Originally Written Summer 2019. The following is part one my coverage of Film at Lincoln Center’s 50th Mixtape: Free Double Features series. The common thread between Agnes Varda’s Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) and Jane Campion’s The Portrait of a Lady (1996) is time and freedom. Cleo (Corinne Marchand), feeling trapped by the chanteuse … Continue reading Cleo From 5 to 7 and The Portrait of a Lady
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Golden Eighties: Love in the Age of Material Desire
The following is an old review taken from my archive. Date: September 2017. I fondly recall catching this at Quad Cinema. Chantal Akerman’s films examine the limited spaces in which women must find their freedom in. Take for example Delphine Seyrig in Jeanne Dielman (1975) shifting constantly between the kitchen, bedroom, and dining room, or … Continue reading Golden Eighties: Love in the Age of Material Desire
Shu Lea Cheang’s Radical I.K.U.
The following is an old review I wrote taken from my archive. Date unknown. A soft critique of late-era Capitalism, I.K.U. (appropriately Japanese slang for orgasming), imagines a future world so accelerated in its everyday life that humanity has resorted to cyborgs for collecting the overwhelming amount of information. Inspired by Blade Runner (1982), the cyborgs are known as … Continue reading Shu Lea Cheang’s Radical I.K.U.
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