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Opinion | ‘Walkabout’ is an unexpectedly fitting film for the holiday season
Although Director Nicolas Roeg’s “Walkabout” may lack the festive imagery of more traditional holiday films, its bittersweet narrative of missed connections speaks directly to the empathy that lies at the heart of this season.
Opinion | Opening our minds at the movies
“A Beginner’s Mind” is the product of collaboration between singer-songwriters Sufjan Stevens and Angelo di Augustine
Opinion | Notes on auteur theory in 2021
The critics of French film journal “Cahiers du Cinéma” formulated “la politique des auteurs” — a mode of film criticism through which films are assessed and analyzed as the product of a singular creative voice, or auteur.
Opinion | Temporality of Instagram
If the app’s design is any indication, Instagram appears to have no interest in making memories.
Opinion | Non-fungible tokens for social change
Seven years ago, New York artist Kevin McCoy unwittingly laid the groundwork for what would become one of the most widespread and controversial art trends in recent memory: the NFT.
Opinion | Meditations on snorkeling
Beneath the waves of the Pacific Ocean, there exists a primordial realm so foreign and complex that one must see it to believe it.
Opinion | Passing the time
Regardless of how resolute I feel in my refusal to allow another semester to drift away, I have grown accustomed to monotony. As the novelty of returning to campus fades into normalcy, I can feel its grip tightening once again. Let’s hope this year is different.
Opinion | Estorerics under capitalism
The media landscape is heavily oversaturated as a result of late-stage capitalism, to the point where society is almost constantly exposed to all kinds of content.
Opinion | Facing our harsh reality
The threat of climate change has been hanging over humanity’s head like the proverbial sword of Damocles for several decades, and we are already beginning to face the effects.
Opinion | Down with Virgil Abloh
Say what you will about the quality of his work, but modernist artist Marcel Duchamp was, without a doubt, revolutionary. He rocked the art world of the 1910s with his ‘readymade’ sculptures, which consisted of old pieces of junk Duchamp happened to find on the street that he would then dub a ‘sculpture.’
Opinion | Reconsidering the meaning of graffiti
In 1984, the Olympic Arts Committee commissioned a series of murals to be painted on the walls in between the Alameda Street and Grand Avenue exits of the Los Angeles 101 Freeway in order to showcase the rich culture of the city for the upcoming Summer Olympic Games being held in the city. There were no plans made to maintain them; just like everything else erected for the games, they no longer served a purpose after the Olympics were over.
Opinion | The failures of the 24-hour news cycle
Networks that partake in the 24-hour news cycle need to reassess themselves before their human side is lost.
Opinion | “Rambo” and the aging movie star
The movie star is immortal; they are never really gone, always resurrected time and time again with every appearance on the silver screen.