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Before I started translating Parasite, I received a very long email from Bong Joon Ho, where he mentioned all the issues that he anticipated we would have to deal with in the subtitles. IN A RUNNING GAG IN BONG JOON HO’S OKJA, a Korean-American membe
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FOR THE POLISH DESIGNER BRONISŁAW ZELEK, words were always as important as images. In his haunting 1967 poster for Henning Carlsen’s Hunger, the title squats in the cerebrum of a ravaged anatomical skull, the rounds of its letters looking like mispla
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Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
WHAT IF WE LEFT THEIR CONTENTS ASIDE and examined their physical qualities (paper, ink, weight, etc.)?” Camilo Restrepo says in his 2015 documentary short, Impression of a War, as the camera zooms into the warped, oversaturated pages of discarded Col

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