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" The medium of film is really wonderful because it can behave in the same way as collage and painting; it can be layered and non-literal. "
Wangechi Mutu
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" We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the Internet. But we're still very animalistic. "
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