How To Survive A Plague

Bunch of videocasette recordings, home movies and news broadcasts put together to depict the protest movement against AIDS, specifically the group ACT UP. I'm always very suspicious of documentary because I always think about what's not being shown, who and what got cut out. Everyone keeps mentioning Iris Long but the film barely interviews her. …

Masks, Music and Memory in Majora’s Mask during the Era of Covid-19

Considering Majora's Mask in the era of Covid-19.

Body Politic: Power and the Body in Akira Kurosawa’s Ran (1985)

"Fine Words, But Words Don't Win Wars."

The Gospel According to Pasolini: Reading Accattone with reference to the Gospel and Dante

"Either I kill the world, or the world kills me!"

Education or Exploitation? Purpose of the 1913 film Traffic in Souls

Figuring out whether Traffic in Souls is documentary or kink.

Animated Atrocities: Illustrating Genocide in Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir (2008)

Discussing the depiction of genocide in Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir and Art Spiegelman's MAUS.

Walking Contradiction: Conflicted Identity in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976)

“He's a poet, he's a picker, he's a prophet, he's a pusher
He's a pilgrim and a preacher, and a problem when he's stoned
He's a walkin' contradiction, partly truth, partly fiction
Takin' ev'ry wrong direction on his lonely way back home.”

Paradise Lost: Revenge for Utopia in Fallout: New Vegas

A story of Apocalypse and Utopia, as told through the narrative structure of a Spaghetti Western.