Critical Writing
Essays
Longer-form arguments about cinema — formal questions, genre currents, and what film says about the present.
The Patience of Slow Cinema
On duration, emptiness, and what happens when a film refuses to fill every second with meaning. Tarr, Hamaguchi, Tsai.
The Long Take as Moral Statement
Why certain directors refuse to cut — Sciamma, Hamaguchi, Cuarón — and what the unbroken shot demands from both sides.
The New European Horror
From The Substance to Titane: what the current wave of body horror and institutional dread is actually afraid of.