CLÉMENCE POLÈS FARHANG

Let's be honest.

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Scenes from 2025

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Clémence's Top Ten Films of 2025

The President's Cake dir. Hasan Hadi

Historias del buen valle dir. José Luis Guerín

O Riso e a Faca dir. Pedro Pinho

Tardes de soledad dir. Albert Serra

L'Aventura dir. Sophie Letourneur

April dir. Dea Kulumbegashvili

The Smashing Machine dir. Benny Safdie

Hamnet dir. Chloé Zhao

With Hasan in Gaza dir. Kamal Aljafari

Below The Clouds dir Gianfranco Rosi

*My diary of 2025 films can be found HERE.

*And the 2025 films that I haven't watched HERE.

**Notable mentions: 

Sorry, Baby dir Eva Victor

Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due dir. Abdellatif Kechiche

Peter Hujar’s Day dir. Ira Sachs

Sirāt dir. Oliver Laxe

Splitsville dir. Michael Angelo Covino

The Voice of Hind Rajab dir. Kaouther Ben Hania

If I had Legs I'd Kick You dir. Mary Bronstein

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Details from the Issey Miyake Spring Summer '26 show in Paris at Pompidou

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Clemence's Top Ten Albums of 2025

venturing ‘Ghostholding' [deadAir]

Moin ‘Belly Up' [AD 93]

Klein ‘thirteen sense' [Parkwuud Entertainement]

Rosalía ‘LUX' [Columbia Records]

Kelela ‘In The Blue Light' [Warp Records]

Alpha Maid ‘Is This a Queue' [AD 93]

Raisa K ‘Affectionately' [15 love]

John Glacier ‘Like a Ribbon [Young]

feeo ‘Goodness' [AD 93]

Cole Pulice ‘Land's End Eternal' [Leaving Records All Genre]

**Notable mentions:

Ganvya ‘Nilam' [LEITER]

Walt McClements ‘On a Painted Ocean' [Western Vinyl]

1PLIKÉ140 ‘P1' [BRICKS]

Kilbourne ‘If Not To Give A Fantasy' [Hammerhead Records]

Asinine ‘La jetée' [52Hertz & Filigrane]

Blawan ‘SickElixir' [XL Recordings]

Bryson Tiller ‘Solace & The Vices' [RCA Records]

Makaya McCraven ‘Hidden Out!' [International Anthem Recording Co]

Eterna ‘Debunker' [section1]

Essex Honey ‘Blood Orange' [RCA Records]

Kim Hiorthøy ‘Ghost Note' [Carrying Colour]

PinkPantheress ‘Fancy That' [Warner Records]

Hamza ‘MANIA' [Just Woke Up]

Erika de Casier ‘Lifetime' [Independent Jeep Music]

Maybach Hurt ‘Putrid Melodies' [White Garden]

Duval Timothy ‘wishful thinking' [Carrying Colour]

Oklou ‘Choke Enough' [True Panther Records]

MK Velsorf, Aase Nielsen ‘Opening Night' [Awe]

Deftones ‘private music' [Reprise Records]

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Female Perversions by Susan Streitfeld, 1996

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Sunsets at Playa del Carmen

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Kaveh Kazemi - Revolutionaries The First Decade, Nazar Publishing, 2017

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Clemence’s Top Ten Films of 2024

No Other Land dir. Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal

My favourite Cake dir. Maryam Moghaddam & Behtash Sanaeeha

All We Imagine as Light dir. Payal Kapadia

Dahomey dir. Mati Diop

In His Own Image dir Thierry de Peretti

Cent Mille Milliards dir. Virgil Vernier

Hard Truths dir. Mike Leigh

Miséricorde dir. Alain Guiraudie

The Fall Guy dir David Leitch

Bird dir. Andrea Arnold

*My diary of 2024 films can be found HERE.

**Notable mentions: 

DJ Mehdi : Made in France dir. Thibaut de Longeville (Not exactly a film, but this 6-part documentary series is definitely one of my favorite watches of the year.)

Good One dir. India Donaldson

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Clemence’s Top Ten Albums of 2024

Moin ‘You Never End’ [AD93]

Astrid Sonne ‘Great Doubt’ [Escho]

Mica Levi ‘Slob Air’ [Hyperdub]

Mabbe Fratti ‘Sentir Que No Sabes’ [Unheard of Hope]

Mk.gee ‘Two Star & The Dream Police' [R&R Digital]

Total Blue ‘Total Blue’ [Music From Memory]

Bar Italia ‘The Tw*ts’ [Matador]

Shygirl ‘Club Shy’ [Because Music]

Fennesz 'Mosaic' [Touch / Fairwood]

Princ​€​ss 'Princ​€​ss' [wherethetimegoes]

**Notable mentions:

William Basinski 'September 23rd' [Temporary Residence]

Quiet Husband ‘Religious Equipment’ [Drowned By Locals]

Molina ‘When you wake up’ [escho]

Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru ‘Souvenirs’ [Mississippi]

Klein ‘marked’ [Parkwuud Entertainment]

Chris Cohen ‘Paint A Room’ [Hardly Art]

Maureen ‘Bad Queen’ [Mau Art Productions]

Bad Gyal ‘La Joia’ [UMG Recording]

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Kyoichi Tsuzuki's Happy Victims Series (1999-2004)

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Behind the scenes of Baserange, July 2024

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'From Window' with Yoko, Masahisa Fukase, 1974

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Recueil. Personnalités du Second Empire, types égyptiens, vues d'Égypte et de Lorraine

1860-1890

Massé, Henri (1886-1969)

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Puerto Escondido, 2022

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Clemence's Top Ten Films of 2023

Perfect Days dir. Wim Wenders

Four Daughters dir. Kaouther Ben Hania

Kokomo City dir. D. Smith

Menus-Plaisirs - Les Troisgros dir. Frederick Wiseman

The Zone of Interest dir. Jonathan Glazer

Rotting in The Sun dir. Sebastián Silva

Coconut Head Generation dir. Alain Kassanda

Green Border dir. Agnieszka Holland *should be screened at all schools tbh

Retratos Fantasmas dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho

Bottoms dir. Emma Seligman

*My diary of 2023 films can be found HERE.

**Notable mentions:  

How to Have Sex dir. Molly Manning Walker

Beau is Afraid dir. Ari Aster.

Youth (Spring) dir. Wang Bing

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Clémence’s Top Ten Albums of 2023

Nourished by Time 'Erotic Probiotic 2' [Scenic Route]

Kelela 'Raven' [Warp]

André 3000 'New Blue Sun' [Epic Records]

Mabe Fratti 'Se Ve Desde Aquí' [Unheard of Hope]

Dreamcrusher 'Suite TWO' [Self-released]

Sweeping Promises 'Good Living Is Coming For You' [Feel it Records]

Tirzah 'trip9love​.​.​.​?​?​?' [Domino ]

Donna Candy 'Blooming' [Bison]

Overmono 'Good Lies' [XL]

Feeble Little Horse 'Girl With Fish' [Saddle Creek]

*Favorite tracks of 2022 can be listened HERE.

**Notable mentions:

Biosphere 'Inland Delta' [Biophon Records]

Amor Muere 'A time to love, a time to die' [Scrawl World]

Yo La Tengo 'This Stupid World' [Matador]

Dry Cleaning 'Swampy EP' [4AD]

Tolerance 'Anonym' [MESH-KEY Records]

Hajj 'No Soul, No God, No Devil, No Existence' [Youth]

Josiah Steinbrick 'For Anyone That Knows You' [Unseen Worlds]

Christina Vantzou and John Also Bennett 'Κλίμα (Klima)' [Editions Basilic]

ytboutthataction 'love & vex' [DE22 & DMY]

Tzusing "绿帽 Green Hat" [Pan]

Snow Strippers 'April Mixtape 3' [Surf Gang Records]

David Edren & H.Takahashi 'Flow | 流れ' [Aguirre Records]

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Asia Argento's hair in New Rose Hotel by Abel Ferrara