I've just returned home from watching The Revenant, a film as rough and gruesome as its hero's face. It's a heavy film, weighed down by its subject matter, its setting, and the way it tells its story. This isn't to say that it's bad - its an incredible film, and one that I enjoyed - … Continue reading The Revenant: Artistry and Subtlety
Filmmaking
Tragic Fantasy – A Filmmaker’s Manifesto
In times of hardship, conflict, and change, people will gravitate to escapism. The fantastic is sought out and produced as a cultural painkiller, offering cathartic release, hope, and feelings of agency. However, as escapism is pursued as an alternative to hardship there enters a risk of separation from reality, rejecting the responsibilities of the real … Continue reading Tragic Fantasy – A Filmmaker’s Manifesto
The Cinema of Dreams
In my World Cinema class we've been studying Russian film from the 1920s, specifically Russian montage. Reading the essays of Eisenstein and Vertov started me thinking (as I am apt to do) and I began to wonder about my own theory of film. Obviously I'm not a very experienced filmmaker, but I dabble, and any … Continue reading The Cinema of Dreams
Pen and Screen 