writing
2013
Cineaste v. 38 no. 3 (Summer 2013), “Devotional Cinephilia” (forthcoming)
Millennium Film Journal, “The Couplets of Lewis Klahr” (forthcoming)
Triple Canopy, “Theater of the Universe” (forthcoming)
Film Comment, report on Il Cinema Ritrovato festival (forthcoming)
Film Quarterly, “Walking in the Sand: Interview with Laida Lertxundi” (forthcoming)
Film Quarterly, “Film by Fire," review essay of Olivier Assayas and A Post-May Adolescence: Letter to Alice Debord (forthcoming)
Social Text: Periscope, “Smoke Break: on James Benning's 20 Cigarettes” (forthcoming)
Reverse Shot, “Hide and Seek: The Films of Dani Leventhal” link
The Brooklyn Rail, “From a Dark Room: Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder with Genevieve Yue” link
Film Comment, “Our Nixon Outtakes,” a conversation with Penny Lane and Brian Frye link
Artforum.com, “Nested Forms,” report on the 42nd Rotterdam Film Festival link
Moving Image Source, “Moments of 2012,” reflection on David Gatten's The Extravagant Shadows link
Reverse Shot, Top 10 of 2012 (The Kid with a Bike); 11 Offenses of 2012 (Ruby Sparks); 2 Cents of 2012 (“Most Infantalizing Indie Rom-Com” and “Best New York Times Ratings Explanation Capsule Review”) link link link
2012
The Times Literary Supplement, “Watery Sky,” book review of Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings pdf
The Walker Art Center Magazine, “Films the Color of Blood: On The Renegades” link
Film Comment, “Invisible Cities: Phil Solomon's 'EMPIRE' and Tsai Ming-Liang's Walker at the 16th Views from the Avant-Garde” link
Reverse Shot, “Back to the Beyond,” report on the 16th Views from the Avant-Garde, New York Film Festival link
Reverse Shot, “The Briar and the Rose," review of Wuthering Heights link
Film Comment, “Loose Ends: An Interview with Tony Conrad” link
Waging Nonviolence, “Step Up's Franchised Revolution” link
Reverse Shot, “Blackout," on Todd Haynes's Safe link
Reverse Shot, “All the World's a Stage,” review of Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry link
Film Comment, review of Christian Marclay's The Clock link
Reverse Shot, “Island Record,” review of It's the Earth Not the Moon link
“Hair, Horror, and the Generic Image: Nakata Hideo’s Ringu,” Ecce 3 (Spring 2012)
Cinema Scope 50, “Michael Robinson” link
“Two Sleeping Beauties,” Film Quarterly 65.3 (Spring 2012) link
Reverse Shot, See It Big: The Sound of Music link
LA Weekly, "Lee Anne Schmitt's Last Buffalo Hunt" link
Artforum.com, Critic's Pick: Brian Bress's "Under Performing" link
Reverse Shot, Two Cents of 2011, "Best Prop: The Planet Melancholia" link
2011
Moving Image Source, "Moments of 2011," reflection on Occupy at UC Davis link
Reverse Shot, Best of 2011, review: Nostalgia for the Light link
“David Gatten’s Sympathetic Ink,” exhibition catalogue essay, Wexner Center for the Arts pdf
"Rewound," Joan’s Digest vol. 1 link
Reverse Shot, "Castles in the Sand,” report on the 5th Abu Dhabi Film Festival link
Reverse Shot, "Unstable Images,” report on the 15th Views from the Avant-Garde, New York Film Festival link
Reverse Shot, “Material Girl,” review of My Week with Marilyn link
Reverse Shot, “Fever Dream,” review of Sleeping Sickness link
Reverse Shot, “Let’s Talk about Sex,” review of A Dangerous Method” link
Reverse Shot, “All Together Now,” review of Le Havre link
Reverse Shot, "Forever Young,” On John Hughes’ Curly Sue link
LA Weekly, “Pop Tart: Bonnie McKee, the singer/songwriter behind Katy and Britney’s sugar-coated hits” link
Killing the Buddha, “Malick’s Cosmos, Revisited” link
Senses of Cinema, “Measuring Distance,” report on the 24th Images Film Festival link
Reverse Shot, “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” report on the 3rd Migrating Forms festival link
Mubi/Edinburgh Film Festival, Project: New Cinephilia roundtable response#1 response#2
Reverse Shot, “Garden of the World,” review of The Tree of Life link
Reverse Shot, “In a Lonely Place,” on La Luna and Lost in Translation (Reverse Shot 29) link
Artforum.com, “Pop Up Video: Michael Robinson at the REDCAT” link
Senses of Cinema, “Manners of Speech,” report on the 40th Rotterdam Film Festival link
Killing the Buddha, “Falling Up: Brent Green’s Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then” link
Rabanus Maurus, ora pro nobis, visual poem by Genevieve Yue and Fiona Spring, Lettre Sauvage Editions. Featured in Frequencies 10/12/11, SSRC + Killing the Buddha.
Reverse Shot, “You’ve Been Served,” review of The Housemaid link
indieWIRE: Reverse Shot’s 11 Offenses of 2010, film review: Eat Pray Love link
2010
indieWIRE: Reverse Shot’s Best of 2010, film review: Bluebeard link
Senses of Cinema, “The Curtain’s Undrawn: An Interview with Olivier Assayas” link
“Deadly Desires,” review of Poison Woman: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture, by Christine L. Marran. Discourse 31.3
Reverse Shot, “Now, Voyager,” on Sandra Kogut’s Mutum (Reverse Shot 28) link
Reverse Shot, “Acts of Perception," report on the 14th Views from the Avant-Garde, New York Film Festival link
Moving Image Source, “Empire of Signs: Get Out of the Car and the Living Ruins of Thom Andersen’s Los Angeles” link
Reverse Shot, “That Old Time Religion,” review of The Last Exorcism link
Moving Image Source, “View from the Falls: A Review of the Phil Solomon Retrospective at the National Gallery of Art” link
Reverse Shot, “Whistle a Different Tune,” on The Sound of Music (Reverse Shot 27) link and podcast
Film Comment, review of I Killed My Mother (July/August 2010) link
Reverse Shot, “Combat Fog,” review of Restrepo link
Cinema Scope, review of The Father of My Children (Cinema Scope 43, June 2010)
indieWIRE: Reverse Shot’s Best of 2009, film review: 24 City link
2009
Reverse Shot, “The Light of the Century,” on Syndromes and a Century (Reverse Shot 26) link
“Lost At Sea: Intermedial Encounters in the Films of Janie Geiser,” Grey Room 36 (Summer 2009)
Reverse Shot, “Desert of the ‘Real,’” report on the 13th Views from the Avant-Garde, New York Film Festival link
Reverse Shot, “World Gone Wrong,” review of The Baader Meinhof Complex” link
Reverse Shot, “Phantom Heart,” on Claire Denis’s L’Intrus (Reverse Shot 25) link
Reverse Shot, “California Dreaming: An Interview with Agnès Varda” link
“To A Passerby: The Street and the Cinema in American Film, 1940-1960,” essay commissioned for Street Scene: The Psychological Gesture in Photography, 1940-1960 at the Milwaukee Art Museum (commissioned for publication)
Senses of Cinema, “Frames of Viewing,” report on the 38th Rotterdam Film Festival” link
Film Comment vol. 44 no. 8 (Mar/Apr 2009), film review: Tokyo Sonata
Reverse Shot, film review: Momma’s Man link
Film Comment vol. 44 no. 7 (Jan/Feb 2009), film review: Gomorrah
indieWIRE: Reverse Shot’s Best of 2008, film review: Still Life link
2008
Introduction to an interview with Stan Brakhage conducted by Pip Chodorov, Millennium Film Journal No. 47/48/49 “Brakhage at the Millennium” (abridged version printed in The Brooklyn Rail, “Stan Brakhage with Pip Chodorov”) MFJ link BR link
Reverse Shot, dispatches from the Rotterdam Film Festival dispatch#1 dispatch#2 dispatch#3
Reverse Shot, “Shadows and Outlaws,” report on the 12th Views from the Avant-Garde, New York Film Festival link
Reverse Shot, “The Pale Light of Morning,” review of Let the Right One In link
Reverse Shot, “The Light Outside the Window,” on Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Café Lumière (Reverse Shot 23) link
Negative Sky, artist book from Lettre Sauvage Editions
2002–2007
Senses of Cinema, “Short: As Long as It Takes,” report on the 36th Rotterdam Film Festival link
Reverse Shot, “Change the World: An Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul” link
Senses of Cinema, “Observation in Progress,” report on the 11th Views from the Avant-Garde, New York Film Festival link
Senses of Cinema, “Speaking Through Cinema,” report on the 36th Rotterdam Film Festival link
Contributing passage in Greil Marcus’s The Shape of Things To Come: Prophecy and the American Voice
Beyond Baroque Literary Magazine Vol. 2: “Chickens” and “Wall” (photographs)
Senses of Cinema, “Great Directors: Jonas Mekas” (reprinted in a catalogue for the 2005 Venice Biennale) link
"Anthony McCall," in Hayward Gallery exhibition catalogue for Eyes, Lies and Illusions: The Art of Deception
Beyond Baroque Literary Magazine Vol. 1: “Usher…” (a short story)
Senses of Cinema, “What the Eye Sees,” report on the International Experimental Cinema Exposition link
Senses of Cinema, “The Movies that Make up Our Minds," report on the 35th Rotterdam Film Festival link
Salon.com, contribution to Greil Marcus's Real Life Rock Top Ten, #8 link
Senses of Cinema, “How We Talk About Things,” report on the 32nd Rotterdam Film Festival link
Senses of Cinema, “The Last Picture Show: Film and Video Installation in the Late 60s and Early 70s” link
Senses of Cinema, “Cinema-Tourism,” report on the 4th Annual Bangkok International Film Festival link