Contrarium
TomA contrarian perspective. Film, literature, travel and thoughts on recent events.
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The end is near
A few pundits, even smart ones, seem to believe that we are reaching "the end of the liberal order” and that the “woke” age is about to be gone forever. Such type of analysis is interesting and often insightful, but… Honestly, I see no evid...
Tuscania at night
San Pietro church, Tuscania.
I was in Rome but I wanted to visit the small villages of Calcata and Tuscania, both in the Lazio region (Viterbo province), and both which appear in different scenes of the film Nostalghia, by Tarkovsky.
I s...
What will 2026 bring?
January 11. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. A lot of snow has fallen over Germany in the last couple of weeks, so much that it caused chaos in transportation, with endless traffic jams and hundreds of trains cancelled or delayed.
I...
Merry Christmas!
When I was a child, we didn’t have snow for Christmas. In fact, it was usually very hot, since I grew up in the Southern Hemisphere with December 25th falling on one of the hottest days of the year. One time it got to 42 degrees Celsius. Lu...
How to be positive in a negative world?
There is a nice poem by Elizabeth Bishop about “the art of losing”. It’s about how we get used to losing things, from keys to places to people. Everything in life is ephemeral.
Sometimes I think I could write a similar poem called “The Ar...
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Writer and filmmaker living in Montreal, Canada, since 2013. Author of "Our Pets and Us: The Evolution of our Relationship" (2019) and director of several award-winning short films.
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