I watched this with someone I consider family, someone I’ve gone through a lot with and loved a lot through. Given how much our relationship has grown, changed, shifted and matured, it’s terribly fitting it was this show in particular she shared with me. Ikuni’s works connect love and revolution, most evidently seen in Revolutionary Girl Utena but that ethos of “the personal is political” similarly runs through Yurikuma Arashi, Sarazanmai, and Mawaru Penguindrum. While each of these incisively comment…

Out of all the things I learned, struggled with, and went through in college, there's a specific moment that changed me the most. It was during my sophomore year when I had failed half my classes from the year before and given one more chance to make it work. I was, of course, depressed and didn't know it, or more accurately I refused to acknowledge it. Acknowledgement meant that there really was something wrong, and that would mean having to…

Armour's particular asymmetry as a landscape film conjures up that pre-Socratic rhuthmos, distinguished from rhythm in the former's aesthetic fluctuation, flowing, the particularities of its form by manner of that form as it takes place as opposed to the latter's adherence to unity and measure once Plato set rhuthmos to rhythm's order. The significance of rhuthmos as it pertains to Aguilar's film is in how Armour breaks away from the conventions of landscape film, and, if I can overstate a…

We can't help but feel like the worst person in the world. Not to our friends necessarily, or our families for that matter, or even to the one(s) we share a bed with, but to ourselves. Decisions we made that we can't really call 'self-destructive', that's not quite it, but destroys our lives anyways. Destroys what we've built the last few years of our lives, and with no idea of how we'll survive after. Why do we do this to…

Kids learn fast when they have to. Kids also don't really get the gravity of situations either. Sometimes a distressing situation is that way to all but kids, who come up with their own solutions with stark simplicity. To them every day is a new one, and so when a truly new day happens it feels like any other. As long as they can make it to the next, that's about as much as it matters.

Nobody Knows refers to…