Selected pieces
For a New Cinephilia — a manifesto for a film culture of the future. (Film Quarterly)
Time’s Up for the Male Canon — on auteurism as a “manspreading machine.” (Film Quarterly Quorum)
Indigenous Cinema and the Limits of Auteurism. (Criterion)
A Cinema of Sensation — on Claire Denis’ Beau Travail. (Criterion)
Re-enactment in Non-Fiction Film. (Film Comment)
Rethinking Film Evaluation — on the politics of film evaluation, and how it disadvantages women filmmakers. (Film Quarterly Quorum)
Hidden Histories: The Story of Women Film Editors. (Criterion)
A Flashlight Cinema — on Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher. (Criterion)
The Nomadic Cinephilia of Ruun Nuur. (Framework Journal of Film & Media)
Subjunctive Cinema — on the “cinema of futurity” at IDFA, Amsterdam. (Film Quarterly Quorum)
Conservative Pushback in Film Culture — a response to an editorial in Cineaste against “cancel culture.” (Blog)
No-Home Movie — an essay on Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope. (Criterion)
Dancing on the Ruins — an essay on Olivier Assayas’ Cold Water. (Criterion)
A Double Life — on 100 years of films about the immigrant experience. (Film Comment)
An Authentic Cinema — an essay on Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake. (Criterion)
Behind the Universal — an essay on Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy. (Criterion)
James Gray A-Z — an essay-glossary. (LOLA)
Economics is Emotion — an essay on Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne’s Two Days, One Night. (Criterion)
The Evanescent Moment — a conversation with Jordan Cronk about The New Cinephilia. (Los Angeles Review of Books)
More Writings:
Coronavirus and New Forms of Cinematic Event. (In Media Res)
History and Memory — on Rea Tajiri’s 1991 film. (Club des Femmes)
Women-made Indigenous Cinema from Canada — An annotated media playlist. (St. Andrews Playlist Initiative)
Mouthpiece — on Patricia Rozema’s film. (Cinema Scope)
La La Land and its Discontents — on the film’s critical reception. (Another Gaze)
Vai — on a film made by 8 Pasifika (Pacific Indigenous) women. (#Directed by Women)
Returnings to Life — on the historic and restored North Park Theatre in Buffalo, and a screening of Pather Panchali. (Criterion)
Crisis Cinema — on TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) 2013. (LOLA)
Road Trip — on TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) 2012. (LOLA)
Close Readings — on their importance to the study of film. (The Cine-Files)
A Universe of New Images — on digital cinephilia. (Frames Cinema Journal)
Still Life — part of a collective response to Leos Carax’s Holy Motors. (LOLA)
Four Easy Pieces — on 4 films at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) 2008. (Artforum)