(“Gay Panic”): On Fan Subtitles
My love for fan-made subtitles started with the Norwegian TV series Skam (2015-2017). Skam is a drama aimed at teenage…
2015
“A Habit of not Talking about the Past” in Eritrean Italy: Documenting a Diaspora
Asmarina (2015), by Alan Maglio and Medhin Paolos, explores the multiplicity of Eritrean migratory experiences and tells the many stories…
Review: Notes to Self by Christina Battle – part of Forum Expanded, Berlinale
“MY ALGORITHMS ARE ALL FUCKED UP” I watch the words of this phrase – printed in an all-caps, blue serif font – slowly vanish…
Wandering across Frames: Moyra Davey and the Feminist Essay Film
In ‘Walking with Nandita’, an essay for documenta 14 composed of photographs and fragments of text, Canadian artist Moyra Davey…
Ordinary Devotion: The Seduction of Normalcy in Chantal Akerman’s ‘No Home Movie’
Chantal Akerman’s final film, No Home Movie, opens with an image of a tree in the Israeli desert, being buffeted…