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Rest in peace to the seminal singer-actor and fashion icon Jane Birkin 🕊️Spend a day at the beach in this video for Birkin’s track ‘Di doo dah’ part of the British star’s first solo album

Happy Birthday to pioneering director Wong Kar Wai 🎥❤️ What is your favourite film by the Hong Kong auteur?⁠ ⁠ This iconic clip is taken from Chungking Express (1994), Kar Wai’s freewheeling portmanteau portrait of Hong Kong where a sense of wistful, romantic longing joins two stories ⁠

Friday feeling 💫Let loose with an en masse freakout to Jamie XX’s “Gosh” by choreographer Manon Bouquet

Remembering Frida Kahlo on the 69th anniversary of her death 🤍 This rare and precious footage shows Mexico's artistic power couple, Kahlo and Diego Rivera kissing and embracing at the Blue House, which is now known as The Frida Kahlo Museum

Watch a visual poem woven from the richness of Iran, collaborating with Iranian artists to support the women’s revolution by filmmaker Naghmeh Pour 🕊

NOW SHOWING ON NOWNESS! Step inside the housing association flat of artist and gardener Gerry Dalton, where he created a folk art monument around hundreds of sculptures

#TuesdayTexture: Watch London-based photographer Maisie Cousins get up close and personal with flowers and insects to explore the visceral and playful interactions that are all around us in nature 🐝🌸🌺

A beautifully ethereal scene from Kagerō-za (陽炎座) directed by Seijun Suzuki 🧡⁠ ⁠ Japanese visionary Suzuki played chaos like jazz in his films, which included anything-goes yakuza thrillers and daring postwar dramas of human frailty⁠

Feeling hungry? Take a satirical look at greenwashing and deceptive marketing in the fashion industry through a toxic futuristic chocolate bar 🍫⁠

Monday morning meditations ✨ Filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi⁠’s short film ‘The 99 Names of God’ explores the rhythmic rituals of mystic Islam, shedding light on the practices that have been part of the Islamic tradition throughout the centuries

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