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An extraordinarily simple premise deftly executed, this video arranges a diverse group of 100 people in ascending order from age one to 100. With a snare drum to mark the progression, the resulting short film, People in Order: Age, is imbued with humour and humanity. In the words of the filmmakers, the project is ‘like a list of government statistics where the citizens […] have broken out from behind the figures on the page. The people on the screen stop us from seeing them as numbers. Even in single-second bursts there are worlds of personality stretching out in front of us.’
Directors: Lenka Clayton, James Price
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Love and friendship
Never marry a man you love too much, and other views on romance in Sierra Leone
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Virtues and vices
Why Bennie tried to disappear, and what happened when he was found decades later
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History of technology
Curious singles and tech sceptics – what ‘computer dating’ looked like in 1966
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Cognition and intelligence
A father forgets his child’s name for the first time in this poetic reflection on memory
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Technology and the self
The commodified childhood – scenes from two sisters’ lives in the creator economy
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Anthropology
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Sports and games
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Spirituality
Through rituals of prayer, a monk cultivates a quietly radical concept of freedom
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Language and linguistics
Why Susan listens to recordings of herself speaking a language she no longer remembers
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