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Night is an element of love; like fog.
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Night is an element of love; like fog.

To go, be going, straight ahead, the world being round, to be coming back, to where, to what, to be a bouncing ball, where, on what, to be defeated by gravity.

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Kiss kiss, click click
anne-lise franjou anne-lise franjou

Kiss kiss, click click

Their names weren’t recorded nor was their kiss given a title. No one called it art.

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Go back and get it
anne-lise franjou anne-lise franjou

Go back and get it

An art form, an elegance dialect, a beautiful fuck-you to postcolonial wreckage.

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Against Silence
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Against Silence

Frankétienne and the total language of the Spirale

photography credit © Corentin Fohlen / Divergence for UNESCO

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Cinema’s first kiss?
anne-lise franjou anne-lise franjou

Cinema’s first kiss?

A kiss might seem somewhat ordinary now, but back in 1896, it was daring enough to make history.

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