Brows Held High

How does the Black Mirror look when viewed against yesterday's futures?

The moving picture is a miraculous invention. It has the potential to show a human being as they lived, long after their death. It’s the closest thing we have to immortality. However, we don’t think enough about who gets to live forever. It’s not about awards. It’s not about quality, about prestige, about box office, or about how much a piece pushes the medium. Sometimes it’s just about who’s being shown. Whose story gets to be told. Because we’ll never know what we’ve already forgotten. A special thanks to Jourdain Searles, without whom I couldn't even attempt to do this film justice.

What can Westworld teach us about the modern media landscape? It's not TV.

Or, as the kids say, A E St H E T iC This one was hard to make.

Or, a vlog about vlogging... and other forms of performance. Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade and Josephine Decker's Madeline's Madeline are both wonderful films and you should see them both any way you can.

A study of human frailty in the face of the ubiquitous need to be creative online for, like, years. So uh, I wanted to experiment with form, content, all that stuff. Bear with me. I'm gonna get pretentious.

Some stray thoughts about big, important speeches.

Filmstricken

A reflection on cinema, self, and other nonsense.