cinema.
on film and design.
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Nakashima and the Aesthetics of Cruelty
Tetsuya Nakashima constructs beauty the way a torturer constructs a confession.
Wong Kar-wai and the Architecture of Longing
In In the Mood for Love, the frame imprisons the characters.
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Horror and the Female Body
The horror genre has always been a site of contested bodies.
On Slow Cinema
Patience as political act. Tarr, Sokurov, and the ethics of duration.
The Criterion Gaze
Who decides what constitutes the canon? On curation, taste, and the politics of preservation.