A Personal Experience of Representation - The Intersection of Armenian Culture & Epilepsy
I am an Armenian who has a mild form of epilepsy. I rarely see Armenian culture and epilepsy properly portrayed in film or TV. I delve into the how and why.

In conversation with Kenneth Anger's avant-garde classic, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), After the Pleasure Dome fuses slow hypnotic performance, live visual effects and underwater footage inspired by a myth overheard while visiting a Sacred Cenote (Cenote Sagrado) at Chichén Itzá. The psychedelic imagery asks: what precious jewels threaten to drown you? Which riches must your expel to survive?
I am an Armenian who has a mild form of epilepsy. I rarely see Armenian culture and epilepsy properly portrayed in film or TV. I delve into the how and why.
A few episodes in, I realized the most prominent theme of In The Long Run wasn't culture, race or even finding independence--but the idea of belonging.
The repeated actions, the blood on the petals, the rustling under the floor…An ambient short horror film takes us into another realm.
The character of Mulan is one of Disney’s best heroines. She’s brave, kicks butt, and has a kill count. What other Disney character has killed hundreds of Huns by crushing them with an avalanche? No one.
A quiet film that does not demand your tears but earns them. It explores love that lingers, timing that fails, and the silence between what was and what could have been.