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Enter a house where a child sees a monster
Víctor Erice, 1973
A girl meets Frankenstein in a Spanish village and the line between film and life dissolves.
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Featured collection
A slower Sunday
A pace for the end of the week: a record, a film, a book, a photograph and a way of listening.
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Published work
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Read a city made of sentences
Italo Calvino, 1972
Marco Polo describes 55 cities to Kublai Khan. None of them are real.
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Meet a detective out of time
Robert Altman, 1973
Philip Marlowe in 1970s LA, loyal to a code no one else remembers.
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Watch a family hold its silence
Asghar Farhadi, 2011
A marriage, a fall, a lie. A film where everyone is partly right.
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Visit a museum that fits in a shelf
David Wilson
A small Los Angeles museum where every exhibit might be true or might not.
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Follow a train through someone else's city
Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2003
A young woman records train sounds in Tokyo. A quiet film about listening to a city.
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Let an album be a room
Nala Sinephro, 2021
Pedal harp and modular synths, an ambient record that breathes.
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Catch the light before it goes
Terrence Malick, 1978
Wheat fields, golden hour, a story told by a child.
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Walk a garden designed to be read
Ian Hamilton Finlay
A Scottish garden where every stone, bench and bed carries an inscription.
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Sit with a film that listens
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021
A three-hour film about grief, translation and the parts of us we can't voice.
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Remember a summer that won't return
Charlotte Wells, 2022
A holiday video becomes an elegy for a father you only knew as a child.
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Read a novel that refuses to settle
Olga Tokarczuk, 2009
An old woman, a string of murders, astrology and rage in the Polish woods.
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Hear a guitar think out loud
Mary Halvorson, 2024
Eight pieces written fast and played loose, a guitarist at her most lyrical.
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Watch the city through patient eyes
Wim Wenders, 1987
Angels, listening. A black-and-white love letter to attention itself.
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Take the slow road to the Room
Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979
A pilgrimage through mist. The case for watching slowly.
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Meet the one-film masterpiece
Charles Laughton, 1955
A single, perfect film. Southern Gothic at its most stark.
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Spend a night with the night owls
Jim Jarmusch, 2013
Two immortals, records and dusk. A film for anyone who collects.
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Notice the comedy of the built world
Jacques Tati, 1967
Glass, geometry and gags. A film that makes you look harder.
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Sit with one person and one island
Mark Jenkin, 2022
Ritual, isolation, time. A folk-horror exercise in attention.
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Read a film like a poem
Sergei Parajanov, 1969
Cinema as still life. Images to read, not follow.
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Follow a glance through a city
José Luis Guerin, 2007
Looking, and looking again. A film about almost meeting someone.
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Watch a film about wanting to forget
Michel Gondry, 2004
Memory, erasure, love. A film that changes on a second watch.
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Spend a summer on the Côte d'Azur
Durga Chew-Bose, 2024
Summer, jealousy, sea light. A debut in vivid colour.
Essays
An artist whose work deserves a closer look.
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A book you wish someone had introduced you to sooner.
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An album you return to from start to finish.
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A place you want to experience slowly.
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A film that changed what you noticed.
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Let someone else choose the next record
NTS Radio
Explore a human-curated radio show. Save the tracks that surprise you, rather than searching only for names you already know.
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A home as a creative portrait
NOWNESS In Residence
Explore the series through its original source. Notice what a space reveals about the person who inhabits it.
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Plan a journey around looking
Naoshima
Begin a collection about art, architecture and place. Verify museums, visitor information and practical details through official sources before adding them.
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Listen to the whole statement
Sampa the Great The Return
Sampa the Great's 2019 debut The Return is a dense, genre-spanning record about identity, home and self-determination. Here is what critics at Pitchfork, Clash and PopMatters made of it.
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Images, rhythm and a question about pace
Koyaanisqatsi Godfrey Reggio
A viewing prompt: consider how editing and music change the way you see familiar scenes.
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Step into a painted summer
Hiroshi Nagai
Spend a minute with one work before browsing the next. Notice its space, colour and the feeling it leaves behind.
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Watch the spaces between people
In the Mood for Love Wong Kar-wai
Pay attention to colour, framing and the moments that linger. What does the image communicate before anyone speaks?
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Read about becoming an artist
Patti Smith Just Kids
A reading suggestion for anyone interested in the lives around creative work. Let the book lead you to the artists and places it names.
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Take your reading outside
Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass
Pair a reading session with time outdoors. Make space for attention to the living world around you.
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Let a shelf make the recommendation
Independent bookshops
A collection prompt: save bookshops you want to visit and books discovered through their staff selections.
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A novel to think alongside
Ursula K. Le Guin The Dispossessed
Choose a book that leaves you with questions. Keep a note of the ideas you want to revisit after the story ends.
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Look for the life inside the room
Apartamento
Explore the publication through its original website. Notice the objects, habits and personal details that make a home feel inhabited.
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Two doors into creative discovery
Colossal and It’s Nice That
Explore an unfamiliar artist through the original publication, then follow through to the artist’s own work.
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Leave room for the groove
Khruangbin The Universe Smiles Upon You
A listening suggestion for an unhurried afternoon. Follow the guitar, then notice what the bass and drums are doing around it.
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Follow the photograph into its context
Gordon Parks
Gordon Parks used the camera as a 'weapon' against racism and poverty. The Gordon Parks Foundation preserves and extends that legacy for artists, scholars and the public.
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Start here, then follow Hosono elsewhere
Haruomi Hosono Hosono House
One record as an introduction to a musician worth exploring across albums, collaborations and changing sounds.
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Stay with the repetition
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & London Symphony Orchestra Promises
A suggestion for listening closely: notice how your experience changes when a musical idea keeps returning.
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Surfing as a doorway into cinema
A Scene at the Sea Takeshi Kitano
Approach this through the ocean, then stay for the filmmaking. A connection between two interests can open an unfamiliar world.
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Something to read and discuss
bell hooks All About Love
Save a passage in your private notes, then talk about the idea with someone. A book can become a conversation.
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Give abstraction some time
Hilma af Klint
Start with one painting. Look for repetition, shape and colour before reaching for an explanation.
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A record to settle into
Nala Sinephro Space 1.8
Put this on without planning your next task. Let its quieter details find you.
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Spend time with pattern
Esther Mahlangu
Explore the artist’s work with attribution and context. Notice how your eye moves through colour and geometry.
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Discover a place through its radio
Community radio
Pick a station and listen beyond the familiar names. What might its programmes introduce you to?
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Bring a question to the next image
John Berger Ways of Seeing
Add this to your reading shelf, then return to a photograph or painting you know. What do you notice differently?
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A small detail, held in focus
Rinko Kawauchi
Explore her photography through an official source. Then try noticing something modest in your own day with the same patience.
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Look closer at the everyday
Perfect Days Wim Wenders
A film to pair with a slower evening. Afterwards, notice one ordinary detail in your own surroundings that you usually pass by.
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Start with the person behind the dish
Food as cultural storytelling
Build a food collection around credited interviews, films and essays about cooks, traditions and places. Avoid generic restaurant rankings.
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A different starting point for your film collection
Daughters of the Dust Julie Dash
Make room for a film outside your usual rotation. Watch first, then seek out thoughtful writing about it.
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When an object changes the space around it
Isamu Noguchi
Explore a sculpture or design, then imagine how it would alter the room or landscape around it.
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What changes when listening is the point?
Japanese listening-bar culture
An editorial theme about spaces organised around music. Build a collection of properly sourced examples rather than inventing a venue guide.