elemental

“American events, world events, felt intense and still do … It’s the feeling of elemental forces versus human beings, and that will never go out of fashion.”

One really important form of social attention is so elemental to human life that it is the necessary precondition to survive.

Beyond politics, Torres thinks “I’m Still Here” has done so well around the world because audiences feel an elemental empathy for a mother and her children in distress.

Nonetheless, the film’s visual sensibility was guided by elemental factors inherent to the scenes, which so often pivot around movement and physical contact.

During the 2024 campaign and transition period, Trump and his cronies have broadcast their determination “to entrench within the machinery of the U.S. government… elemental disdain for intellectuals, analysts, and experts.”