• Memoria Review for Filmmaker

    Fireflies Press presents a beautiful collection of research materials from filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

  • DesignInquiry: Futurespective

    Lucy Hitchcock and I try to describe DesignInquiry for Design Observer...

  • Jane Campion's Brilliant Bright Star

    Reflecting on Campion’s lovely tribute to the tension between materiality and mystery, soul and body, practicality and poetry…

  • Touch Me: Tiffany Trenda

    Tiffany Trenda on her Proximity Cinema and other wearable technology artworks.

  • Refik Anadol's Media Architecture

    Media artist Refik Anadol uses massive amounts of data to create artworks.

  • You Are Being Generated

    An essay chronicling the work of media artist David O’Reilly.

  • Revising a Concept: On Expanded Cinema

    An essay on Jonathan Walley’s Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia for Senses of Cinema.

  • What Can Films Teach us About Writing?

    Techniques for writing, based on lessons learned from five extraordinary shorts, for the LA Review of Books.

  • While I'm Still Breathing

    On the handmade, hand-processed erotic short film, While I’m Still Breathing

  • Scratching the Surface: Handmade Film

    An essay for the LA Review of Books on handmade cinema in the digital age.

  • DesertX Catalog Essay Experiment

    Some myths of the desert, in ten words, a name and four dissolves….

  • I Beg to Differ: Creative Nonfiction

    An experiment mixing summer reflections and a set of perfect clichés, published by Muse/A Journal…

  • What Will You Let Yourself Know?

    Review essay on guides to writing by Alexander Chee and Jenny Boully…

  • A Review of Post-Cinema for Afterimage

    The nineteen essays in this collection offer a portrait of post-cinema, understood very broadly…

  • Practice-based Design Research

    A review of Laurene Vaughan’s collection of essays on design research for Dialectic.

  • Writing Images and the Cinematic Humanities

    Several films and videos present examples of the cinematic humanities.