I'm very excited to say that I've had a video essay published in Monstrum, a peer-reviewed journal of horror studies. The essay, "We’re All Scrolling Through the World’s Fair", is about We're All Going to the World's Fair, the first film by Jane Schoenbrun, who also directed...
2025-02-06 15:43:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! it's been a minute but I have a new video to share. This weekend, my friend James DeLisio and I participated in a video essay jam—kind of like a game jam but for video essays. Over 48 hours, we collaborated on a pair of video essays exploring the somatosensory and durational experienc...
2025-01-20 03:07:29 +0000 UTC View Post![[NOTES] Behind-the-scenes on Manhunter](https://img5.doujinstars.com/storage/3/tw/zh/a4542c-019e70c2-162d-749b-b86a-fffd9e28a0dd.png)
Here's a look at the prep work I did for my essay on voyeurism, identity commodification, and cereal Manhunter.
As with my video on Christine, the idea for this essay was already brewing when I first watched Manhunter and wrote my little 2024-02-05 19:52:31 +0000 UTC View Post
![[NEW VIDEO] How to talk to your son about Hannibal Lecter](https://img5.doujinstars.com/storage/12/rt/lg/a4542c-019e70c2-163f-7d58-8944-84635804ae61.jpg)
I've just posted a new essay on YouTube—it's about Michael Mann's 1986 film Manhunter, the first ever screen adaptation of the book Red Dragon, which originates the character of Hannibal Lecter. I ended up using some longer clips here because I thought it was necessary to illustrate my points, ...
2024-01-29 17:57:54 +0000 UTC View Post![[NEW VIDEO] Keaton & Kaufman](https://img5.doujinstars.com/storage/2/ob/xf/a4542c-019e70c2-1641-700b-8fce-30ddd99782c7.jpg)
The Internet Archive is holding a video remix contest centered around works that entered the public domain on January 1, 2024. I made this short video montage combining the American film The Cameraman (1928; dir. Buster Keaton & Edward Sedgwick) and the Soviet classic Man with a ...
2024-01-19 20:13:49 +0000 UTC View PostSince I don’t really have any notes to share from my video on MovieGuide’s evangelical take-down of Hereditary, I thought I’d make a quick post here talking about some of the other interesting pages I found that didn’t make it into the video. These might end up in a future video ...
2023-11-17 04:12:17 +0000 UTC View Post![[NOTES] Behind-the-scenes on Christine](https://img5.doujinstars.com/storage/11/me/xq/a4542c-019e70c2-165f-7a47-bb48-eb84d4c95fa9.png)
Here's a look at the prep work I did before writing my script about the man/car binary in Christine.
The germ of this script actually came from the Letterboxd review I wrote when I watched it...
2023-10-23 02:33:30 +0000 UTC View PostHi all, welcome to my Patreon page. I'm just getting everything set up for now, but if you join up you will get your name in the credits of each new video I post, along with my eternal gratitude. As an exclusive for patrons, I'll also be posting some behind-the-scenes bits like the notes I've use...
2023-09-28 05:58:54 +0000 UTC View Post