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Speed and politics
Cinema is movement. Movement is change. Change is politics — politics regulates change. Movement in the frame is thus political. The addition of speed amplifies…
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Teaching film and media in a neoliberal bubble
First point: I am a teacher. This is a role that bestows on me power and control over others. Second point: I am white, male,…
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Welles and the frame
Suffice to say that Orson Welles taught me all I ever needed to know about framing*. Happy 100th, old friend. * for ‘framing’, read ‘all…
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The snake charmer
Film theory via camera operators, this is amazing stuff from Anthony Bourdain’s man behind the lens. Transfixed on this future-past, the operator’s mind is split between…
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Writing
I haven’t written for a very long time. That seems a strange thing to say, given that I bill myself as a ‘writer, producer, and…