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📁RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Shiori Ito (director), Black Box Diaries, 2024. 102 min. This review may contain spoilers. In Bangkok, I went with a friend to see Black Box Diaries, directed by Shiori…
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![Protected: [REVIEW] “All in All, We’re Just Another Brick in the Wall—Saikat Majumdar’s 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐴𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑢𝑟: 𝑆𝑒𝑙𝑓-𝑀𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑦” by Kabir Deb](https://chajournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/the-amateur.png?w=600)
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Chris Song’s note: Roses in the Floating World 浮世薔薇 is the debut novel of Luwei Rose Luqiu 閭丘露薇, bearing an autobiographical touch as it recounts the lives of three generations of women—Miss Zhao, Ruolin, and Xiaoyu. The narrative follows these…
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📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on All We Imagine as Light. Payal Kapadia (director), All We Imagine as Light, 2024. 118 min. Payal Kapadia’s debut feature All We Imagine as Light is…
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“… In this way, too, poems are en route; they are headed toward. Toward what? Toward something open, inhabitable, an approachable you, perhaps, an approachable reality.” —Paul Celan, tr. Rosemarie Waldrop. Cha is accepting submissions for a new poetry-focused section…
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We will be pausing the publication of new pieces on our websites until Monday 25 November 2024. During this period, all content on our three platforms (asiancha | chajournal | hkprotesting) will remain fully accessible for your perusal. While new…
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茶 FIRST IMPRESSIONS 茶 REVIEW OF BOOKS & FILMS [ESSAY] “On Memory” by Jonathan Chan Permutations (detail), 1976. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (South Korean, 1951–1982). Black and white, 16 mm film on video, silent; 10 min. Collection of the University…
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© Mavis Cheung MONG KOK 忙/忘 mong4 kok—we forgot why we are in such a mongstate that we are okayeveryday we dash for thecash. was it our 夢 mung6? you don’t even have a kokthis is not mung kok,mong kok,…
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TIFF 2024 ▞ Introduction▞ 8. Band of Outsiders: On Neo Sora’s Happyend▞ 7. The Soul of an Artist: On Hong Sang-soo’s By The Stream▞ 6. The Two Maidens: On Trương Minh Quý’s Viet and Nam▞ 5. The Master and Her…
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