By Alif Ibrahim — 10 July, 2020

  In one of cinema’s most famous match cuts, a primate flings a stiff, chalky bone towards the heavens. Its rise precedes a sequence of coasting spaceships: their soothing glide choreographed to a waltz, miles away from the violence we’ve witnessed just moments before. The transcendence of man (and men only) traced in Kubrick’s 2001:…

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