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Princess Mononoke | Photo Credit: Creative Commons It was only recently, with the advent of the rising usage of AI, that the ‘Ghibli Filter’ trend took the internet by storm. Amidst this, arrived the release of the recently remastered ‘Princess Mononoke’, which reminded the world once again that no matter how much artificial intelligence may try, it can never quite understand the emotional depth and capture the true essence that lies in each perfect hand-crafted frame made by Hayao Miyazaki and the artists at Studio Ghibli. Set in the Muromachi Period of Japan, we are quickly introduced to our protagonist,…

Flow | Photo Credit: Creative Commons In an era of big-budget studio-produced animation films, one of the most memorable and groundbreaking motion pictures comes in the form of the delicate story of a cat’s journey in a world that feels oddly familiar, perhaps because one can imagine such a situation is not too far away from occurring on our planet. The film follows the journey of a cat that lives by itself in a jungle but must now fight to survive in a world that is suddenly devastated by a great flood. Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis’ ‘Flow’ pulls you in…