Lily looks inside, then leaps. A dive into the consciousness of an industrial database. The film reconstructs the fictional memories of an industrial computer plant. Blending the present with the past, an artificial consciousness grapples with three ways of looking at reality. Photographs, archives, and fiction, hybridized with rotoscoping and digital reconstructions using photogrammetry, help Lily, the industrial software, increasingly approach human perception.
This Transgender Day of Remembrance, let us take a look at six films about transgender children grappling with their identity in a heteronormative world that despises their kind and tries its best to invalidate their feelings.
Two Distant Strangers (2020) centers around Carter James (Joey Bada$$) as he tries to get back home to his pitbull, Jeter, after spending a night at the apartment of his date Perri (Zaria Simone). What gets in the way of Carter reuniting with his dog is that every time he tries to leave Perri’s apartment, he is killed by police and wakes up back in her bed in a never-ending cycle. It addresses the issue of police brutality which rightly has been in the public eye more and more with the unjust deaths caused at the hands of law enforcement.
If you're missing the freedom of travel, explore the world via these international films that put their gorgeous settings in the spotlight.
This powerful story shines with poetic animation, an exploration of deeper truths, and the protagonist's complex search for identity.
Did you know that Disney heroes and villains have kids? Check out the Descendants series.
Shudder’s Host (not a particularly original title, I must say) attempts to bring the spooks to “the quarantine generation” by presenting us with a scary Zoom call during lockdown.
