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The year 2019 brought incredible breakthroughs for artists as many grew in sounds, stories and symphonies.

A Sam Raimi stan and recent graduate who missed UC Berkeley’s film and media commencement ceremony to screen his short film, “Life in Color,” at the Cannes Film Festival.

Yet the more time I spent with the melodramatic heartbreak melodies, I realized there were more than two genres of breakup music.

It’s an album that captures a unique balance of vocals, beats and lyricism — its listener can just ride the waves of its beats and let the lyrics flow.

This video has no story structure, but it has characters, and it absolutely has an emotional narrative, conveyed exquisitely, precisely and at times frustratingly through the most subtle applications of motion, through the most sudden applications of lighting shifts, through distance, through color, through dance.

Studying abroad is a sure-fire way of enriching your college experience and expanding your horizons. Below are some shots of Daily Cal staff members enjoying their own times abroad!