Phenomenology and Its Creation and Exploration of Environment in Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy Ana Hoppert Flores Old friends Mark and Kurt drive away from their industrial urban center into the Oregon forests Film scholars have long observed and … 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
An Examination of Time, Medium, and the Moving Image in Chris Marker’s La Jetée Campbell Mah The protagonist of La Jetée is paradoxically caught between the bounds of movement and stasis, and of life and death Chris Marker’s 1962 … Read more
Winner, Best Undergraduate Essay in Film Studies, 2020-21 Intervening Hands: Building Discoursal Legacies of Film Sound with Apocalypse Now and A Man Escaped Liam Bradford Capt. Willard is tormented by his memories of the Vietnam War in the opening scene of … Read more
The Final Girl and Final Boy: Reframing Gender Identities in Alien and Get Out Matthew Gebbia Ripley’s eyes flash with terror as she alone is hunted by the deadly Xenomorph set loose on the Nostromo Genres provide filmmakers … Read more
Horror as a Vehicle: The Terror of Technology in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse Jack Ashby A ghostly figure lurks behind pixelated shadows on Kawashima’s computer monitor display Although horror films have taken various forms throughout cinema history, few have … Read more
Turning the Camera Around to You: The Passenger and Objectivity vs. Subjectivity Charlie Brownlee The final shot of The Passenger, in which Locke (Nicholson) lies in bed as the camera moves past him. The opening scene of Michelangelo Antonioni’s … Read more
Unconventional Space: Queering and Liberation of Spaces in Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Hold Me While I’m Naked Brian Rosenzweig Hélöise and Marianne create a space of intimacy and belonging, however brief it is. We often examine queerness, … Read more
What Makes an Auteur? An Analysis of Abbas Kiarostami’s Close-Up Andrew Tomei Director Abbas Kiarostami speaks to the imprisoned Sabzian. In the pantheon of great filmmakers, several figures have become strongly associated with one particular style. Although filmmaking … Read more
It’s Your Move Noah Maynard Artist Statement 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 my indolence? How do I overcome … Read more
