February 2021 – The Wonder List

Cinematic Wonder

The Candy Toned Melancholy of Umbrellas of Cherbourg

by Emma Kansiz / February 16, 2021August 20, 2021

“I would have died for him. So why aren’t I dead?” Latent with visual melancholy, the sweeping gestures of romance …

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The Aesthetic Wonder

Mortal Canvas: A Hauntological Visual Rendering of the Rubaiyat

by Emma Kansiz / February 11, 2021August 20, 2021

Hauntology, coined by French philosopher Jacques Derrida, has been defined by cultural academics as ‘a nostalgia for lost futures’. In …

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