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  Missing 2021

  Watched 30 Jun 2021 6

  Filmed this in 2019 forever ago. Besides the cultural context, it's really just about wondering whatever happened to that particular someone now in a different place and time.
  youaretheprototype.art/missing/

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  Simorgh 2015

  Watched 23 Jan 2023

  One of Noora Niasari's early shorts made in film school at VCA:
  youtu.be/n6QamnlYOIk

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  Nostos: The Return 1989

  ★★★★ Watched 01 Jan 2023 1

  watching in 480p in 2023.

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  The Plastic House 2019

  Watched 04 Apr 2020 16

  It's very surreal to have my film as an official selection of Visions du Réel film festival in this moment in time. I made this film in isolation, never thinking of its afterlife. In light of the current pandemic, I hope it raises some timely questions - How do you continue to live and work in isolation? What memories do you keep of loved ones when they're not around? As everything has changed so much, it already feels like a nostalgic film to me.

  List of Influences:
  letterboxd.com/aota/list/the-plastic-house-influences/

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  Passing Summer 2001

  ★★★½ Watched 06 Apr 2018

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  About two thirds into the film, a professor tells Valerie her writing is better when there's no style. Readers can understand the subject. And if there is too much style it comes down to a matter of taste.

  There are several self-referential points in this film. When the kid in the movie theatre tells his dad not to fall asleep. Schanelec is aware of how the film will make her audience feel. Her style can work for or against her,…