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January 27, 2019January 27, 2019

Goodbye, Baikonur

A drawing made by a first-grade student is shown on January 31, 1986. The student's class at the Our Lady of Lourdes School in Melbourne, Florida, was asked to draw what they thought happened to the space shuttle Challenger and the people aboard. Thom Baur/AP

And then all was over. The schoolteacher –the symbol of progress and hope for tomorrow– and her six companions, were dead. No more fantasies, no more Cape Canaveral, no more Baikonur…

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August 19, 2018September 3, 2018

The Mirror / Зеркало

The Mirror (2016) Tribute to Andrei Tarkovsky and Yuri Norstein

“Your backyard, and the dining room, and the voice of your elders chatting at the light of a dim candle: they’re gone now.”

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August 12, 2018September 3, 2018

The Best Mark

From left to right: John Cambra, Camila Ramirez, Dashel Hernandez. February 2014. Camaguey, Cuba

“Art is a good mark, but it is not the best. Art makes no sense if we are unable to transmit what we know to others.”

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August 12, 2018April 25, 2019

Vignettes

The Little Grey Wolf Will Come (2018)

Is childhood memory a reliable source? Up to what extent can we separate our own memories from the social imaginary from which they derive? Where are the boundaries between reality and memory?

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