Tag: film-philosophy
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‘The Room Next Door’: Pedro Almodóvar’s Dreamlike Meditation on Death
A surreal, dreamlike meditation on life, death, and longing, The Room Next Door sees Almodóvar at his most daring—blurring beauty and absurdity into a hypnotic, cinematic universe unlike anything before.
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Man Ray and Jim Jarmusch’s Cinematic Alchemy
In this analysis, step into a mesmerising world of surrealism and psychedelia as Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan’s SQÜRL redefine Man Ray’s films in 4K for the 100th anniversary of ‘Return to Reason.’ Explore a transcendent cinematic experience like never before!
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mother! (2017): Jungian Analysis
Discover the mesmerizing world of Darren Aronofsky’s ‘mother!’ through a Jungian analysis.
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Screening the 1929 Igbo Women’s War
In this article, I look at the 1929 Igbo Women’s War on screen, and explore a temporally diverse route through the films and ideas that lie within.
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‘EO’ (2022) Film Review: Step into Nonhuman Cinema
In Jerzy Skolimowski’s 2022 film ‘EO’, a mesmerising cinematic transmutation takes us into the perspective of donkeys, challenging our ethics and environmental consciousness.
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‘The Princess Switch’ Analysis: The Netflix Christmas Metaverse, or How Vanessa Hudgens Became a Cyborg
Embrace the enchanting chaos of Christmas as I unveil the ‘The Princess Switch’ analysis, revealing the hidden layers of consumerist abundance and societal contradictions in the most wonderful time of the year.
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‘The Sky Is Everywhere’ (2022): Ointment For My Broken Heart (Personal Review)
This is not going to be an ordinary film review. The purpose of this website is to disrupt the assumption of mainstream film criticism, which presupposes that a film can be “good” or “bad”. Instead, the aim is to focus on – to paraphrase Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s remark about bodies – what a…
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The Erotics of Mud: Cinematic Digging of Matter
In this essay, we attempt to dissolve the myth of an immaterial digital reality by looking closely at two recent films that emphasize the act of digging: Minari (Lee Isaac Chung, 2021, US: A24) and The Dig (Simon Stone, 2021, UK: Netflix). By combining the textual analysis of selected scenes with a film-philosophical framework, drawing…
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MURINA: THE LIQUID WORLD OF DESIRE BEYOND THE HUMAN
In front of our eyes unravels a blue, flickering surface in perpetual movement, highlighted by tranquil yet eerie music. We stand still but the surface moves gently in ebbs and flows, unfolding an array of different shades of blue, from bright to almost completely black. As the image persists we begin to grasp that we…