
CBCM is a space for learning to see, think and write about film more deeply. Through essays, conversations and video lectures, I draw on film studies and cultural criticism to explore how cinema works on the screen, on our senses, and the wider world.
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Ida, Cold War and now Fatherland, demonstrate a filmmaker with a rigourous aesthetic style. It’s an approach that reminds us that true cinema is the shaping of content through form.
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Mechanised Voices and Technological Anxieties in Science-Fiction Cinema
This is an update of a chapter published in 2025 (Cybernetic Imaginations) which accompanied the video essay above.
Personal memory, the politics of the canon, criticism as taste, education and power, the pleasure of discovery, and much more.
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I have to admit that I’ve experienced a questionable amount of pleasure in researching for this episode of The Cinematologists Podcast. When I say “research”, I basically mean that my late evenings I’ve been guiltless ody...
I’ve jumped in the discourse hole, and couldn’t dig me way out.
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Words, written and spoken, on film, culture, art, education, with a philosophical inflection.
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Writing & podcasting about international, cult, and overlooked cinema, often through the lens of boutique physical media. Let’s rewind and revive.
yapper & cinephile, essays on intersection of film & culture
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