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26 Oct 09

Total Immersion and the “Transfigured City:” Shared Augmented Realities, the “Web Squared Era,” and Google Wave | UgoTrade

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“networked urbanism
“make visible the invisible”
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- the Web Squared era is an era of augmented reality arriving (like the sensor revolution) stealthily, in more pedestrian clothes than we expected.… …our world will have “information shadows.” Augmented reality amounts to information shadows made

The Concept of the Aesthetic (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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The concept of the aesthetic descends from the concept of taste.
Rationalism about beauty is the view that judgments of beauty are
judgments of reason
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- the
  immediacy thesis—is that judgments of beauty are not (or at least
  not primarily) mediated by inferences from principles or applications
  of concepts, but rather have all the immediacy of straightforwardly
  sensory judgments; it is the idea, in other words, that we do not
  reason to the conclusion that things are beautiful, but rather
  “taste” that they are.
- we judge virtue by means of an immediate
  sensation of pleasure means that judgments of virtue are judgments of
  taste, no less than judgments of beauty
- the disinterest
  thesis—the thesis that pleasure in the beautiful is
  disinterested
- Artistic formalism is the view that the artistically relevant
  properties of an artwork
- are
  formal merely, where formal properties are typically regarded as
  properties graspable by sight or by hearing merely. Artistic formalism
  has been taken to follow from both the immediacy and the disinterest
  theses

Film Society of Lincoln Center

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one degree removed from standard documentary stalker-cam
Gomorrah is just the movie for a country that has installed a true despot in office not once, not twice, but three times.

New York Movies - The Average Giuseppes of Organized Crime in Gomorrah - page 1

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part Aztec pyramid, part minimum-security pen
the structure promotes a particular form of tunnel vision.
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- An exemplar for disastrous urban planning in its failed attempt to provide light and space for its inhabitants, the housing block serves Garrone as an
- allegorical landscape—at one point, a life-sized plaster saint is lowered down from someone's window
- neorealist reportage
- often-comic Camorrista fascination with Hollywood gangster flicks—mainly De Palma's Scarface, but also The Godfather, GoodFellas, and Pulp Fiction. "It's not the movie world that scans the criminal world for the most interesting behavior," he writes

Gomorrah (Gomorra) + Slumdog Millionaire

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ll deglamourized, harsh, expressionist stripping-away of illusions and idealism to reveal the gasping, grasping emptiness underneath
romanticized iconography
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- Scampia: the players in organized crime are imprisoned there by choice, trapped by the validation they desire from one another.
- impossibility of a solution to the Camorra crime syndicate's hold on Scampia
- Throughout runs the thread that the Camorra is shitting where it sleeps, poisoning Naples body and soul, with--and here's the damnable part of it--the mute consent of the people serving as their own willing executioners
- captures an existential crisis of complete hopelessness
- a war photographer's journal, taken at ground zero of the essential, inescapable tragedy of being human.

Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone, Italy) By Christoph Huber

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pile-up of images powerful in both concrete and metaphorical ways
Gomorrah manages to convince on the macro-level because its makers have taken care to actually attend to the micro-level and build their way up
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- This was doubly unforgivable as he had grown up, like the boys he depicts, in the gangster’s milieu, destined to become one of them
- The scene nicely sets up many of the paradoxical double binds and straightforward threats that will fuel the intersecting narrative strands
- foreshadowing the cycles of (retributional) violence that provide the loose convergences and inevitable culmination of the various storylines
- ingenious opening’s double duty as allegory
- strangely self-evident, surrealism,
- Gomorrah’s more indelible impressions stem from the—at times almost lunar—landscapes and strange interior spaces rather than from plot developments
- One Mafia affiliate in the business of disposing of toxic waste dryly comments that without their dirty work Campania couldn’t keep up with Europe. As he points to the surrounding fields, his earlier advice springs to mind: mix the toxins with compost and use it as fertilizer—it’s “stuff that the earth absorbs.”
- fate-stricken puzzle pictures;
- a world that has become one with the system.
- refusal to use non-diegetic music

12 Oct 09

Virtual reality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Some advanced, haptic systems now include tactile information, generally known as force feedback, in medical and gaming applications. Users can interact with a virtual environment or a virtual artifact (VA) either through the use of standard input devices such as a keyboard and mouse, or through multimodal devices such as a wired glove, the Polhemus boom arm, and omnidirectional treadmill
f three dimensional sound. This refers to the addition of sound channels both above and below the individual or a Holophony approach.
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- This would move virtual reality into the realm of simulated reality like the brain interface ports used in The Matrix. Alth

21 Sep 09

Crossings - Volume 1, Issue 1 - Michael Heim

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atmospheric
flow, the flow of words with visual images, the flow of group
dynamics and the flow between virtual and physical
architecture
aesthetic quality of spatial movement and occurs throughout the
physical world
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- Polarities create pulsations
- placing things in such
  a way as to enhance the flow of energies and minimize dissipation
- space-time differs from the physical to the
  virtual
- The distinction of
  ‘user’ and ‘user's tools’ opens a split
  between subject and object, user and field of use.
- ontology of worlds
- fields of energy in
  which substances relate to one another. Theories of relationships
  and configurations took precedence over theories of substantial
  entities
- focus on the
  interactive context in which the user is immersed.
- individual egos and substances
  could arise.
- subject's involvement in constructing networks to
  connect entities, persons and concrete projects. World is a
  construct that opens spaces for event-based interactions and for
  further constructions.
- existential understanding of reality
- importance of process
- concrete reality as dynamic process and conceived static
  entities as abstractions
- we locate the
  ‘substances’ of virtual worlds in event-based
  interactions
- They noted
  the special abstract quality of passive observation, and they
  highlighted the sensory involvement typically used by humans to
  engage actively in daily processes
- world and event
- Information, through the universal
  machine, can absorb everything, perhaps even quality, into the
  realm of numbers
- The universe exists on a fundamental level
  as a body of information that essentially dispenses with –
  at least in theory – any temporal unfolding. When the
  computer is regarded in this way as an exclusively informational
  device, the underlying ideal is to provide all-at-once knowledge
  (cognitio) without time lag, hesitation, or movement from
  one point to another.
- Spatial awareness
- contains
  profound affective/qualitative associations
- Fluid dynamics is a property of space and time. The
  active design of computer information space (virtual environments)
  is the design of spatial flow.
- each single component of the virtual environment
  influences the overall field of activity in such a way that the
  whole becomes a play of forces, a mutually concomitant origination
  through a single dominant atmosphere. The interactivity of
  individual subjects arises within this environmental field of
  aesthetic forces.
- optimal flow
- organic process
  coordinates with the graphics, the sense of immersion in the 3-D
  scene deepens
- avatar movement speed
  related to hand speed
- avatar
  self-perception
- general viewpoints along the axes
  allowed by the software
- atmospherics of 3-D space
- affective qualities and
  collective meaning
- ‘spirit of
  place’ and ‘ritual.
- the
  study of flow belongs to the qualitative aesthetics of interactive
  environments
- Virtual environments attach information to human perception,
  specifically to the human perception of multi-dimensional
  spaces
- virtual environment resembles actual physical environments insofar
  as the physical environment becomes a background field or
  surrounding context to support subconscious and conscious
  activities
- good
  virtual environment
- n environment that blends into the user's
  activities
- the environment flows
  smoothly in and out of the uses to which the participant puts
  it
- fluid medium that calls for participatory
  involvement
- subject of knowledge (the user) and the object studied
  tend to merge through usage and customization.
- Additive building re-configures already-existing
  models and requires navigation skills and familiarity with the
  software
- Authoring building has further requirements, such as
  skill with 3-D modeling packages
- require basic knowledge of Renderware scripting
- freedom and community
- CyberForum is to explore virtual worlds as meeting
  places for the exchange of ideas found in writings about digital
  technology
- flow of words with visuals
  flow of atmospherics
  flow of group dynamics
  flow of virtual with physical architecture (avatecture)
- Most worlds in
  ActiveWorlds follow the literalist style, implementing gravity,
  horizon and architecture that resembles conventional
  buildings.
- But do these object-references
  support the world and its interactive flow? The convention hall
  was a simulation of a physical convention hall – which might
  provide familiarity for navigating from point A to point B, but
  which does not draw on the non-literalist possibilities of the
  virtual environment.

14 Sep 09

VJing, Technology and Intelligibility | Vague Terrain

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pre-individual as an initial super-saturation of potentials, a reserve of intensities not yet organised into specific forms
The pre-individual reality is actualized as the psychic being through individuation
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- VJ performance, intuition, selection, composition, mixing, and triggering would be enveloped in a set of actions experienced as collective.
- ndividuation in its collective aspect makes a group individual, one that is associated with the group through the preindividual reality it carries within itself, conjoining it to all other individuals; it individuates as a collective unit
- technical object, a 'transindividual' relationship between humans can emerge. This relationality between human is based on pre-individual potentialities.
- Rodger, Pesh and Dave are in complex inter-human relationality in the intense moment of artistic composition
- opens up a way for humans to relate to each other that does not relate to essentialized categories of identity and fixed predicates.
- The living entity is determined by its becoming (which is a part of the overall being), therefore it is proceeding, or becoming according to something that it internal to it
- Rather the living entity is already part of a larger collectivity through the pre-individual reality that is individuated
- Pre-individual reality is not an 'essence' but is a dimension of individuation. A dimension of the individuation of the technical ensemble emerges from the pre-individual potentials.
- technological intelligibility of collectives
- Collectivity

13 Sep 09

VJing, Technology and Intelligibility | Vague Terrain

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technical ensemble of the VJ setup (including the VJ performer) cannot be dissociated from the milieu of the event, and that these two condition each other
where the interval between the triggering of an event and its processing/ reception falls beneath the threshold of sensible perception
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- VJ's experience of instantaneous playback is dependent on the speed of processing of the VJ's technical setup
- VJ performs can be characterised as something contingent, transitory and impermanent: as potentiality
- the present is not experienced as the 'now' between past and future but rather where time is transformed, and past and future flow into each other
- image flow, as 'eventness,' situated outside the realm or representation
- ensemble produces meaning relationally via the technical ensemble, evolving through restructuring
- regime of internal resonance is able to mediate between the divergent orders that constitute the being in individuation
- the individual brings about its own individuation, through actualization of the latent potentials in the system in a restructuring of itself and its milieu
- intuition is a movement by which thought emerges from and recognises its own relation to duration and thus the relations of difference and entwinement it has with other durations

VJing, Technology and Intelligibility | Vague Terrain

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Setup
characterizes a technical object's existence as 'somewhere between a transient, unstable event and a durable, heavily reproduced structure
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- 'Changeover' in this event was a series of reconfigurations of the technical ensemble corresponding to each new VJ or VJ group taking over the visuals on screen
- transient event
- resilient structure
- concretisation refers to the process of stabilisation through which diverse realities intersect
- Ensembles may concretize differently through the reconfiguration of the relationality between the technical elements
- The realities that congeal to form the technical element have their own spatiality and temporality, and therefore networks of elements brought together in an ensemble create a spatially and temporally distributed ensemble
- An object is only technical if it occurs in relation with other objects, in a network where it takes on the meaning of a key point
- organization of the technicity of technical elements
- genesis as a network of relations
- Temporal reticulation consists of resumptions of the object in which it is reactualised, renovated, repeated under the very conditions of its initial fabrication.
- Iteration
- mplies a cyclicality or repetition of the genesis of the object
- Concretization can be understood as a kind of 'history' of an object; that which gives the technical object its consistency at the end of an evolutionary process.
- it is this process that at once brings the individual into being and determines all the distinguishing characteristics of its development, organization and modalities
- metastability
- metastability is the state of temporary resolution that is affected not as a fully static state, but as one point within the being's individuation
- Incompatibilities resonant in the being through the difficulty in mediating between different orders are resolved by the entity through the activation of potentials latent in the pre-individual reality inherent within it
- potentialized middle zone
- intertwined individuation between living and technical entities
- Individuation is itself a transductive process that can be 'physical, biological, mental, or social
- The conflicts within the living being and the technical object are temporarily resolved through transductive processes of progressive modification and restructuring, acting as mediators between the seemingly disparate orders.
- resolve a set of localized constraints, which were technical, financial, and geographical.

VJing, Technology and Intelligibility | Vague Terrain

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globally evolving set of practices, engaging people from all around the world, who network together in communities that develop through both talking about and 'doing' VJing
rather conceiving of technology as evolving through ongoing relationality
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- Technicity
- concretization
- the technical element, the technical individual and the technical ensemble
- objects can be isolated from their context quickly and easily, and do not need any infrastructures to function. They are mobile and transferable, and can be widely dispersed and used across a multitude of different communities.
- Simondon's notion of technicity pertains to the convergence of different realities that allow the rake to become the object that it is
- stabilization of this set of divergent realities through time and space into a localizable network of relations that allow the rake to perform its task.
- These elements and their 'milieus' mutually shape each other. In some cases the technical individual conditions itself through what Simondon terms an 'associated milieu'
- how technological objects are apprehended as 'black boxes', where a wider relationality is collapsed artificially into a solidified entity
- Technicity is the degree to which disparate realities temporarily converge within a technical object.
- concretization describes the process of temporary congealment

VJing, Technology and Intelligibility: Exploring the Emergent Practices of VJing Through the Work of Gilbert Simondon | Vague Terrain

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VJ culture

Media Art Net | Granular Synthesis: Pole

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obsessive visual language
obsessive visual language
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- obsessive visual language
- obsessive visual language

Artlink Magazine - The Work of Art in the Age of Biocybernetic Reproduction - The quarterly art magazine that links art and society

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post-human age
post-human age
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- arts, traditional humanistic disciplines and Enlightenment modes of rationality may seem ill-prepared
- arts, traditional humanistic disciplines and Enlightenment modes of rationality may seem ill-prepared
- bare life
- What is the structure of scientific and technical knowledge itself
- 'biocybernetic reproduction
- combination of computer technology and biological science that makes cloning and genetic engineering possible
- new technical media and structures of political economy that are transforming the conditions of all living organisms on this planet
- Biocybernetics,' then, refers not only to the field of control and communication, but to that which eludes control and refuses to communicate
- biology has replaced physics
- digital information has replaced the physical quanta of mass and energy
- biocybernetic reproduction has replaced Walter Benjamin's mechanical reproduction as the fundamental technical determinant of our age.
- eproductive processes of the biological sciences
- Even war, the most dramatic and defining historical event human beings can experience, turns out in our time to take on a radically indeterminate and nebulous shape.
- Matrix, that glorifies a small band of hacker terrorists who are determined to bring down the entire world economic and political system because they resent the fact that computers are controlling human life
- modernity and mechanical reproduction seemed to bring along with them a revival of primitive and archaic formations
- a rethinking of our condition in the perspective of deep time, in order to produce a synthesis of the arts and sciences adequate to the challenges we face.
- paleontology of the present
- dinosaur a monument to the monstrous total state, but in our time, it has become a figure for a new monster, the multi-national corporation
- convergence on a common theme with the full range of strategies available to visual artists today: painting, sculpture, photography, video, conceptualism, installations, and forms of interactive media are deployed with a wide range of affective charges
- indefinite maintenance of a life form in perfect self-regulating equilibrium, but the resurrection of extinct life with cybernetic codes. The dream of control over life, its reduction to calculable, mechanical processes, is here projected as the ultimate fantasy: not just the conquest of death (as in Frankenstein) but the conquest of species death by cloning the DNA of extinct creatures.
- Biocybernetics is about the attempt to control bodies with codes, images with language
- mass creation, the fantasy of unlimited and controlled production and reproduction, accompanied by an ever-widening spiral of consumption.

02 Sep 09

myfuture :: My Guide :: Career Development

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self-concept, interests, skills, knowledge, personality, ethnicity, age, gender, ability, disability, health, beliefs and sexual orientation
amily, peers, friends or colleagues from your school or workplace, employers, the media, community groups and clubs
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- region or location you live in
- socioeconomic status
- financial commitments
- historical trends
- political decisions
- clarifying what your needs are
- identify your preferences and experiences

29 Aug 09

New Media Art - M/Cyclopedia of New Media

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New media technologies are defined as technologies that were invented, or began integration into society from the mid 20th Century
the three Cs: Computing, Communication and Content
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- "Art’s transformation into a dematerialised state" has deeply changed the viewing and consumption experience of art, along with its distribution and collection by private individuals (Suchin, 2004, p.68)

New media art - Australia's Culture Portal

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The new media art movement challenges conventional notions of 'what art is' and the role it plays in our society. Audiences are challenged - and confronted - by different art forms, disciplines and media.
interaction and collaboration between art and science; using art to give a new perspective on scientific endeavours, as well as using scientific developments to discover new media for producing works of art.
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- high performance visualisation laboratory to help represent her body in combination with medical imaging technology.
- crosses boundaries and disciplines
- Australian sound is seen as
  
  part of the 'complex interplay of site, language and technology' that contributes to Australian identity.
  
  Sound installations are seen as 'powerful tools to access the collective consciousness associated with sites, each one an ever-changing audible polyphony'.
- work with diabetes, genetics, and DNA sequencers as
  sources for sound material in an ANAT project at the Garvin Institute. In the process they are translating data obtained
  from the processes within the living cell into compositions.

17 Aug 09

HorizonZero Issue 08 : REMIX

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the way the artist interacts with his or her machinery; on the "samples" chosen and the way they are related; and on the relationship between the work (which is always a work in progress) and the audience
two modes of knowledge: that of the savage mind and the scientific mind
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- bricoleur
- the bricoleur seeks above all (more or less consciously) to preserve the qualitative complexity of the world by transposing this complexity onto structures of components with diverse and subtle relationships. This complexity is sacrificed by the scientific mind in favour of intelligibility.⁵ The bricoleur thus displays concern for recuperation, and thereby responds to a profound need: that of creating meaning through reassembly, by (re)organising and weaving meaningful relationships among apparently heterogeneous objects.
- blossoming of a culture which is neither "traditional "
- nor "erudite"
- product of hybridization, and of the appropriation and (re)invention of expressive means
- by sub-groups which are usually marginalized and/or proletarianized
- "death of ideology"
- remix culture in a narrow sense
- can be seen as a kind of exacerbation, a mise en abime, of remix culture in the broad sense
- we don't speak about revolution, or even evolution, but rather of globalization, the Web and the Net. Cultural relativism and individualism appear as obligatory counterparts to this encroachment, this reduction of the world to a tide of particulars
- Today we have the impression of living not in the here-and-now of a particular historical period, but in a world that is both instantaneous and cumulative
- We live today in a "rerun" and "remake" culture in which everything is simultaneously visible and audible, and where information is "continuous"
- a culture that embraces recycling and gleaning; and one whose originality lies in having transformed pre-recorded works and transmitting devices like turntables
- into means of artistic creation. Here, the means of reproduction takes precedence and are used for production.⁹ In this way, the very concept of the "original work" is effaced and loses its meaning.
- culture of intervention and reinvention whose goal is entertainment but also communion and liberation
- Remix culture borrows its sensorial saturation from post-industrial society, but reproduces this saturation in an aesthetic context that channels it

HorizonZero Issue 08 : REMIX

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memory as a vast playhouse where any sound can be you
A poem of yourself written in synaptic reverie, a chemical soup filled with electric pulses, it loops around and brings a lot of baggage with it. At heart, the process is an abstract machine made to search in the right place for the right codes
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- "mind/brain" interface
- perceptual (and perpetual) illusion
- When recorded, adapted, remixed, and uploaded, expression becomes a stream unit of value in a fixed and remixed currency that is traded via the ever shifting currents of information moving through the networks we use to talk with one another
- It's the structure of the perceptions and the texts and the memories that are conditioned by your thought-process that will echo and configure the way that texts you're familiar with rise into prominence when you think.
- soundbite mentality
- Think of DJ culture as a kind of archival impulse put to a kind of hunter-gatherer milieu
- mind/brain interface becomes emergent system of large scale economies of expression
- You can think of sampling as a story you are telling yourself - one made of the world as you can hear it, and the theatre of sounds that you invoke with those fragments is all one story made up of many. Think of it as the act of memory moving from word to word as a remix: complex becomes multiplex becomes omniplex.
- It's a shareware world on the Web
- when we browse and search, we invoke a series of chance operations - we use interfaces, icons, and text as a flexible set of languages and tools. Our semantic web is a remix of all available information - display elements, metadata, services, images, and especially content - made immediately accessible. The result is an immense repository - an archive of almost anything that has ever been recorded.
- it's that minimalist, and that simple. That's what makes it deeply complex.
- the truly interdisciplinary semantic web guide combines aspects of artificial intelligence, markup languages, natural language processing, information retrieval, knowledge representation, intelligent agents, and databases.
- collaborative filtering
- The semantic web is an intangible sculptural body that exists only in the virtual space between you and the information you perceive
- to make us remember that we are warm-blooded mammals, and that the cold information we generate is a product of our desires, and manifests some deep elements of our being

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The Concept of the Aesthetic (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Film Society of Lincoln Center

New York Movies - The Average Giuseppes of Organized Crime in Gomorrah - page 1

Gomorrah (Gomorra) + Slumdog Millionaire

Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone, Italy) By Christoph Huber

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