Tips for Digital Loaders, Data Wranglers and DITs
I’m not here to argue what a digital loader, data wrangler, DIT (Digital Imaging Technician) or a post-production data manager does. In fact, there is often […]
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Miscommunication and Art – Subjectivity in Pierrot le Fou
Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le Fou (1965) is a film about miscommunication and subjectivity that illustrates the impossible task of existing simultaneously in ‘the real’ and […]
Much Ado About Nothing
One of Shakespeare’s most popular and enduring plays, filmed in just 12 days, in black and white at the Director’s house on a shoestring budget […]
Sad Baby Wolf’s ‘Electronic Sounds’: Album Review
My heart is a happy one knowing that up and coming bands from New Mexico not only appreciate the sound of vinyl, but the look […]
Album Review: Generationals’ “Heza”.
Another sweet discovery showed up at my door in the form of a funky, neon-dreamsicle colored vinyl album. This, the third installment from New Orleans’ […]
Amores Perros: Moments of Weightlessness
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s film Amores Perros (2000) is a prime example of what Alissa Quart coined “Hyperlink Cinema” (Quart 1). Essentially, a term that refers to […]
A Riddle in Temporality: Hollis Frampton’s Nostalgia
Hollis Frampton’s black and white 16mm film, Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia (1971), takes us on a journey through moving and still image and memory and anticipation: […]
The Walking Dead: Third Season. Once Bitten
As AMC’s The Walking Dead progresses into its third season, the influence of the source material begins to make itself known. So sleep with the […]
Sequence Analysis – Last Yakuza in the Universe
Last Yakuza in the Universe In the opening sequence of Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s Last Life in the Universe (2003) we see Kenji’s (Tadanobu Asano) imagined suicide. […]