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New video essay published in Monstrum

I'm very excited to say that I've had a video essay published in Monstrum, a peer-reviewed journal of horror studies. The essay, "We’re All Scrolling Through the World’s Fair", is about We're All Going to the World's Fair, the first film by Jane Schoenbrun, who also directed I Saw the TV Glow. This entire issue consists of video essays exploring queer horror. I'm ...

New (unlisted) video essay & other updates

Hey guys! it's been a minute but I have a new video to share. This weekend, my friend James DeLisio and I participated in a video essay jam—kind of like a game jam but for video essays. Over 48 hours, we collaborated on a pair of video essays exploring the somatosensory and durational experience of several documentaries (and a few narrative films). I took the lead on the video above, and Jame...

[NOTES] Behind-the-scenes on Manhunter

Here's a look at the prep work I did for my essay on voyeurism, identity commodification, and cereal Manhunter. 

As with my video on Christine, the idea for this essay was already brewing when I first watched Manhunter and wrote my little review on Letterboxd. I was so taken with that grocery st...

[NEW VIDEO] How to talk to your son about Hannibal Lecter

I've just posted a new essay on YouTube—it's about Michael Mann's 1986 film Manhunter, the first ever screen adaptation of the book Red Dragon, which originates the character of Hannibal Lecter. I ended up using some longer clips here because I thought it was necessary to illustrate my points, but MGM is not super happy about that, so if this video disappears within the next week, you know wh...

[NEW VIDEO] Keaton & Kaufman

The Internet Archive is holding a video remix contest centered around works that entered the public domain on January 1, 2024. I made this short video montage combining the American film The Cameraman (1928; dir. Buster Keaton & Edward Sedgwick) and the Soviet classic Man with a Movie Camera (1929; dir. Dziga Vertov). I also wrote a little song for the video. 

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More MovieGuide musings

Since I don’t really have any notes to share from my video on MovieGuide’s evangelical take-down of Hereditary, I thought I’d make a quick post here talking about some of the other interesting pages I found that didn’t make it into the video. These might end up in a future video if I ever come back to MovieGuide, but I don’t really have any specific plans for that right now.<...

[NOTES] Behind-the-scenes on Christine

Here's a look at the prep work I did before writing my script about the man/car binary in Christine.

The germ of this script actually came from the Letterboxd review I wrote when I watched it back in January. You can even see I reused the language from that review in a couple places in my s...

Hello & welcome!

Hi all, welcome to my Patreon page. I'm just getting everything set up for now, but if you join up you will get your name in the credits of each new video I post, along with my eternal gratitude. As an exclusive for patrons, I'll also be posting some behind-the-scenes bits like the notes I've used to prepare some past videos, and maybe a look at what's ahead.

I'm aiming to have some addit...