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After suffering monstrous childhood abuse, Jelena Stefulic has worked to reclaim her image and her identity. In the short documentary Jelena’s Song, she retraces her life for the Colombian-born director Pablo Alvarez-Mesa, using photographs, lyrical video fragments and her own powerful words to form a poetic account of her memories and a revitalised perspective on her past. Told with unflinching honesty as well as due care and sensitivity, the resulting film is a powerful meditation on trauma and personal transformation.
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Sports and games
Havana’s streets become racetracks in this exhilarating portrait of children at play
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Spirituality
Through rituals of prayer, a monk cultivates a quietly radical concept of freedom
4 minutes
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Design and fashion
A ceramicist puts her own bawdy spin on the folk language of pottery
14 minutes
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Art
Radical doodles – how ‘exquisite corpse’ games embodied the Surrealist movement
15 minutes
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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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Home
How an artist transformed a dilapidated hunting lodge into a house made of dreams
8 minutes
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Family life
The migrants missing in Mexico, and the mothers who won’t stop searching for them
21 minutes
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Virtues and vices
Why Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith were divided on the virtues of vanity
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Beauty and aesthetics
In art, the sublime is a feedback loop, evolving with whatever’s next to threaten us
9 minutes