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Spinning Sun

Our perception gets a refreshing reboot in this brief and whirling piece by filmmaker Dionysios Tanteles who takes us on a fun ride to, um, outer space? Maybe. You have to see it for yourself: Spinning Sun, a short film inspired by literary theory. Think ‘defamiliarization’ or, as Anais Nin wrote in her 1968 The Future of the Novel, “It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see.”

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Our perception gets a refreshing reboot in this brief and whirling piece by filmmaker Dionysios Tanteles who takes us on a fun ride to, um, outer space? Maybe. You have to see it for yourself: Spinning Sun, a short film inspired by literary theory. Think ‘defamiliarization’ or, as Anais Nin wrote in her 1968 The Future of the Novel, “It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see.”

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