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Past and current curatorial thought lines put here, this page will grow and shift as my interests do :)

THE NON HUMAN CHARACTER IN CULTURAL WORKS

I have been thinking about different forms of media in which there are non human prominent characters, from shopping centres to trees-how do we expand that in which we use to tell stories?

Places:

Belfast
-I Am Belfast

Birmingham
-Peaky Blinders (TV/film)

Derry
-Derry Girls (TV)

Los Angeles
-Boogie Nights (film)
-Los Angeles Plays Itself (film)
-Liquorice Pizza (film)

New York
-full list of films on Letterboxd (adding as I watch)
-Gossip Girl (TV)
-Girls (TV)
-How to with John Wilson (TV)
-My New York Year (Film, not on Letterboxd)
-Sex and The City (TV)
-The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (TV)

Disney World
-The Florida Project (film)

Retail
-Do The Right Thing (film)
-Empire Records (film)
-High Fidelity (film)
-Pretty in Pink (film)
-Retail Therapy (book)
-The Watermelon Woman (film)
-Walking and Talking (film)

Archives/Libraries
-Party Girl (film)
-Terms and Conditions (film)

Homes
-The Sound of Falling (film)

Hotels
-Home Alone 2 (film)
-Lost in Translation (film)
-Somewhere (film)
-The Shining (film)

Objects:

Balloons
-The Black Balloon (film)
-The Red Balloon (film)

Clothing
-Easy A (film)
-Confessions of a Shopaholic (film)
-The Red Shoes (film)
-Serendipity (film)

Weapons
-Oppenheimer (film)

Food
-Julie & Julia (film)
-The President’s Cake (film)

Nature/Creatures:

Crow
-Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (book/film)

Hawk
-Hamnet (film)

Non Animal
-Frankenstein (film/book)
-Where the Wild Things Are (film/book)
-Project Hail Mary (film)

Space
-Asteroid City (film)
-Interstellar (film)
-Mickey 17 (film)
-The Martian (film)

Trees/Landscape
-Lanny (book)
-The Outrun (book/film)

Culture:

Cinema
-Brian (book)
-Nouvelle Vague (film)

Music
-Shy (book)
-The History of Sound (film)
-The Testament of Ann Lee (film)

Emotions:

Lust/Desire
-Les Liaisons Dangereuses (play)

Misc:

Dreams/Memories
-Distant Voices, Still Lives (film)
-Inception (film)

Routines
-Paterson (film)

Anthologies of misc topics:
-Strangers: Essays on the Human and Non-Human (book)

IT TAKES TIME TO BUILD CASTLES REFERENCE LIBRARY

As part of my debut poetry collection released by Worms Publishing in April 2025, I compiled a list of all of the different media I had intaken as a part of the full process. I wanted it published in the book as a continuation of my understanding of collage as a life mantra, a way to acknowledge that which I am formed by. The list is shown here as a documentation of the breadth of my research.