Film Grain Stories
Welcome to Film Grain Stories by Amanita Efira, where grain meets vulnerability and chaos
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I Should Have Brought More Film (opens the original)
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La Palma was a semi-familiar place and I thought it wouldn’t blow my mind quite as much, but I don’t know what I was thinking when I decided to bring 2 film rolls on this trip.In my defence, I thought I’d bring most of my film stash to a little tour I did at the beginning of the summer, ignoring my unconditional love for landscapes and the Canaries.These islands are a gift from nature.We took it slow, 3 days and 5 humans all brought together by my mom. The plan was just to explore the south west
Between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic (opens the original)
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I got a crush at the beginning of the summer. It was unexpected.It took me a bus ride to the southernmost point of Europe. Stop after stop, the landscape shifted from urban centers to a vast forest of alcornoques, encinas, and pines. The sun was going down, and the light felt like a hug through the bus window. I spotted storks and wild horses on the hillside; a dream for any window-seat person.Subscribe nowI didn’t know much about the place, other than that it was a kitesurfin
Someone Was Here (opens the original)
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Hello Substack friends! I’m excited to share with you another piece that I recently found while going through my archives.Isn’t it funny how the bigger your archives get, the more patterns you may find about what catches your attention?<source type="ima
Shooting Around the Island of the Gods (opens the original)
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Listening to my favorite podcast (Sabiduría Psicodélica), they touched on this idea that the language we speak shapes the way we approach the world.And that stuck with me.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="977" src=
South of the north (opens the original)
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I was in college when I first heard about this place. So close, and yet so far from the place I was born.It was one of those paid reportages from the beginning of YouTube. My favorite journalist, who I had interviewed in a bar that doesn’t exist anymore in Madrid a few weeks before it was released, was driving my favorite musician to the north of the country.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RHV_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/ht
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