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Skate Kitchen 2018
I mean, it’s bumpy, but it’s still great!
Film 7/7 for my MA project. Bodies moving together forming new relationscapes and ‘bloom spaces.’
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always 2020
Film 5/7 for MA project. Never Rarely Sometimes Always is still so devastating, so full of exhaustion, dread, and heaviness. Some of girlhood’s worst moments conveyed through the film’s hapticity, affectivity, soundscape, and emphasis on embodiment. Nothing uplifting about this film, except for knowing that it exists.
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Peppermint Soda 1977
A film about how French pre-teens will always manage to be cooler than me at any age.
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Nomadland 2020
My only TIFF ticket this year, and I made the right choice. Chloe Zhao's Nomadland is a gift that makes you want to live, explore, and take care of the world. It a story of the post-industrial Southwest, grief, travel, class, and resilience. Frances McDormand's smile lights up the screen, even when she is fighting back tears. The Badlands look otherworldly. It's romantic without romanticising, a strange compote of beauty and decay and hopefulness that neither reroutes its characters toward…
