* Originally published at Cinética in August 2011, and first translated into English in March 2013. VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS In What is the Contemporary?, Giorgio Agamben points out the discrepancy to one’s historical moment as an essential feature of the truly contemporary person. “But precisely because of this condition, precisely through this disconnection and this anachronism, they are […]
Archives for February 2018
What Now?
On February 23 and 24, NYU will be hosting its annual Cinema Studies Student Conference. As part of the first year PhD cohort, I’ve had the pleasure of helping put this together, alongside fellow first-year students in the PhD, MIAP, MA, and undergraduate programs at the department. The theme of the conference this year is […]
Moonlight (2016), Barry Jenkins; The Human Surge (El Auge del Humano, 2016), Eduardo Williams
* Originally published in April 2017 at Cinética. VERSÃO EM PORTUGUÊS The specific is dead; long live the specific 1. Moonlight is a tripartite story about the life of Chiron, a boy growing up to be a man in a tough neighborhood in sunny Miami. The film is based on an unproduced play beautifully titled […]
Mix #03
Mix #03 – Puzzled by the Sound from Another Day Abstract: The space between earth and air. Beats and rests, dots and bars. Numbing repetition and dizzying variation. The Ramones and Steve Reich. The crystal palace and the cave. Sand and cement. 01 – Do Make Say Think – Bound and Boundless 02 – Clima – […]