style, and to then use that footage to make a reality TV episode about the party.…
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The End-TIFF 24 Review
Oppenheimer’s “The End” is the defining musical of our era. Future philosophers will be confused when we talk about the “allegory of the cave” – that’s how big of an impact this film will have on culture. Only seasoned Cassavetes and Cop Rock fans will appreciate Oppenheimer’s artistic pacing. The pacing itself is a character.…
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LIVE UPDATES: Canadian College Students are Camping out to Protest Israel’s Assault on Gaza
UPDATED June 7, 2024 Context Since October 7, 2023, millions of people have been gathering across the world to protest the genocide in Gaza. And yet the genocide roars on, and Canada is still one of the key countries offering financial support to Israel. On April 17, 2024 students from Columbia University started an on…
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The Best Movies of 2023
I watched some movies this year that were so good that they deserved to be on a list, and even though the movies I’ve listed are surely on some lists already, I thought I’d at least reiterate how good they are, and hopefully my list will be the final push to get you to watch…
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Internalized Misinformation: What Fargo’s Season 3 says about objectivity.
Each character in Fargo’s third season holds a personal truth that is part of a constellation of truths that governs the show’s overall structure. Misinformation rules each character, rendering them unable to reconcile objective truth with the misinformation through which everything around them is filtered. So then the two traditional intertwined central plots, an international…
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note + message board
The last 28 days have been inexplicably heartbreaking. Israel has massacred thousands of innocent people. There is still no hope of a ceasefire or an end to the occupation. If anything, it looks like today they will have the heaviest bombardment yet. I like to think that though it is possible to kill the people…
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