posts on the norient space by Lola Baraldi

Every story results from the tension between form and content. But these rarely deviate from the usual. In the film «Dazzle Lights», the viewer is confronted with a radical blurring. Read an essay about the possibilities of surreal and nonlinear narrative.

Since hip hop’s birth, samples of politicized words have resonated across genres. In the following examples, Lola Baraldi traces out music that gives political words a new meaning through distortion, cutting and pasting, amplification, and camouflage. These approaches, Baraldi argues, break out from traditional modes of social commentary and denunciation, often taking the shape of danceable satire.