A FILM CANON

Note: Originally written for The Cooper Point Journal. Norman Mailer, as bypassed as he’s become by the passage of time and the...

(dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011) Note: Originally written for the course Temporality: Image And Text, Spring Quarter, taught at The...

(dir. Agnes Varda, 1980) Note: Originally written for the course "Temporality: Image And Text", Spring Quarter of 2022, at The Evergreen...

(dir. Jia Zhangke, 2006) Note: Originally written for the course Temporality: Word And Image at The Evergreen State College. At the very...

Steven Soderbergh’s newest film, 2022’s Kimi, is a kind of spiritual descendant from his acclaimed 2008 film, Contagion. The similarities...

(2004, dir. William Basinski) In Disintegration Loop 1.1, William Basinski pulls you into a dream, a mundane and yet surreal verite...

9/10 (2020, dir. Jasmila Žbaníc) Quo Vadis, Aida? is a piercing meditation on the nature of cultural and historical trauma as seen...