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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a review of the short flm, Bare Bones (2021), directed by Meryem Lahlou. This animated short film takes up a big topic: what does it mean to be a human being? We first see a creature crawling across a stark...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a review of the short flm, Life (2021), directed by Mohammad Mohammadian. This film is four seconds long. Its purpose is to impress upon the viewer how short life is. If life is short, then we had better get to...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a review of the short flm, Misery Loves Company (2020), directed by Sasha Lee. This quirky animated short film has a very dark side. Three odd characters, presumably teenagers, are laying on their backs looking...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a flm review of Flee (2021), directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen. Keywords Refugees, Afghanistan, LGBTQ identity, Taliban This unusual documentary is based on director Rasmussen's 25-year friendship with Amin...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a flm review of the animated short flm, The Fourfold (2020), directed by Alisi Telengut. Alisi Telengut is a Canadian of Mongolian descent who has created an evocative short film expressing the beliefs of her...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLaura Conway's grandparents, Shirley and David Bramhall, were American communists. In this film, Conway uses footage of her grandparents that she filmed before their deaths, as well as FBI records (disclosed to her by...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a flm review of Sabaya (2021), directed by Hogir Hirori. Keywords ISIS, sex trafcking, slavery, genocide, Yazidi Sabaya is the name captors use for Yazidi women. While watching this film I was reminded of...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a review of the short flm, Revelations (2021), directed by Jack Dunphy. Revelations is a mix of animation and live action. The contrast between the animation and the live actions raises the question of what the...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a review of the short flm, Bambirak (2020), directed by Zamarin Wahdat. The director, Zamarin Wahdat, is herself an Afghan woman who grew up in Germany, where the story takes place. The challenges she faced as...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a review of the short flm, There (2020), directed by Wu Yu Fen. This is a film about death and how people respond to death. The grandfather has died and Shally, his Indonesian caregiver, must arrange his...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a review of the short flm, I Think It's Enough, Isn't It? (2021), directed by Emily Shir Segal. This film tells two stories at once. The first story is about the death of Emily Shir Segal's father. Her father...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a review of the short flm, Catastrophe Anthem (2021), directed by Christopher Hewitt. Keywords End of World, Apocalyptic In this film, Tuesday presents the catastrophe anthem. Against a background of...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a review of the short flm, Lizard (2020), directed by Akinola Davies. A young girl, Juwon, who lives in Lagos, Nigeria, finds herself expelled from her Sunday school classroom. While waiting to return to the...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a flm review of Mass (2021), directed by Fran Kranz. Keywords Reconciliation, School shootings, Forgiveness Fran Kranz has made a remarkable film for his directorial debut, set in a small Episcopal...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a flm review of Izaokas (Isaac), directed by Jurgis Matulevicius. The story begins with the infamous Lietukis Garage Massacre on June 27, 1941. Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators tortured and murdered...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a flm review of Cryptozoo (2021), directed by Dash Shaw. Keywords Mythological creatures, Environmentalism Cryptids are animals whose existence is disputed or hidden, and this film applies this term to all...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a review of the short flm, This Is the Way We Rise (2019), directed by Ciara Lacy. This Is The Way We Rise is a beautiful short film that vividly demonstrates in word and image the power of poetry and...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a review of the short flm, Mountain Cat (2020), directed by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir. A young woman is taken to the Shaman who has the power to protect her. The Shaman tells the young woman that she is like a...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a flm review of Pleasure (2021), directed by Ninja Thyberg. Sundance is no stranger to topics such as the pornography industry (for example, the 2015 documentary Hot Girls Wanted). Pleasure, however, is a...
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From:Journal of Religion and Film (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is a flm review of Rebel Hearts (2021), directed by Pedro Kos. Keywords Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Roman Catholic Church, Vatican II, Social Justice In Los Angeles in the 1960s, the community of...