Exploring William Gibson's world of slipstream chrome and retro futuristic architecture in The Gernsback Continuum, a harrowing portrayal of the American tomorrow that never was.

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Music by Blue Dot Sessions
- Median Point
- Cold Summers
- Pastel de Nata

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Exploring what The Master  has to say about animalistic nature, the pain of memory, and cultish figureheads in Paul Thomas Anderson's 2012 psychological drama.

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Music by Blue Dot Sessions
- Our Fingers Cold
- Douglass Stairs
- Drone Pine

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Exploring how Aronofsky's Black Swan portrays the ruthlessness, pain, and trauma in ballet that manifests itself in Nina throughout her pursuit of perfection.

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- Heavenstill
- Krok
- Tarte Tatin
- Fourteen Count

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Exploring how Portrait of Lady on Fire by Céline Sciamma uses representations of love through art and memory to depict how inevitable heartbreak manifests itself within Marianne and Héloïse.

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- Vela Vela
- Arlan Vale
- Frank and Poety
- Matamoscas

Music:
Vivladi
- The Four Seasons  - Summer - Presto

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Exploring what the science fiction short story The Belonging Kind by William Gibson and John Shirley has to say about humans as social beings, the alien language of conversation, and the personification of conformity.

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- Single Still
- Vulcan Street
- Hardtop Rocks
- Glass Stopper

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Exploring how the Hayao Miyazaki film Castle in the Sky depicts mythos and the childlike imagination of Pazu and Sheeta.

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Music by Blue Dot Sessions
- Levander Crest

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Exploring how WandaVision uses the nostalgia of TV to depict the history  of the American tv landscape from the 50s to present day.

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- Slow Line Stomp
- Plate Grayscale
- Our Only Uplift

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- https://collider.com/wandavision-tv-tropes-sitcom-references-explained/
- https://ew.com/tv/wandavision-easter-eggs-references/
- https://stephens.hosting.nyu.edu/History%20of%20Television%20page.html

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Exploring how Renoir views flesh and the role of the artist as a worker in the 2012 film Renoir by Gilles Bourdos.

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- Slimheart
- Qi
- Javan

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Exploring how Lupin uses the idea of invisibility to portray the character Assane Diop: The Gentleman Burglar.

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- The Onyx
- Watercool Quiet
- Babble Babble Brook

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Exploring what the American Dream means for Otis "Cookie" Figowitz and King-Lu in Kelly Riechardt's film First Cow.

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Music by Blue Dot Sessions
- Lumber Down
- Lochley Fells
- Feathersoft

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