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May 29
“If we were to take up these parts, Strafer seems to ask, what would still shock us, and what would cease to?”
My first column for @FilmmakerMag, on Jordan Strafer's TALK SHOW at the @whitneymuseum Biennial.
Many thanks to @celizotte & @nataliakeogan!
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If all writing about cruise ships is a form of impersonation, Tavakoli shows us that’s not such a bad thing
May 5
Not to perpetuate the I Went on a Cruise Ship thing but I did briefly sail to the Bahamas with a bunch of celebrity impersonators nplusonemag.com/issue-53/ess…
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Apr 16
“The chase finally ends at the cemetery—the world’s oldest theme park.”
On bloodsuckers and bullshitters, for the booklet of @radujude’s DRACULA, out from @12specialfilms and @VinegarSyndrome
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Apr 16
“Welshness manifested around me as a quality both bone-deep and lightly worn.” Henry Rees-Sheridan on eisteddfods, Plaid Cymru, and the “still here”-ness of a people.
In our new issue, Henry Rees-Sheridan considers the uncertain future of Welsh identity, Welsh politics, and the Welsh language.
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Mar 13
“He thinks, not for the first time, that he has chosen his profession poorly.”
On the early Soviet silents of Boris Barnet, some of which play this weekend at @Metrograph.
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As @metrograph begins its Boris Barnet retrospective today, we have decided to make the first issue of Outskirts—with its extensive dossier of translations and texts on Barnet's films—available for free as a downloadable PDF.
Go to outskirtsmag.com/shop to download directly.
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Feb 10
Come for my cameo as a pilgrim with terrible German accent; stay for a profound exegesis of the first book in English published by a woman, who was at the time legally dead and living in the walls of a church.
Well well well, look whose incredibly weird DIY medieval masterpiece got itself a distribution deal!! filmmakermagazine.com/133253…
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Jan 11
"[Lav] Diaz made only one take of each shot through his fixed frame, and each set-up is calibrated to convey a single idea. The result is a bracing semantic economy..."
Revisit Maxwell Paparella (@44getting) on MAGELLAN: mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-…
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Jawni is brilliant. Can’t wait to read more of her.
Friends, oomfs, and followers! I’m launching a Substack called Pour-over Film, where I’ll be periodically publishing original writing and translation, mostly focusing on Korean cinema and film culture in Korea. Here’s a short intro:
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27 Dec 2025
For @mubinotebook, I contributed supplemental reporting from the picket lines of @nycalamounited’s strike, with amazing photographs by @eleanorpetry. mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/r…
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29 Dec 2025
Meant to credit the lion’s share of this reporting to the always excellent @fauxbeatpoet, of course!
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27 Dec 2025
For @mubinotebook, I wrote a dispatch from the third edition of @filmfestknox, a festival dedicated to American regional cinema set in the shadow of old World’s Fair architecture. mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/n…
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27 Dec 2025
Thanks, always, to my editors, readers, and friends. Looking forward to much more in the new year♥️
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