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The Insider’s guide to travelling without moving: Power, empathy and threads that connect at the Göteborg Film Festival
5 Feb 2021
A scene from Swedish provocateur Anna Odell’s film, Undersökningen (The Examination). (Courtesy of Göteborg Film Festival)
I am naked from the waist down, my weight balanced at the top of my tailbone and my feet up in the air with legs splayed out by plastic stirrups.
I am exposed, vulnerable and only vaguely preoccupied with the paranoia that if the screen in front of me possessed spyware, it would be able to conduct a reasonable mapping out of my sphincter for Google.
The Pop Culture That Helped Us Through the Year
From murder mysteries to fingerpicked tunes, these cultural nuggets helped make 2020 just a little more bearable.
By
Portland Monthly Staff
12/24/2020 at 10:50am
John Prine passed away this year due to complications from COVID-19.Â
Portland Monthly senior editor at-large Fiona McCann found solace in his songbook.
2020 was rough. Before we search for silver linings, let s just knock that one out: basic functioning was a feat for much of this year, and it s a huge win that things are looking (slightly) brighter at the moment.Â
There
were silver linings, though. Free time became all but meaningless, and many of us tunneled into TV epics and classic films and our ever-growing book piles, reading and watching and listening our way through surreal world development after surreal world development. The arts have always offered flotation and encouraged reflection, and this year they pulled double duty. As the holidays roll
Perhaps the easiest way of making a town’s acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.
That’s how Albert Camus, the French philosopher and author, introduces the port town of Oran early on in his novel
The Plague. I found myself reading the novel and discussing it with students this fall at Wheaton College. In fact, it’s the college’s Core Book for the year, which means that the whole campus is reading, reflecting upon, and discussing it as an act of communal learning during this season of Advent and throughout the year.
In Albert Camus sÂ
The Plague, about a plague outbreak in North Africa, physician Bernard Rieux says: There s no question of heroism in all this. It s a matter of common decency. That s an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague isâcommon decency. Â
Earlier this year, the book saw an influx of sales in Europe. And this winter, Courtney Campbell, a professor in the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, is teaching a class called Pandemics, Plagues, and Philosophies: Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides? Among other things, the class looks at Camus s 1947 novel to explore meaning and morals during a pandemic.Â