'Hatching' - Social Media as the Modern Cardboard World
Hanna Bergholm's 'Hatching' shows us that the modern version of the cardboard world trope is social media.

The plot of the film would be based on the story of the 12 signs of the zodiac undergoing a metamorphosis, painted by the outstanding Lithuanian painter and composer of the modernist era, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis.
Hanna Bergholm's 'Hatching' shows us that the modern version of the cardboard world trope is social media.
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