Midwest Grotesque
Elijah BiglerExploring visual storytelling from watching to practice.
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Video Game Movies Play Us
Did you like that Minecraft movie?
Maybe that’s an unrelated question since we all saw it, or the 14% of the US population that has played Minecraft definitely saw it. Minecraft taught a generation about mouse motivated cameras, inventory...
Essential Cinema: Melodrama as Exploitation
This is the first in a series on some of my favorite movies and why I think cinema is a unique and beautiful medium full of potential in the contemporary moment. I aim to look to the past to discover if there is any hope for the future.
In...
12 Favorite 2025 Movies
Here is my list:
For structural purposes
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A good movie is always reassuring to see. PTA is a great reassuring presence in filmmaking. He’s a solo Lou Reed album, a reminder of past glories tinged in all of his current successes. One...
Re-Animated: Juvenile Cinema
The Sunday comics page teaches children how stories will be put together. I was lucky enough to be born when Calvin and Hobbes was a part of that syllabus.
Calvin and Hobbes Sunday Page
Bill Watterson used a couple of breaks in comic str...
Blunt Force Soup
I made a movie called “Blunt Force” and I want to talk about it.
Israel Alexander as Cesar
“I made a movie” is already ridiculously reductive. I spent the most time dealing with “Blunt Force” but it wouldn’t exist without the cast and cre...
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Film and other dispatches from Oklahoma and the rest of the Midwest by Elijah Bigler.
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