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Emma Kansiz
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September 4, 2023 Three Imaginary Boys reconciles the iconography of modernity with a distinctly postmodern sensibility. Functionality is reimagined as intimacy. Suspended between …
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Emma Kansiz
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May 2, 2023May 4, 2023 They Live offers a lively take down on the mores of consumer culture and urban conformity without the eye roll …
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Emma Kansiz
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April 26, 2023April 28, 2023 The mystery of Repo Man is how it fares so well, considering how boisterous, belligerent, and ridiculous it is. It …
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Emma Kansiz
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April 23, 2023April 28, 2023 Throw every abstract color in its most vibrant iteration, esoteric mysticism, and pagan symbolism into a hurricane and wait for …
Continue reading “The Maddeningly Original Surrealist Vision of Holy Mountain”
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Emma Kansiz
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April 23, 2023April 29, 2023 The best glimpse of the driving motif underpinning the disjointed encounters of Slacker comes courtesy of a Dostoevsky acolyte cum …
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Emma Kansiz
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April 18, 2023April 29, 2023 “Because you’re looking at your inner self and you don’t recognize it because you’ve never seen it before” Drugstore Cowboy …
Continue reading “The Motel Room Narcissism of Drugstore Cowboy”
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Emma Kansiz
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April 11, 2023May 4, 2023 “I always know where I am by how the road looks” My Own Private Idaho is a dreamtime dreamscape, punctuated …
Continue reading “Vistas of Longing: My Own Private Idaho and the Geography of Emptiness”
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Emma Kansiz
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December 22, 2022December 22, 2022 Wings of Desire is a visual poem that reflects most eloquently the currents of memory, the contours of longing, and …
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Emma Kansiz
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June 26, 2022 Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities It …
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Emma Kansiz
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June 10, 2022 They must always be accurate but never true * The power of the culture industry’s ideology is such that conformity …
