Film & TV
The Aesthetics of Wealth Inequality
Sometimes richness looks like an opulent mansion, sometimes it looks like a sleek modern home. In these different aesthetic visions of wealth, we get different accounts of its injustices.
Film & TV
Film & TV
The Creative Inconveniences of IMAX
While its popularity is exploding, IMAX is still a cumbersome, disorganized format. Its lack of convenience, though, has become a channel for creativity.
Film & TV
A Touch of Xia Between Blades and Wine Cups
When old swords tell new stories, Wuxia films and chivalrous ideals modernize over time.
Film & TV
We Need More Clay Puppets for Halloween
It’s *this* time of the year again and we’re all excited for another spooktacular Halloween. Spice up your Oct 31st by adding these stop-motion films to your watchlist and revisiting the quirky charm of handmade horrors.
Film & TV
Imperfect Days
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life. And in Perfect Days, feeling good requires risk and active engagement, not just a peaceful routine.
Culture
When "Saturn Returns": Notes on Youth, Netflix, and the Passing Moment
Late 20s, early 30s, a time of reckoning for Gen Z.
Film & TV
The Revolution WILL Be Televised
In lieu of mythologizing, One Battle After Another and Andor focus on organizational commitment and personal sacrifice needed to fuel a revolution.
Animation
Being Beautiful is Too Much Work: Meg Knows It, and So Do Thousands of Teens
Whether it’s the town of Quahog or the very real world of beauty marketing, schools, and social media, young teenagers like Meg are frequently pressured by their surroundings into feeling not enough. Join us for an honest conversation about body image anxiety and how we define “ideal beauty”.
Film & TV
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Stories of revolution have long faced the struggle of delivering a message meant to agitate through a medium designed to satisfy and entertain.
Animation
K-Pop in Animation & Manga, and How It’s Done, Done, Done
From the spotlit fictional stage to the real-life practice rooms and competitions behind the curtains, what do KPop Demon Hunters and Girl Crush each say about the modern K-Pop industry?
Film & TV
Anxiety is the Cinematic Spirit of the 2020s
Artists like Nathan Fielder and Tim Robinson are playing out our social fears on the screen, and the results are equal parts hilarious and disturbing.
Film & TV
Movies Are Better When They Know How to Shut Up
Dialogue is great. We all love dialogue. But when movies let it go, they can ascend to even greater, more distinctly cinematic heights.