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another haunting and beautiful film by Jem cohen "The result of over five years of Super-8 and 16mm filming on New York City streets, Lost Book Found melds documentary and narrative into a complex meditation on city life. The piece revolves around a mysterious notebook filled with obsessive listings of places, objects, and incidents. These listings serve as the key to a hidden city: a city of unconsidered geographies and layered artifacts—the relics of low-level capitalism and the debris of countless forgotten narratives. The project stems from the filmmaker's first job in New York—working as a pushcart vendor on Canal Street. As usual, Cohen shot in hundreds of locations using unobtrusive equipment and generally without any crew. Influenced by the work of Walter Benjamin, Cohen created "an archive of undirected shots and sounds, then set out to explore the boundary" between genres. During the process, Cohen said, "I found connections between the street vendor, Benjamin's 'flaneur', and my own work as an observer and collector of ephemeral street life.""

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Sony's smartphone ancestor of 1982 featuring: -A mini CRT television screen -Precision analog tuning -Top-Mounted cassette player/recorder -AM/FM reception -Built-in speaker -Earphone/Mic external ports

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my mutuals can do that too but you dont see any snapple facts about them

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im so ride or die for my filofax 🔪

sick post i just found online. sorry i couldnt find the source

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Jem Cohen (16mm, 99 min.) 2004.

As regional character disappears and corporate culture homogenizes our surroundings, it's increasingly hard to tell where you are. In Chain, malls, theme parks, hotels and corporate centers worldwide are joined into one monolithic contemporary "superlandscape" that shapes the lives of two women caught within it. One is a corporate businesswoman set adrift by her corporation while she researches the international theme park industry. The other is a young drifter, living and working illegally on the fringes of a shopping mall. Cohen contrives to turn the entire planet into a stretch of New Jersey commercial property—a universe that feels entirely real yet has the distinct smack of J.G. Ballard otherness.

The film is structured around an amazing conceit: the locations, while appearing to be the same locality were actually shot over six years in more than ten US states and eight countries.

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«Houston Street, 1980

Photo © Brian Rose / Edward Fausty»

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house of the neighborhood coven

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from 2022 I think...

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The concept art of Erich Kettelhut for Metropolis (1927), dir. Fritz Lang

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Hollywood (1937-38) - Thomas Hart Benton

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"Angel Cat", Margaret Wozniak.

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