Labour of Remembering: Who Pays When the State Won’t
The mechanic identifies the familiar squeaking noise which he has encountered multiple times. Prosthetic leg, specific gait, voice on the…
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Currency to Escape
There's a moment early in Kiss of the Spider Woman where Molina adjusts a strand of beads hanging from his…
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The Revolution Has a Budget Problem
Somewhere around the third bank heist in Paul Thomas Anderson's sprawling One Battle After Another, I found myself wondering who…
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Wax Cylinders and the Things We Extract
The History of Sound shows David and Lionel recording music in their neighbor's home kitchen while their recording equipment transforms…
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The Economy of Stillness
The train passenger from last week spoke words which still resonate in my thoughts. She used her phone to whisper…
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Resentment in a Two-Thousand-Person Town
A data centre costs roughly half a billion dollars to build. The proposal includes water consumption and electrical power usage…
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The Stage Manager’s Invisible Ledger
There's a moment in every workplace, maybe you've felt it, when gratitude curdles into something else entirely. Someone thanks you…
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The Economics of Skin: Who Gets to Be Comfortable?
There's a moment early in Sauna where Johan, our golden retriever of a protagonist, is cleaning semen off the tiles…
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Everlasting Price of Patronage
Ten million dollars. That's reportedly what Brady Corbet spent making The Brutalist, which sounds like a lot until you consider…
