By: Chris Rossi

Escalante gives no “out” for the audience, no ironic distance.

By: Matthew Battles

A bestiary of cinematic technologies.

By: Matthew Battles

A short film of beauty & buried assumptions.

By: Peggy Nelson

An economic critique wrapped in a mystery inside a comedy.

By: Peggy Nelson

Writing about writing about film.

By: Peggy Nelson

Ozu, quantification, and creative reuse.

By: Matthew Battles

The collision of story, spectacle, and catastrophe.

By: Edrie

The Apocalypse Will Be Televised

By: Peggy Nelson

Don’t you love it when the first thing everyone asks you about your work is, “isn’t that illegal?” [The Cones Project, a performance art/virtual maps mashup, Peggy Nelson, 2009] Craig Baldwin is a scavenger, collagist, […]

By: Peggy Nelson

‘Tis the season when we look down from the mediascape onto Bedford Falls. Not for the usual reason. We’re not waiting on any wings. But we are due to be promoted, to consciousness that is; […]

By: Peggy Nelson

Like one of my HiLo Heroes, Jean-Luc Godard (profiled previously on HiLobrow), I came to film through criticism. I started writing about it in San Francisco after one Saturday when I discovered Other Cinema, a […]