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Karim's Projection

Karim's Projection

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Thoughts, diaries, politics, and cinema. Mostly cinema. From Beirut.

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Hello World! I came, I saw, and so I blogged. I will be writing more about life, experiences I've been through, and a bit about cinema, something I hold dearly to my heart.

In the Mood for Love: A Film Made of Details
Aug 29, 2026
In the Mood for Love might be the most beautiful film I've ever seen. Wong Kar-wai doesn't tell this story through plot — he tells it through details. A cigarette ember glowing in the dark. A glance held a second too long. The same narrow stairwell, walked past each other again and again, two lives brushing against one another without ever quite touching. The cigarette smoke in this film is doing so much work. It drifts through nearly every frame like its own presence — hanging in doorways, curl...
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The Shadow That Never Quite Lands: Vampyr and the Birth of Atmospheric Horror
Aug 25, 2026
There's a moment early in Carl Th. Dreyer's Vampyr (1932) where a shadow moves independently of the body that should be casting it - a gravedigger's shadow shovels earth on its own, unmoored from the man standing beside the grave. It's a small, almost throwaway image, and it tells you everything about what this film is doing that almost nothing else from the period attempts. Vampyr isn't interested in scaring you the way its contemporaries were. It's interested in making the world itself feel un...
This Bird Is Named Wrong and Doesn't Care
Aug 20, 2026
The pink robin lives in the cool, wet forests of southeastern Australia — Tasmania, Victoria, a bit of New South Wales — and weighs about 10 grams, roughly three sheets of paper. The male carries a genuinely rare color for a wild bird: a deep rose-pink breast set against a charcoal-black head and back. Pink almost never occurs naturally in feathers; when it does show up in birds, it's usually diet-driven, like flamingos and their shrimp. Here it's just built in, for no ecological reason anyone n...
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An Introduction about me
Aug 9, 2026
A Village, Two Cities, and a Curious Mind for Science and Art
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