Jun 26, 20185 min readVideodrome: How Technology Warps Our Perception of Reality By Harry Hook ‘Television is reality and reality is less than television’. David Cronenberg’s chilling prophecy rings true 35 years since...
Jun 1, 20189 min readCities of Change: Rome, From Fellini to Sorrentino The city has long been a muse and inspiration for filmmakers, from the dawn of moving image to the present day. Literal symphonies have...
Apr 10, 20189 min readUp in the sky, look! It's a bird... It's a danger... It's Leviathan! How ethically charged cameras plunge into the world of a commercial fishing boat to challenge our perception of man, nature, and the...
Jan 22, 20186 min readOne Frame at a Time: In Praise of Duration in CinemaBy Joseph Gilson Alexander Sokurov, director of the remarkable Russian Ark (2002), the first feature length one-take film, once said,...
Dec 9, 20178 min readSpace Between Worlds: The Inaccessibility of Existence in Wings of Desire and A Ghost StoryBy Joseph Gilson In Wim Wenders’ 1975, Wrong Move, the central fragment of his road movie triptych, Bernhard Landau, the existential...
Nov 16, 20175 min readThe Legend of the Chullachaqui: Constructing Memory in an Image-Obsessed WorldIn reference to Embrace of the Serpent (Guerra, 2015) and The Act of Killing (Oppenheimer, 2013). By Joseph Gilson “Is it my...
