Tag: film
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Contagion, the Abject and Sociopolitical Power: A Theoretical and Cinematic Study of Disgust
Read more: Contagion, the Abject and Sociopolitical Power: A Theoretical and Cinematic Study of DisgustContent Warning! Milk gone sour, curdling into yellow clots, emanating a sweet, putrid reek. A knot of pale larvae, slick, sticky bodies writhing together, blind mouths chewing and gulping. A spider overturned, legs ticking and curling inward like coarse burnt hair. An exposed wound, sickly warmth pulsating, raw flesh glistening in the light. A splintering…
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Run or Don’t Run: The Modern Age Capitalistic Dilemma
Read more: Run or Don’t Run: The Modern Age Capitalistic DilemmaTime doesn’t make money. Money makes time. We have not been living in the present moment for a long time now. Humanity is constantly drawn out of its current state, into a hyperreality governed by the screens in our pockets, a consciousness displaced into someone else’s life, another country’s environment. We spend hours mindlessly scrolling,…
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Your Ghost Orchid
Read more: Your Ghost Orchid“You are what you love, not what loves you.” The people, ideas and things you love are inherently a part of you, a reflection of your identity. The attraction you feel towards them, the qualities you admire in them, can be traced to the way your mind, heart and soul work. To love is to…
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How to Murder Art Correctly, or, Why Horror Allegories Work.
Read more: How to Murder Art Correctly, or, Why Horror Allegories Work.Vuelo de Brujas, by Francisco Goya The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders The deeper meaning of a text, if not deep enough, swallows the whole text like quicksand, leaving only a brief moment of understanding and no moment of reflection. The events, language, and implications – the surface of narrative – should be…
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Art about Art, Psychopaths About Directors
Read more: Art about Art, Psychopaths About DirectorsArt is said to be an expression of the inexpressible. It is about the things all other human expression cannot be about. But more often than not, what art really is about is making art. While an artist is creating, he might ponder politics, life, or love – but what he most certainly thinks about…
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