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Civil War 2024
This was a wet dream captured on 35mm film.
Something about seeing the Pennsylvania highways i’ve driven multiple times piled with cars, bodies, chaos… it was eerie. Even the silence between each film photo captured was meant to unsettle the viewer.
Without giving too much away, secession of CA/TX from the U.S. 48 felt possible, imaginable. The director cleverly left bits of the political plot with holes for the viewer to fill; this reliance on the audience’s intelligence to understand the implied context of the film was refreshing.
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Electrical Gaza 2015
I had the privilege of seeing this film alongside Larissa Sansour’s In Vitro, at the Ruskin School of Art’s Palestinian film event where both filmmakers spoke. Both films fit together like a puzzle — the dialogue of Sansour’s dystopia filled in by the rich and lush moving cartoons of Nashashibi’s swirling visuoethnography, while both added the symbol of a black hole swallowing the screen whole, perfectly silent.
Electrical Gaza is a slice of life and the eternal breath of a Gaza we can now only see in the dreams of our elders and the shadows of our countries’ errs.
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Bones and All 2022
Beautiful cinematography throughout. Some bits even felt like a visual ethnography of midwestern America.
Tools such as time distortion, recorded ethnographic interviewing itself (the dad’s cassette tape message), ideas of body horror / the grotesque (what is truly grotesque— the condition itself or the humans who use it for their own horrible pleasures?). I also valued that race was central to this film by virtue of its main character — the casualness of Timothee Chalamet’s character’s treatment of being an…
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American Fiction 2023
Finally — a film that is meta, not for the sake of it, nor for Zuck, nor for a sardonic self-referential script (a la the latest Scream installment…), but for a purpose.
This film was honest and smart, a true depiction of book writing and Hollywood filmmaking, taking us inside the mind of an African American author who is hyper-aware of what the Black zeitgeist and White executives demand. The ending was memorable; taking us not only inside the mind…Translated from by
