Fashioning Film’s Fabric: Wearing the Materiality of Peter Strickland’s In Fabric David Evan Richard July 2019 The Analogues of Peter Strickland Making sense of Peter Strickland’s lushly realised In Fabric (2018) is a peculiarly challenging task, one that not necessarily uses the brain, but rather relies on the eye, the ear, and the skin. The film is sp...
Sensorial Experimentation in O is for Orgasm (and Its Spectator) David Evan Richard June 2018 Split/Screen Cattet/Forzani Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani explain that their modus operandi is to tell stories “in a sensual, physical way,” ensuring that they are enjoyed “as an experience” by its spectator. Rather than being concerned...
In the Cut (Jane Campion, 2003) David Evan Richard September 2017 CTEQ Annotations on Film Glossing Jane Campion’s narrative, thematic, and aesthetic interests, Kathleen McHugh writes that in “crafting visual stories drawn from genres that are especially attentive to women’s bodies, to their agency, ...
