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(2/2) “...When my father left, it was then always nice to watch Home Alone again, knowing that he had arrived safely back in New York. In general my father would be gone for about a year or sometimes a year and a half. My mom and I first visited him in 2001 right before September 11th. Which was crazy because I stood in the Twin Towers in the summer of that year. My mom was really worried when we saw the attack on TV, because he worked close nearby. Luckily my father was unharmed. Eventually we moved to the US in 2004 and that’s when our family was finally together again. To me this film represents that even though our family was apart during this time. We’re still together in some form or way. I was a little bit ‘home alone’, because one person was sometimes missing.” – Dan Ungureanu. ————————————————— Photo and story by Feargal Agard ———————————————— I met some cool people at @uvaradio check them out. ———————————————— #hofa #humansoffilmamsterdam #amsterdam #macaulayculkin #homealone #straatfotografie #Joepesci #Humans #chriscolumbus #Johnhughes #netherlands #streetphotography #fotografie #photography #cinema #humansofinstagram #humansofny #instacinema #instagood #humansofamsterdam #newyork #fotografie #homealone2 #photooftheday #nederland #tvseries #filmwave #lostinnewyork (at Amsterdam, Netherlands) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuPohuLFiJY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=gbib0u2xmmc4

Repost @tightrope.to.the.sun Guys! I got a digital ARC from @mcfrank_author of #loseme and the cover is georgous! I need to get my hands on a physical copy of this book because taking outdoor pictures of my computer is a STRUGGLE! Haha😂 Like, how do you do it without relflections? . I am about 70 pages in and so excited to see where it goes! . . . #bookstagram #books #reading #bookaddict #bookworm #bookstagramfeature #booklr #humansofinstagram #serialbibliophile #libraryofinstagram #bookstagrammer #bookaholic #instabook #booknerd #booklover #readersgonnaread #bookishlove #booknerdigans #booklove #mcfrank #currentlyreading #losememcfrank

“What a beautiful film. I really thought The Wolves of the East | Higashi no Ohkami (2018) was a beautiful film. The story of the film made me think of Akira Kurosawa’s film Dersu Uzala (1975) which is also about a hunter but then in Siberia. The Wolves of the East film takes place in Nara, Japan where a hunters organization has taken over the role of the wolves that went extinct in the region about 100 years ago to keep the deer population under control. The main character believes that the wolves might have survived, but he has no proof. I felt that I could really empathize with the main character, the old hunter. Not that I have ever hunted in my life. I loved seeing the film in its setting in Japan because I love Japan and I visited that country often. That’s why I loved experiencing this film’s narrative because it makes me think of my visits to that beautiful country and I have even been to Nara. The environment is super gorgeous. Full of mountains and rich in forests. Mount Yoshino is famous for its cherry blossoms and the cherries that come from it. I never knew about the wolves situation in that region though. I do know about the deer. They’ve got so many of them over there. You even see people dressed up as deer mascots. It’s very typical in the region to see that because they indeed shoot the deer to keep the population under control. Besides that, they have a lot of beautiful temples. I saw a lot of this back in the film so it was definitely done in a realistic way.” ________________________________ Photo and story by Feargal Agard ________________________________ #HoFA #HumansofFilmAmsterdam #Amsterdam #streetphotography #humansofinstagram #instadaily #instarealness #photooftheday #movies #photography #humanstories #instafilm #instawesome #instagood #kurosawa #asiancinema #instamood #nederland #worldcinema #humansofjoy #instamovies #instaphoto #beautiful #thewolvesoftheeast #nara #yoshino #japan #mountyoshino #movies @rialto @cinemasia @debalie @worldcinemaamsterdam @oneworldnl @degroeneamsterdammer (at Amsterdam, Netherlands)

(1/2) "I thought 3 Faces | Se rokh (2018) was a good film. I do have to admit that I thought it was a documentary film because it seemed conveyed to me in that way by someone else, but it is a beautiful fiction film. The movie is about an actress (Behnaz Jafari) who is shocked by a video of a young girl (Marziyeh Rezaei) who says that she also wants to become an actress, but her family prevents her. So she pleads for help. That is why the actress leaves the film set and together with a filmmaker (Jafar Panahi) she searches for the girl. They both want to know if her plea is real or not because the film is recorded with a smartphone." "What the film did with me is raise a lot of questions. For example, what is a film exactly? When is it real or not? Is her cry for help real or is it staged? And is the entire village that the girl lives in staging it? Or is the entire movie staged? Are we watching a documentation or is it just really a film? To me, the film tried to search the boundaries and borders of reporting what's real and when is it a staged scene?" ________________________________ Photo and story by Feargal Agard ________________________________ #HoFA #HumansofFilmAmsterdam #Amsterdam #streetphotography #humansofinstagram #instadaily #instarealness #film #photooftheday #movies #photography #humanstories #instafilm #instawesome #instagood #instamood #humansofjoy #instamovies #instaphoto #beautiful #3faces #movies #film #iran @rialto @cinemasia @debalie @worldcinemaamsterdam (at Amsterdam, Netherlands)

"The TV series The End of the F***ing World (2017) made a huge impression on me. The series is about James and Alyssa. He believes that he is a psychopath and she is an angry new girl at school. They connect and begin to date each other in the weirdest way and decide to go on a road trip to search for her real father. There are eight episodes of about 25 minutes each. It’s cinematographically bizarre, sick and beautiful and the music is fantastic. It has become my favorite series because of the way it’s filmed the angles, the colors tones, and the theme. All of this causes for particular emotions and also a lot of blood, which I’d rather not prefer to see." - Girl with Glasses. • “That is really a good summary of the series." - Girl without Glasses. • “I think I like watching films where people are kind of broken. People who had a bad experience growing up and who aren’t capable to function well within society. There’s often good acting and that is definitely the case in this TV series. I think everybody knows a person who has gone through something similar like that. I also had some difficulties growing up, but it was never as bad as in this series." - Girl with Glasses. ________________________________ Photo and story by Feargal Agard ________________________________ #HoFA #HumansofFilmAmsterdam #Amsterdam #tvseries #netflix #streetphotography #Instatvseries #humansofinstagram #instadaily #instarealness #film #photooftheday #theendofthefuckingworld #jessicabarden #photography #humanstories #humans #instafilm #instawesome #instagood #instamood #humansofjoy #followme #slickerthanyouraverage #british #humansofny #amazingstories #psychopath #alexlawther (at Amsterdam, Netherlands)

"Wakanda for Life!" "It's a line that inspired me from Ryan Coogler's film Black Panther (2018). Chadwick Boseman plays a character named T'Challa, the King of Wakanda, which is an isolated, technologically advanced African nation. Eventually, he has to save the world. This film showed me how I have actually always seen and experienced Africa. Most importantly it displayed how I think that it could be like for all Africans, Afro-Caribbeans, Afro-Americans and for the entire African diaspora. It's very beautiful to see the responses that all these people have because of this film. It makes everyone so proud. Then again, Africa is a part that does stand far away from us. For example, I am of African descent, but what is that precisely? Next, to that, it can be translated in a very beautiful way as it notifies us but also signifies what has been missing all along for a long time. I think that for a lot of people it is something that they are often confronted with especially if you are a member of the African diaspora living in a western country. You don't actually know what being of African descent really is. You don't know where in Africa you are from. Most haven't even been to the continent of Africa. All that we have now is the beautiful depiction of a maybe even utopic display of how Africa could be. The visual part is what has been missing all along for a lot of people. Including me. and it is translated in the best way with this film. That is why the line, 'Wakanda for life!' is inspiring to me. It shows me my roots and a place to call home." __________________________________ Photo and story by Feargal Agard ___________________________________ #HoFA #HumansofFilmAmsterdam #Amsterdam #BlackPanther #movies #streetphotography #Netherlands #humansofinstagram #Tchalla #RyanCoogler #film #photooftheday #Africa #Wakandaforlife #photography #humanstories #humans #instafilm #instawesome #instagood #instamood #humansofjoy #followme #slickerthanyouraverage #Wakanda #humansofny #Chadwickboseman #Africandiaspora (at Amsterdam, Netherlands)

"I saw The Seventh Sign (1988) when I was a lot younger. I think Demi Moore played the role of the main character. It's funny because when I watched it again a year ago I thought to myself what an uninteresting film with bad special effects, but back then it influenced me. Because I was a young unaware kid who was raised in a very religious family and the story which was about a pregnant woman who is haunted by dreams, a mysterious person who comes to live with her and strange events that could lead to the end of humanity. All of this told me that there is more out there. This biblical, but also Judean type of story made me realize that not everyone has the same religion and not everyone believes in a god. It made me research things like the laws of nature, free-thinking, but even conspiracy theories. It was basically a turning point in my life and my own consciousness. Not everyone has always supported me. I come from a religious family and they probably thought that I would snap out of it after a while. But ever since I have been living on my own I have been able to be closer to myself and I undertake things based on what I feel. My intuition is my religion. I do not solely live as an individual. I totally understand that all humans need to stay in touch with each other and that we need each other, but I definitely listen to my own feelings. I do not allow them to be guided by a collective that tries to tell me that they do things a certain way and therefore I should follow their ways." __________________________________ Photo and story by Feargal Agard ___________________________________ #HoFA #HumansofFilmAmsterdam #Amsterdam #Theseventhsign #movies #streetphotography #Netherlands #humansofinstagram #seventhsign #demimoore #film #photooftheday #religion #theguff #photography #humanstories #humans #instafilm #instawesome #instagood #instamood #humansofjoy #followme #slickerthanyouraverage #judean #humansofny #amazingstories #consciousness (at Amsterdam, Netherlands)

“When I was growing up, there were two films that left a life-long impression with me. I forgot the name of one, but the first was about a family of foxes with seven cubs. The foxes were constantly looking for food, but as the winter became harsher the cubs would die one by one. The fact that the family fell apart because of this, moved me so much. I come from a family of seven kids, but I was adopted by a Duitch family when I was just one year old. Being adopted can be a struggle sometimes. But it’s also a long life gold mine for making art. My Korean parents aren’t alive anymore and one brother and a sister passed at a very young age. Come to think of it, it is actually crazy how many parallels there are with the family of foxes and mine. Movies about death and loss always leave the biggest impression with me. Even more when children are involved with it. There is also a scene in Nobody’s boy Rémi (1977) where Rémi’s foster father falls in the snow, freezing to his death which I never forgot. I noticed that my stories are always about loss, but also about acceptance of the past.” __________________________________ Photo and story by Feargal Agard ___________________________________ #HoFA #HumansofFilmAmsterdam #Amsterdam #CinemAsia #foxes #streetphotography #Netherlands #cubs #humansofinstagram #fun #nobodysboyremi #film #photooftheday #fox #photography #humanstories #humans #instafilm #instawesome #instagood #instamood #humansofjoy #followme #slickerthanyouraverage #korean #documentary #sevenfoxes #Cinemasiafilmfestival #remi #humansofny (at Hermitage Amsterdam)