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“Owners of their Faces”: Faciality and The Master

“Owners of their Faces”: Faciality and The Master

Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" has more to do with faciality and Shakespeare's Sonnet 94 than it does with Dianetics.

| December 14, 2012 | No Comments »

A Pentagram for Conjuring Hollis Frampton

A Pentagram for Conjuring Hollis Frampton

Notes taken on the occasion of watching the Criterion Collection's release of "A Hollis Frampton Odyssey"

| September 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »

The 20 Best Films of 2011 (Part Two)

The 20 Best Films of 2011 (Part Two)

Part Two of Hydra Magazine's 20 Best Films of 2011.

| December 30, 2011 | No Comments »

The 20 Best Films of 2011 (Part One)

The 20 Best Films of 2011 (Part One)

Part One of Hydra Magazine's 20 Best Films of 2011.

| December 27, 2011 | No Comments »

Four Paragraphs on Jean Vigo

Four Paragraphs on Jean Vigo

Jean Vigo died at the age of 29. He made a total of four films. Yet his myth sails on.

| November 25, 2011 | No Comments »

The Bare Life of the Turin Horse

The Bare Life of the Turin Horse

From Nietzsche's silence to the bare life of the body: Bela Tarr's final opus is a film of devastating nakedness.

| November 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Orpheus and the Nine Eyes of Google Street View

Orpheus and the Nine Eyes of Google Street View

Jon Rafman's "The Nine Eyes of Google Street View" project unearths the Orphic gaze from its mechanistic slumber.

| August 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »

American Transcendentalism and ‘The Tree of Life’

American Transcendentalism and ‘The Tree of Life’

Terrence Malick's newest film signals a full-on return to American Transcendentalism.

| June 19, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Cities/Architectonics: Mexico City

Cities/Architectonics: Mexico City

A pan-historical meditation on the spectacle of Mexico City. Part one of the Cities/Architectonics series.

| May 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Cine Foundation International & White Meadows

Cine Foundation International & White Meadows

Cine Foundation International entreats us to consider the plight of Iranian filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof.

| February 27, 2011 | No Comments »