Stephen Abel Sinding, To Mennesker (Two Lovers)

“It is far too easy—as the reluctant inhabitant of one of the most beautiful, expensive, and problematic cities in the world, as the naturalized citizen of a country that tries to kick dirt over its bloody history, as a hedonist seduced by oysters and cashmere sweaters—to see only the castle on the hill and not the thickets of bone we trod through to arrive at it. I am all too capable of moving with blinkers on. The hyper-compressed grief of living in this age means, paradoxically, that it is hard to give grief its due—not five seconds in a news reel but whole pages and chapters and volumes of grief.”

— C Pam Zhang, from “When Your Inheritance is to Look Away”

how it feels knowing that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall

““It’s so difficult to manoeuvre,” he says, exhaling deeply, visibly calibrating the level of professional diplomacy to display. “You get yourself involved in projects and you’re not necessarily going to like everything. [But] what I would say to Disney is do not bring out a black character, market them to be much more important in the franchise than they are and then have them pushed to the side. It’s not good. I’ll say it straight up.” He is talking about himself here – about the character of Finn, the former Stormtrooper who wielded a lightsaber in the first film before being somewhat nudged to the periphery. But he is also talking about other people of colour in the cast – Naomi Ackie and Kelly Marie Tran and even Oscar Isaac (“a brother from Guatemala”) – who he feels suffered the same treatment; he is acknowledging that some people will say he’s “crazy” or “making it up”, but the reordered character hierarchy of The Last Jedi was particularly hard to take. “Like, you guys knew what to do with Daisy Ridley, you knew what to do with Adam Driver,” he says. “You knew what to do with these other people, but when it came to Kelly Marie Tran, when it came to John Boyega, you know fuck all. So what do you want me to say? What they want you to say is, ‘I enjoyed being a part of it. It was a great experience…’ Nah, nah, nah. I’ll take that deal when it’s a great experience. They gave all the nuance to Adam Driver, all the nuance to Daisy Ridley. Let’s be honest. Daisy knows this. Adam knows this. Everybody knows. I’m not exposing anything.“”

— John Boyega: ‘I’m the only cast member whose experience of Star Wars was based on their race’ by Jimi Famurewa, GQ September 2020.

“I would like to make a film to tell children “it’s good to be alive”.”

— Hayao Miyazaki

Hello everyone, regarding the white-washing and cultural appropriation prevalent in Dune (2020) dir. Denis Villeneuve, FILMREEL will not be reblogging or making content pertaining to the film. We apologize to the creators that have tagged us in Dune content but we will not be reblogging it. We hope that you understand our decision and thank you for your support thus far and in the future. 

Listed here are a few informational choices that we hope will help explain our decision: 

Why Arab and Islamic Representation Matters in the New Dune 

this twitter thread 

another twitter thread

Arabic and Islamic Themes in Frank Herbert’s “Dune”

The Secret History of Dune

- filmreel’s team

alignment chart: bookmark edition. tag yourself i’m scrap paper

“there are many children in afghanistan, but little childhood.” 

please consider donating/sharing this list of trusted organizations to help those in need. please add to the list as well.

women for afghan women 

afghan aid

sanitary products for displaced afghan women

birds hover the trampled field / richard siken

what is your cishet male trait mine is being a car fan