My first time working on 16mm and far from the last. Premiered last month at the 63rd Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival and at CU Boulder courtesy of Program Council. Not much to say about this one other than that working on it was a breath of fresh air amidst the very rough production of my more ambitious BFA project, which I’m still meditating on and tinkering with but does not resemble my original idea. There’s nothing more liberating than…
“It’s what consumers know. It’s what consumers want.”
Olivier Assayas is a gamer. One of the few films to truly tap into the breathless hyperreality of the internet & its virtual spaces where the power dynamics of our modern corporatized realities have been transplanted for further psychological domination. Every choice is an illusion, every click of the mouse a step closer to enslavement. Pornography as ment and vice versa. That it’s all wrapped up in the glossy, intoxicating surfaces of a…
First this rewatch spurred on a fascinating story from my mom about being pregnant with one of my older sisters while on jury for a civil trial of a drunk driving case, then not even an hour later, while driving back to Boulder to pick up some last things from my old place I got pulled over and threatened by a power-tripping, fragile ego cop speed-trapping in an unmarked vehicle for a truly immersive experience with our justice system lol
benevolent psychopathology beckons towards us
Somewhere between the torment of sex and the ecstasy of death. Twisted metal and cum-soaked fingers across the upholstery. Bloody hairpieces beside their crime scene victims. Steel and flesh. Steam valves & fluid release. Fertilization through destruction. Liberation through mediation. Energy moving throughout the blacktop and its vessels. The body is evolving. Once it moves beyond us what will remain? The modern affliction. That itch you can’t scratch. A void that can never be filled. Not…
I don't say this lightly: this may be the scariest film ever made.
One of my biggest pet peeves since I started getting into movies around 5 years ago has been hearing that damn word over and over again: terrifying.
“He gives a terrifying performance.”
“What a terrifying villain!”
“Did you see that part when that thing happened? Wow! That was terrifying!”
This word is tossed around so often to describe anything the least bit uncomfortable or tense, that it has lost…
