Paths to Gory
Human Centipede 3 is interpretive chum as catharsis
Nostalgia for the Future
Images of Palestine circulate globally as long as they don’t picture return
The End of the World as We Know It
Ancient Apocalypse films use the past to project a reactionary present into the future
Glass Barricades, 1
An unblocked road is not seen, merely driven on.
Shard Cinema, 1
The application of bullet time to all that exists.
Invisible architecture
Despite apparent affinities, cinema's kissing cousin is not TV but the hotel.
The Day After Yesterday, Part 2: The Gathering Storm
In which weatherpersons, like bourgeois political apologists in months of May, are torn apart in the street to yawn vast and gutty.
The Day After Yesterday, Part 1: The Bad Omen
In which an omen, like a dead bird or one that's totally faking it, is witnessed by Ben Affleck.
1/30/13
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All That Glitters Is Not Ash (Sex Olympics and Other Peculiarly Material Things)
The human itself becomes the hostis humani generis, the enemy of all humankind.
Double header
Every film should come in a pairing to reveal its salient differences. Such as height of font. And type of building that is on fire. …
We gather around a hole, and though the fingers are worn to stubs in holding fast through the storm, still, thank God, bloody still the…
& (A film in 13 scenes, scene 11)
We dream of windows all the way down or walls that encircle us to hold lives inside like the guts of a stabbed belly. If they are not pressed close by walls as hands press close we will gush forth.