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Is God Is by Aleshea Harris (2017)

Kara Young as Racine IS GOD IS (2026) dir. Aleshea Harris

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Alejandra Pizarnik, Diarios.

BACKROOMS (2026)

clarice lispector, the hour of the star

"I was really obsessed with this Romeo and Juliet ending, actually. We shot both; we shot this ending that you see in the movie, and we shot the ending where she ends it all. We had shot a ton of different versions of the official ending, the one that's in the script, the one that I was excited about, and I was like, Okay, we'll do one ending where Nikki survives, but we'll just do one take of it, and then we'll move on. You see her coming to this realization that she's alive again, and she's looking around the room, and she looks so disturbed, and I just remember my dad and multiple people around me being like, 'Dude, I think it's way more disturbing if she just survives this thing.' I was like, 'Ah, you're right.' And so we switched it." – Curry Barker

OBSESSION + Nikki in shadow

Jean Cocteau, picture from Le sang d'un poète, 1930

Obsession 2026, dir. Curry Barker

this is a moment in the original script that I wish they'd kept in the final version of obsession. the absolute disgusting way that real nikki appearing just becomes routine for bear and he completely ignores her in order to keep her. it's so horrifying the way her torment turns into something he hardly acknowledges

OBSESSION (2026) dir. Curry Barker

la chimera (2023) dir. alice rohrwacher

DESERT HEARTS 1985, dir. Donna Deitch

Hélène Cixous, from Stigmata: Escaping Texts

DESERT HEARTS 1985, dir. Donna Deitch