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Like many a shoestring, found-footage horror flick, Name the Demon (2024) exists somewhere between genuine boredom and contrived coincidence.
#NameTheDemon #FilmEssay #HorrorMovies #ExorcismFilm #CinemaAnalysis #FoundFootage
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Name the Demon and the Aesthetics of Boredom
Like many a shoestring, found-footage horror flick, Name the Demon (2024) exists somewhere between genuine boredom and contrived coincidence. I’ll buy that due to an increase in both the demand for…
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October 31, 2025 at 9:22 PM Everybody can reply
djaehnig.bsky.social
djaehnig.bsky.social
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Some music never reaches the stage.
My new essay on Hear Us explores a documentary about three musicians divided by borders—and the silence that says what politics can’t.
🎻 Read here: tinyurl.com/2s3kb9wy
#HearUs #RadaHanana #Documentary #ArtAcrossBorders #FilmEssay #ArsMendacium
The Music That Almost Met: On Unfinished Harmony in Hear Us
Some films end with silence because there’s nothing left to say.  Hear Us  begins with it. The quiet between piano keys, the pause before a ...
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October 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM Everybody can reply
sn.at
Salzburger Nachrichten
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Im hochspannenden Filmessay "Girls & Gods" ergründet Femen-Aktivistin Inna Shevchenko …
"Girls & Gods" im Kino: Gott ist immer noch keine Frau
Im hochspannenden Filmessay "Girls & Gods" ergründet Femen-Aktivistin Inna Shevchenko …
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October 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM Everybody can reply
djaehnig.bsky.social
djaehnig.bsky.social
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A forgotten British road movie in stark black & white, soundtracked by Bowie & Kraftwerk. Radio On (1979) isn’t plot—it’s atmosphere, silence, & a country in transition. My essay: tinyurl.com/33jhbybh #FilmEssay #RadioOn #BritishCinema #Sting
Static on the Motorway: Listening to Radio On
It begins in silence and in static. A long stretch of English motorway, black-and-white and endless, spooled across the screen like a half-f...
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October 2, 2025 at 10:11 AM Everybody can reply
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Zwei Abende voller Poesie bei den Wiesbadener Literaturtagen – sensor Magazin – Wiesbaden

https://www.europesays.com/de/456252/

Foto: Libuše Jarcovjáková Wenn sich zehntausende Negative zu einem poetischen Filmessay verdichten und ein Buch über Bier zur…#de #deutschland
Zwei Abende voller Poesie bei den Wiesbadener Literaturtagen - sensor Magazin - Wiesbaden - Deutschland
Foto: Libuše Jarcovjáková
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September 28, 2025 at 6:00 AM Everybody can reply
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VPRO
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45 miljard camera's hebben we met z'n allen, dus beeld is overal. Hoe beïnvloedt dat ons gedrag? Dat is het uitgangspunt van het overrompelende filmessay 'NPO Doc: And The King Said What a Fantastic Machine', vanavond om 23.15 uur op NPO 2 & Start.
Bekijk de documentaire 'And the King said What a Fantastic Machine' op npodoc.nl
Documentaire over de opkomst van de beeldcultuur, van vroeger tot nu. Hoe gaan we om met de constante stroom aan beelden en hoe beïnvloedt dit ons gedrag?
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September 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM Everybody can reply
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djaehnig.bsky.social
djaehnig.bsky.social
@djaehnig.bsky.social
In The Mission (1986), redemption is a sack of armor dragged up a cliff—obvious, yet unforgettable. I wrote on how its images of faith, politics, and sacrifice still resonate.

Read here: tinyurl.com/mwdnz385

#TheMission #FilmEssay #Redemption #Cinema
Burden and Grace: Redemption at the Edge of the Falls
The first time I watched The Mission, I didn’t think about treaties or papal politics. I thought about weight. A man lashed to his own past,...
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September 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM Everybody can reply
lwsrc.bsky.social
flauss
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Wir sprechen über Sigmund #Freud, über den Film „Outsider. Freud“, nachdem wir das dokumentarische Filmessay im Moviemento gesehen haben. Der Film interessiert sich mehr für die inneren Widersprüche, das biografische Einbetten und die visuelle Übersetzbarkeit. eigentlich-podcast.de/egl084-sigmu...
EGL084 Sigmund Freud: seine "Outsider" Biographie im Filmessay
"Ein Ersatz für die Hypnose ist bisher nicht gefunden worden" -- Sigmund Freud, Die endliche und die unendliche Analyse, in: Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, Band 23 (1937), Heft 2, Seite...
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August 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM Everybody can reply
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Ben Woodiwiss
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My 21st video essay, and one of the most difficult in some ways - it's perhaps Ingmar Bergman's most experimental film, The Passion of Anna (1969) 🔥🎥☀️🪓📸

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1mo...

#videoessay #filmessay
A Lesson from The Passion of Anna
YouTube video by Ben Woodiwiss
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July 31, 2025 at 9:49 AM Everybody can reply
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melonfarma.bsky.social
GrayVersesKyle
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I was 8 when I met Ellen Ripley.
My mum introduced me to Alien.
Trauma, terror, and the power of sci-fi horror.

✍️ New essay on Medium

#Alien #SciFiHorror #Motherhood #FilmEssay #MediumWriters
I Was 8 When I First Met Ripley. I Was Already Living Among Monsters.
How Alien showed me I didn’t need to be in space for no one to hear me scream
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July 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM Everybody can reply
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djaehnig.bsky.social
djaehnig.bsky.social
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She wasn’t the “perfect victim”—and that’s why The Accused still matters.
Jodie Foster’s rawest role. A film about violence, silence, and the crowd that clapped.
New essay: tinyurl.com/52ntfcmn
#TheAccused #JodieFoster #FilmEssay
“The Crime You Watched”: Revisiting The Accused in an Era of Performed Outrage
In 1988, a young woman was raped in a bar. On a pinball machine. While men cheered. It wasn’t a headline, though it easily could have been. ...
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July 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM Everybody can reply
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Ben Woodiwiss
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Extract from A Lesson from Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943) 🔪 ☎️ 🪞 🗝️ in praise of 'amateurs'

Full video essay available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHa6...

#MayaDeren #ArtHouse #Cinema #VideoEssay #FilmEssay #Film
July 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM Everybody can reply
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GrayVersesKyle
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#Tarantino #90s #filmessay
His Voice was All Over Every Frame — Why Quentin Tarantino is Still My Movie Hero
You Don’t Compare it to Others
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July 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM Everybody can reply
jprr.bsky.social
JP
@jprr.bsky.social
Sam Levinson’s Malcolm & Marie strips down the toxic cycles of ego, art, race, and codependency in a brutal two-character showdown.
#FilmEssay #MalcolmandMarie #ToxicRelationships #FilmCriticism
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The Tyranny of the Other’s Opinion: How Malcolm & Marie Captures Modern Codependency
I don’t know many people who would enjoy a black-and-white film with a partially diegetic jazz/modern funk soundtrack and featuring only two characters who do nothing but talk for 100 minutes…
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July 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM Everybody can reply
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jprr.bsky.social
JP
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Murnau’s Nosferatu understood horror’s need for myth and closure. Herzog’s 1979 remake traded shadowplay for color, archetype for irony — and bled the story dry.
#HorrorCriticism #FilmEssay #WernerHerzog #Nosferatu #HorrorCinema
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The Wrong Kind of Darkness: Werner Herzog’s Mishandling of Nosferatu
There is a 2024 remake of Nosferatu. I have not watched it because, well, it’s a 2024 remake of Nosferatu. The words alone give me a bad feeling. To be fair, though, Werner Herzog already ruined No…
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July 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM Everybody can reply
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GrayVersesKyle
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🖤 "When the first monster you meet is your mother."

I wrote about trauma, horror, and the twisted comfort I found in Hannibal Lecter.
Read if you’ve ever loved a monster — or been raised by one.

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#Hannibal #FilmEssay #MentalHealth #Horror #TraumaWriting
When The First Monster You Meet is Your Mother
A Life Seen Through the Hannibal Lecter Universe
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July 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM Everybody can reply
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groene.nl
De Groene Amsterdammer
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Filmclub | 'Apple Cider Vinegar' is een hypnotiserend filmessay waarin een niersteen het vertrekpunt is voor een reis langs gesteenten, landschappen en menselijke verhalen. Sofie Benoot verweeft wetenschap, poëzie en politiek tot een mozaïek van beelden.

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July 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM Everybody can reply
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groene.nl
De Groene Amsterdammer
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Filmclub | 'Apple Cider Vinegar' is een hypnotiserend filmessay waarin een niersteen het vertrekpunt is voor een reis langs gesteenten, landschappen en menselijke verhalen. Sofie Benoot verweeft wetenschap, poëzie en politiek tot een mozaïek van beelden.

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July 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM Everybody can reply
groene.nl
De Groene Amsterdammer
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Filmclub | 'Apple Cider Vinegar' is een hypnotiserend filmessay waarin een niersteen het vertrekpunt is voor een reis langs gesteenten, landschappen en menselijke verhalen. Sofie Benoot verweeft wetenschap, poëzie en politiek tot een mozaïek van beelden.

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July 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM Everybody can reply
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groene.nl
De Groene Amsterdammer
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Filmclub | 'Apple Cider Vinegar' is een hypnotiserend filmessay waarin een niersteen het vertrekpunt is voor een reis langs gesteenten, landschappen en menselijke verhalen. Sofie Benoot verweeft wetenschap, poëzie en politiek tot een mozaïek van beelden.

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July 3, 2025 at 7:09 AM Everybody can reply
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De Groene Amsterdammer
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Filmclub | 'Apple Cider Vinegar' is een hypnotiserend filmessay waarin een niersteen het vertrekpunt is voor een reis langs gesteenten, landschappen en menselijke verhalen. Sofie Benoot verweeft wetenschap, poëzie en politiek tot een mozaïek van beelden.

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July 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM Everybody can reply
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artechock.bsky.social
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Exemplarisches Leben? Manuel Stettners Filmessay QRT: Zeichen, Zombie, Teqno – Ein Nekrolog. Und eine Premiere.
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June 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM Everybody can reply
filmfriend.bsky.social
filmfriend
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Vor einem Jahr, am 29.05.24, ist einer der großen europäischen Dokumentarfilmemacher verstorben: Thomas Heise. Sein vielfach ausgezeichnetes Filmessay „Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit“ ist eine sehr persönliche Collage aus Bildern, Tönen, Briefen, Tagebüchern, Notizen, Geräuschen, Stimmen, Fragmenten.
filmfriend - Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit
Anhand von Briefen und Dokumenten untersucht Thomas Heise in diesem monumentalen Werk seine eigene Familiengeschichte über vier Generationen hinweg...
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May 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM Everybody can reply
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Paul Jeremiah Hayes
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I wrote an essay about the film Son of Saul about how the film revises or resists the conventions of the Holocaust film genre. Would love for you to give it a read:

pauljeremiah.substack.com/p/son-of-saul

#filmsky #moviesky #filmessay #essay #filmarticle
Son Of Saul
A New Language of Remembrance: The Cinematic Ethics of Son of Saul
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May 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM Everybody can reply
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Ben Woodiwiss
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In order to prepare for this video essay I turned my phone off for a week, watched Jeanne Dielman on the big screen, and then kept my phone switched off for another week while I thought about it

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#VideoEssay #FilmEssay #Cinema #YouTube #ChantalAkerman
May 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM Everybody can reply
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