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      Annotations from the Edge of an Abyss: Rogério Sganzerla’s Anthropophagic Film Collages

      Steffanie Ling
      April 2004
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      Anthony McKibbin
      August 2022
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      Will Hair
      July 2022
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      Selen Ozturk
      July 2022
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      Matthew Michaud & Justin Richardson
      July 2022
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      Michael James Beck
      July 2022
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      Thomas Austin
      July 2022
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      Steffanie Ling
      October 2019
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      Savina Petkova
      May 2022
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      Silvia Spitta & Gerd Gemünden
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      Madeleine Collier
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      Steffanie Ling
      October 2005
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      Sanya Osha
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      Daniel Fairfax
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      Roger Macy
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      Jonathan Mackris
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      Steffanie Ling
      September 2015
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      Emmanuel Bonin
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      Steven Shaviro
      July 2021
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      August 2008
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      Wheeler Winston Dixon
      May 2022
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      Tiia Kelly
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      Danica van de Velde
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      Boyd van Hoeij
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      David Melville
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Author Steffanie Ling

Steffanie Ling

Steffanie Ling is a cultural worker and guest living on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. She is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. Her books are NASCAR (Blank Cheque, 2016) and CUTS OF THIN MEAT (Spare Room, 2015).

To Be Crossed and Shattered: Solidarity as Disruption at the 67th International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

Steffanie Ling
July 2021
Festival Reports
In last year’s festival report of Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen I lamented a number of programs that were postponed, including the theme program, Solidarity as Disruption. This year, a selection of tha...

Thresholds of Work and Non-Work in Tulapop Saenjaroen’s People on Sunday

Steffanie Ling
October 2020
Feature Articles
Last January, I was seeking a joyful film at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. When I asked around, one recommended a film about a woman who attempts to flee an asylum. Others asked if I meant a comedy...

More Like Collage Than Contest: The 67th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen Online

Steffanie Ling
July 2020
Festival Reports
The 66th Edition of the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen went online too, and we all know why. A moment to note and speculate on some personally anticipated and logistically reasonable absences. re-sel...

Echoes of Exclamation: The 65th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

Steffanie Ling
July 2019
Festival Reports
The Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen is like a restaurant that everyone keeps going to even though the quality of the food is consistently unpredictable. The festival has fashioned itself as an idiosyncra...

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