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Reads tagged with “film”

Postcards to Alphaville: A Love Letter to Film
Postcards to Alphaville: A Love Letter to Film

Sketching Woody Allen, or what Sigourney Weaver has to do with watercolor.

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Opening Up the Hitchcock and Lang Archives
Opening Up the Hitchcock and Lang Archives

What silent film has to do with sci-fi classics and the democratization of media.

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Life in a Day: Google Crowdsources Humanity
Life in a Day: Google Crowdsources Humanity

Documenting the world, or how to take one of 6.7 billion pathways to Sundance.

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Razzle Dazzle: The Fabrication of Fame
Razzle Dazzle: The Fabrication of Fame

Parasites, heroes, and what our primal desires have to do with Frank Sinatra.

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5 Seminal Vintage Russian Animation Short Films
5 Seminal Vintage Russian Animation Short Films

What dancing ballerinas and hungry kings have to do with the dawn of the digital age.

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Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot, Animated
Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot, Animated

What the speed of light has to do with the reinvention of agriculture and our fear of tininess.

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The War Prayer: Mark Twain on War and Morality, Animated
The War Prayer: Mark Twain on War and Morality, Animated

“None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.”

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Blu is Back: The Story of Evolution, Told in Graffiti
Blu is Back: The Story of Evolution, Told in Graffiti

Lo-fi Darwinism, or why art and algorithm don’t hold hands on Buenos Aires sidewalks.

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Waiting for “Superman”: Education by the Numbers
Waiting for “Superman”: Education by the Numbers

Why 26 seconds are enough to end up in prison, or what Superman has to do with the economy.

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Press Pause Play: The Evolving Creative Landscape
Press Pause Play: The Evolving Creative Landscape

From basement art to media glory, or why ones and zeros are the new chalk.

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