Cinema on Cinema: On Harmony Korine’s Mister Lonely

It is not difficult to grasp why cinematic language requires signs that take into account the relation between representation and Continue reading →

New Sci-fi Media, Anti-Hauntology, and the Future of Cinema

Faceshopping: Deconstructed Club and the Queer Futurity In February 2021, after electronic musician SOPHIE’s death, Matt Bluemink wrote a blog Continue reading →

Jonas Mekas’s Cinematic You

This was where the wind blew meI saw youI recorded youI’m not sure I ever understood youI’m just a passerbyFrom Continue reading →

Eternal Action: Christopher Nolan’s Objects of Anti-Accelerationism

In Tenet time is stalled for forever plunder. As a child, I never liked riding on tilt-a-whirls or other spinning Continue reading →

The Metamorphosis and The Lobster: 100 Years of Power and Dehumanization

Reviews of Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2015 film The Lobster seem to be about fifty-fifty on whether they use the term Kafka-esque, Continue reading →

Mad(e) Men: Historicism and History as Told Through Period Drama and TV

In the medium of the movies (what used to be short for moving pictures) there is something called an establishing Continue reading →

Transcendental Cinema: When the Camera Turns Upon Itself

This essay is intended as a series of case studies following the ideas I presented on the “Quixote Sub Specie Continue reading →

On Certainty and Mad Max

“At the end of the world,” our eponymous hero growls in the prologue of George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road, Continue reading →