Seattle and the Snoqualmie Valley, Autumn 2025.
A Different Set of Blueprints
A Quartet in Color
Venice/Ischia/C.T./Rome, Spring 2025
I Know What I Want, and I Hope I Don’t Get It
Nosferatu is wonderful, well-paced, campy when needed, drenched in dread, and quite bold in its depictions of self-destruction, narcissistic helplessness, and the vanity of certainty. Where it really shines, though, is in it's wrestling with want, and what it means to actually get what we ask for.
Fishtank is the Only TV Show
Media about media is usually quite boring, and feels particularly flat when attempting to reflect on the media industry itself. Television seems to offer us an avenue for real reflection, but why are the pieces that do this well those which have the least interest in intentionally reflecting on anything?
Dry Country
Alpine/Marfa, Summer 2024
New Gods
Violence is back at the forefront of our conversations, and that old specter — of war as for war's sake, as something bigger than itself — is floating back into view. But why are we so willing to let it in?
Warming Up
A Grey Spring in 2024
No Atheist in a Sietch
For all their great successes., the Dune films suffer from a reflexive secularism common in modern cinema that makes engaging with its world almost impossible.
Dusk
Days and Nights at the End of the Year
Weeks and Quarters: Bonne Maman Advent Calendar 2023
A year in review through seasons and spreads.
Jitter 