States of the Body Produced by Love
Nisha Ramayya
In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
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In Ramayya’s visionary poetry, the body assumes as many forms as love produces states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self.
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Investigate film as language, via the language of film reduced to the basic units of film and language. A film as text in which each frame is a single word.
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Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in an abandoned oil tanker on Hoy.