my new notebook "cutscenes" column is an argument against the cutscene itself, proposing - by way of everything from MANIAC MANSION to ELDEN RING - that video game storytelling should be medium-specific and involve more than moving images that suspend the player's control.
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Very special to be part of the upcoming Laura Mulvey Symposium with many esteemed friends! Join us on Saturday 22nd Nov at the BFI for a day of talks — @erikaaaa.bsky.social, @cinemiasma.bsky.social and I will be rounding off the afternoon with a panel on curation and criticism💡
With huge thanks to Laura for the invitation to contribute!! 🩷
Happy publication day to Read Frame Type Film: Or, Written on the Screen, our first ever MUBI Editions title! Please seek out this mammoth, beautiful thing, so carefully thought-out, written, and designed by three brilliant collaborators
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🥒💚 this book has been on my shelf for weeks, a must-read now!
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Really thrilled to have written a booklet essay for this release! 🌾
My top 🔟 of the year for @sightsoundmag.bsky.social
Say hello to MUBI Editions, a new publisher dedicated to cinema and the arts.
I’ve spent the year building this alongside my brilliant colleagues and I’m thrilled the news is out in the world. Our first book, Read Frame Type Film, is available to pre-order now!
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I wrote about the documentary SPACES OF EXCEPTION (showing at Anthology Film Archives), which draws a poignant parallel of solidarity between Palestinian and Indigenous American struggle, for Reverse Shot
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Love love love THE DELINQUENTS and wrote about it for Reverse Shot!
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Thrilled to have been asked by Somerset House to write an accompanying text for their latest Channel commission, May The Fox Take You, by Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen. Film and text online here!
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