Why Framing matters in movies

Produced as part of an end-of-the-year series of videos looking back at films released in 2015, this video essay asks: when does the act of framing an image become a political gesture?

This video essay was originally published by Fandor (Keyframe).

The Human, the Machine and Spike Jonze

This video essay explores the similarities between Being John Malkovich (1999) and Her (2013) and asks: what do puppets, robots and artificial intelligences stand for in the world of Spike Jonze?

This video essay was originally published by Fandor (Keyframe).

Peeping Ruth

This video essay explores the gender dynamics behind the acts of looking and being-looked-at in Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947).

Haneke / Dupieux : An Essay on meta-cinema

What do the numerous similarities between the films of Michael Haneke and Quentin Dupieux reveal about their respective filmmaking strategies?

This video was conceived during the writing of a - less playful - unpublished master thesis on Michael Haneke's films that can be read here (in French).

This video essay was originally published on Fandor (Keyframe).

The Identity Thief

This video is an introduction to Rogério Sganzerla's The Bandit of the Red Light. It was inspired by a chapter of an unpublished master thesis about Brazilian Marginal cinema that can be read here (in French).