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Poverty of the Image in AS I WAS MOVING AHEAD OCCASIONALLY I SAW BRIEF GLIMPSES OF BEAUTY

By Connor Angelo Denney January 11, 2023Film

Originally published in June 2016. A personal film in perhaps the most extreme sense of the phrase, Jonas Mekas’s As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)…

Truth and Artificiality in WONDER WHEEL

By Connor Angelo Denney January 11, 2023Film

Originally published in December 2017. Since Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen has ridden a different wave from any other working filmmaker, bridging the wide gap between Hollywood prestige and vulgar auteurism…

Best Albums of 2020

By Connor Angelo Denney January 11, 2023Music

Originally published in January 2021. 50. Florian T M Zeisig – Coatcheck49. Valesuchi – Tragicomic Remixes48. MoMA Ready – Deep Technik47. Rival Consoles – Articulation46. Sex Swing – Type II45. ASC – An Exact Science44. Jeff…

The Comic Monster as a Manifestation of Human Anxieties

By Connor Angelo Denney October 19, 2021Film

Originally written for Visual and Environmental Studies 190 (The Horror Film), taught by Professor Adam Hart at Harvard University in May 2016. Broadly speaking, horror cinema can be seen as…

Cinema as a Tool for Capturing Ephemerality in ALAMAR

By Connor Angelo Denney October 19, 2021Film

Originally written for Visual and Environmental Studies 196d (The Documentary in Latin America), taught by Professor Richard Peña at Harvard University in May 2016. Alamar (Pedro González-Rubio, 2009) begins with a…