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The Love That Remains and the Limits of Closure
To break the fourth wall which separates the viewer from the fictitious world of a film is to essentially try to reach beyond what is possible within the cinematic framing. To watch a roof collapse from the inside of an empty house is the o...
Transparent Writing: Screenlife and Formalism
Conor’s mug in Albert Birney’s OBEX (Oscilloscope, 2025)
“Thinking is inherently silent.” Says Maddox, the AI Judge played by Rebeca Ferguson in Timur Bekmambetov’s latest Screenlife film Mercy (2026). “Have you hugged your computer today?...
Being Ghosts
fy_pool_day map in Counter Strike 1.6 (Valve 2000)
Their phenomenology requires mediation: a spiritual or technological medium renders them audible, visible. Mediation makes their disappearance visible as appearance, as apparition. Cinema’...
A Suggested New Sports Real
A Rolex ad I saw before watching Superman (James Gunn, 2025) in theaters.
I initially misunderstood André Bazin’s idea of “Total Cinema” to be more enthusiastic; that it meant cinema’s totality-to-be-filled was not its developing failure t...
Put On Your Glasses: Thoughts in 3-D
A viewer orders a dinosaur to get back in the television in a Panasonic ad from the 2010s.
“Don’t just watch a movie, be a part of one.” - Former IMAX slogan.
I remember a professor in film school using Godard’s 3-D title Goodbye to Langu...
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