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What Consent Means When Everyone Around You Is Filming

The creator economy runs on capturing real life, often in places and moments no one agreed to share. As audiences grow tired of feeling like extras in someone else's video, the unspoken deal that let influencers film first and ask never is quietly falling apart.

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Film producer Christel Henon smiling in a yellow dress against a floral tiled wall
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How Christel Henon Traded a Law Career for the Freedom of Cinema

After more than 25 years as a lawyer, the Luxembourg based producer built a film company that would go on to co-produce a Palme d'Or winner. Christel Henon says the pull was simple, the freedom that cinema offers, and her legal past turned out to be the steadiest foundation for a chaotic industry.

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An enigmatic surrealist oil painting by Elena Von Kohn of figures on a plank suspended over water beneath a pale sky
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How Elena Von Kohn Built a New Language of Enigmatic Surrealism

The German-born, Moscow-trained painter does not set out to depict dreams. She wants her canvases to leave you with the feeling of having just woken from one, holding a truth you cannot quite put into words. She calls it enigmatic surrealism, and it has made her one of the more distinctive voices in contemporary art.

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