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Something and Then Nothing: Creativity After Everyone Stops Paying Attention

On impatience, winter heat waves and the ebbs and flows of creativity

Mar 5 • Colleen Claes

It’s hard to decide on a movie when your government is trying to kill you

Notes on anger, injustice and systemic chaos

Jan 25 • Colleen Claes

Stay Delusional

Notes on remaining an artist

Nov 14, 2025 • Colleen Claes

Love letters to worse worlds #3: Midsommar

A love letter to one of the best twisted films of the modern era

Sep 11, 2025 • Colleen Claes

Summertime Sadness.

Summer is not my aesthetic or my vibe.

Jul 7, 2025 • Colleen Claes

Every Living Thing

And on being old enough to know better

May 14, 2025 • Colleen Claes

Love letters to worse worlds #2: Children of Men

A love letter to the best feature-length dystopian film ever made (imo)

May 1, 2025 • Colleen Claes

notes from my notes app lately

Origin of the word “wanderlust” – medieval Germany (confirm)

Apr 2, 2025 • Colleen Claes

Love letters to worse worlds #1: La Jetée

A love letter to a short film made entirely of still images

Mar 23, 2025 • Colleen Claes

A Life Without Winters

Reflections during a February that feels like summer

Feb 24, 2025 • Colleen Claes

Notes on New German Cinema and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

a movement marked by postwar reckoning and intentional discomfort

Feb 18, 2025 • Colleen Claes

Notes on a city you can hypothetically conquer

Abbreviated musings from an exhausted woman after a move

Dec 15, 2024 • Colleen Claes

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