Dark Optimism
Chris CassinghamWriting about films on the margins
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Rob Rice on The Suburbs, Paranoid Masculinity, and the Breakdown of Language.
Jack Dylan Grazer (Right) as Zeke in Ponderosa.
I think Rob Rice’s Ponderosa could enter the pantheon of great films about the suburbs. As a setting and political object, they’re endlessly fascinating, full of eerie and truly weird pockets...
Speaking Through Smoke
The sixth edition of Prismatic Ground, a festival of experimental documentary and avant-garde cinema founded by Inney Prakash, begins April 29. I’d be excited for this event regardless, but I’m especially so this year because of one film, I...
Olympic-level Conspiracy
Charlotte Zhang’s docu-fiction of contemporary and prospective Los Angeles, Tycoon, contends with events both real and imagined, intimate and global. In it we follow Lito and Jay (Miguel Padilla-Juarez and Jon Lawrence Reyes), two grifters...
Courtney Stephens on Secondary Perspectives, Emancipation, and Performance in Terra Femme
This Sunday, November 16, Metrograph will host filmmaker Courtney Stephens for a performance/screening of her live film essay/lecture, Terra Femme. Two years ago, while I was living in London, I interviewed her before another of these live...
Lee Anne Schmitt on Family, Conspiracy, and the Olin Foundation
I first encountered Lee Anne Schmitt’s films when I was covering Cinema du Reel for InReview Online. As usual when writing about international festivals, I gravitate towards the American films in the program. Sometimes, they’re strange outl...
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Writer: Filmmaker Magazine, Reverse Shot, Documentary Magazine, In Review Online. Editor: In Review Online, and inreviewonline.substack.com.
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