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Aftertalking at Bryn Mawr: May ’68 in commercial film
Participating in Bryn Mawr’s Visual Culture Colloquium was a true pleasure! I appreciated the stimulating feedback on my work in progress and reconnecting with Rebecca DeRoo, a fellow hybrid art...
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For Auld Lang Syne
A few nights ago I watched Eberhard Fechner’s sublime and shattering Nachrede auf Klara Heydebreck (60 minutes, 1969). I first heard of the film in the context of its monteuse, Brigitte Kirsche. She...
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Sight and Site I: Oblivion, apocalypse, film and media
This is the first in a series of reflections I’ll post that are related to the undergraduate capstone seminar “Sight and Site in Film and Media” that I am teaching this semester. OBLIVION, Joseph...
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Directory of World Cinema, Belgium: Là-bas (Akerman, 2006)
What a pleasure to receive this publication in my mailbox this week. It was also a pleasure to contribute a number of short-form essays to it. I wrote: an overview of Belgian Surrealist cinema, and of...
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Sight and Site II: Home
This is the second in a series of reflections that evolve from the undergraduate capstone seminar “Sight and Site in Film and Media” that I am teaching this semester. Home (2009) is a film that didn’t...
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Self-portrait of an unknown
I stumbled upon this documentary about Jean Cocteau (dir. Edgardo Cozarinsky, 1985) several months ago, and saved it to my bookmarks. Last weekend I re-discovered the link, and spent part of Tuesday’s...
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Pharrell’s fröhliche Wissenschaft
A couple of weeks ago, I learned through friends on social media that Happy, Pharrell’s latest earworm, had become a sort of current day revolutionary anthem. I reacted with surprise and skepticism....
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His Master’s Voice
A free copy of DOX Magazine that I picked up at this summer’s Flaherty Film Seminar reintroduced me to the work of Nicolas Philibert. I had seen and enjoyed To Be and To Have (2002) without knowing...
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The small fraction of a human that is human
It was a true pleasure to write a short essay for multimedia artist Liz Rodda’s exhibition of Total Body at the Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Texas. You can see the dual-channel piece in LAC’s...
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Interview with Jodie Mack
Image: Jodie Mack at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Photo by Alex Inglizian. Accessed at http://incite-online.net/mack.html What a pleasure it was to interview experimental filmmaker Jodie Mack for the...
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