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Dance First

Dance First

The 1953 novel ‘The Unnamable’ commences with these words – ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on’ that most people including his critics would easily attribute to the Irish born poet, playwright, essayist and novelist, Samuel Beckett. dance First is simple and to the point and that is where they are most in terror of […]

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Not Not Jazz

Not Not Jazz

In “Not Not Jazz” – a documentary about jazz fusion band Medeski Martin & Wood, there is also a sequence with ‘crew lens stalking about Mike Landau’s neck’ while Chris Wood is bowing an upright bass on leaves in a desert courtyard in upstate New York tennis court. Other such scenes are also evident in

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Duchess

Duchess

As Quentin Tarantino found himself in a throne of pop culture during the 90s, many of his cloned filmmakers almost choked to death trying to get the same ideas that he had. There is a notion in the understanding, than one would in such a situation, seek peace on the surface, and within oneself-it is

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane

Almost everybody in the Western Hemisphere is aware of the crimes of the Roman Catholic Church as it keenly accepts blame for its wrongdoings. Paralleling though most of the historical narratives that exist today, whiteness is also more often the great eraser of facts, and when it comes to crimes against victims of color, they

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