Beyond Summerisle: Comparing Folk Horror in The Wicker Man and Get Out   Ryan Pham    Howie, the protagonist of The Wicker Man, is vulnerable to a murderous, conspiratorial plot from the film’s opening shots.    For decades, folk horror … Read more

Abuela Layla Peykamian and Ana Hoppert Flores     A sometimes magical, nearly always neorealist narrative short film, Abuela follows Amelia, who has late-stage Alzheimer’s, in her last thirty-six hours in her home, focusing on the interactions she has with … Read more

It’s Your Move A Short Film by Noah Maynard   Artist Statement Noah Maynard   THE OPENING After an unproductive summer of 2022, I was searching for answers that I should have been producing. What is the underlying cause of … Read more

goin thru it. Carly Peck   Artist Statement   Because of my interest in editing, I was fascinated by Sergei Eisenstein’s ideas about how montage and editing can reveal untold stories and new meanings. To explore this concept further, I … Read more

What Is Inside Is Also Outside: The (Un)familiar World of Zama Abigail Burns   Don Diego de Zama (right) inhabits one of many cramped frames, as the interior is sonically besieged by the exterior   Lucretia Martel’s Zama (2017) is … Read more

Sound Builds Its Own World: Auditory Montage in Lucrecia Martel’s Zama Theo Holt    Don Diego de Zama stares beyond the frame’s edge, longing to be liberated from his miserable post   In Zama (Lucrecia Martel, 2017), the titular character … Read more

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