Identity
12 chains · 10 films
Chains
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Growing Up Is No Picnic
8 films
unsentimental · raw · awkward · naturalistic
From the Yorkshire coalfields to the banlieues of Paris, these films capture adolescence as it truly is: messy, unglamorous, and achingly real.
Fractured Fables
8 films
melancholy · mythic · tender
From Grimm to the modern screen, a journey through films that twist the familiar into the unsettling, the erotic, and the profoundly human.
The Show Must Go On
8 films
defiant · glittering · tender · rebellious
From Freddie Mercury's operatic excess to the raw defiance of punk, this chain traces how cinema captures the transformative power of self-expression.
Girlhood Reclaimed
8 films
rebellious · tender · fierce · wry
From institutionalised rebellion to the raucous freedom of the last day of school, a chain of films that lets young women be messy, angry, and gloriously themselves.
The Body's Unmaking
8 films
visceral · unsettling · transformative
From Cronenberg's flesh to Claire Denis's restless bodies, these eight films chart a cinema of transformation that questions where the self ends and the body begins.
The Art of the Unresolved
8 films
unsettling · atmospheric · melancholic
From the sun-bleached streets of Los Angeles to the fog-bound docks of Hamburg, these eight films turn the detective story inside out, leaving questions hanging like smoke. A global tradition of anti-mysteries that prize mood over solution.
Small Craft Warnings
8 films
introspective · salt-crusted · harrowing
From the open sea to a leaky skiff, these eight films use small boats as vessels for self-discovery, each one a different kind of voyage.
The Art of the Fall
8 films
provocative · uncomfortable · redemptive
From viral infamy to quiet vindication: a chain of films about bold artists whose audacity is mistaken for failure, tracing the same arc that turned Raygun from a punchline into a conversation.
Ghosts in the Machine
8 films
elegiac · uncanny · grief-stricken
From a stuntman's final role to a star's digital encore, these eight films trace cinema's long affair with performing from beyond the grave.
The Long Way Home, and Who Pays For It
8 films
tender · unflinching · nocturnal · defiant
A chain about sex work, disability and survival that keeps its camera on the worker's face rather than the client's wallet. It begins with a lift shared between strangers and ends somewhere far less comfortable.
A Feast for the Wandering Eye
8 films
tender · melancholy · sun-drenched
From Tokyo ramen bars to Mumbai tiffin carriers, eight films that use food to map the distances between people and the places they call home.
Love in the Time of Espionage
7 films
paranoid · melancholic · morally complex
From Berlin to Buenos Aires, a journey through films where romance and espionage entwine, revealing the human cost of secrets.
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