Irezumi Faith Everard September 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film "Will you walk into my parlour?" said a spider to a fly; " 'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy…" "Oh no, no!" said the little fly, "to ask me is in vain, For who goes up your winding stai...
Two-Legged Horse Faith Everard June 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film In the first moment we had never a thought That they were creatures to be owned and used. Among them were some half a dozen colts Dropped in some wilderness of the broken world, Yet new as if they had come ...
The Secret Faith Everard April 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film It’s strange to witness a film so visually bewitching and yet so narratively disorganised. Fūng gip (The Secret, Ann Hui, 1979) is such a film: completely beautiful, dark, and unsettling, yet at times incoheren...
Caesar Must Die Faith Everard February 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film “His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, “This was a man.”” - Anthony, in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. For Vittorio and Paolo T...
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t Faith Everard February 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film The first feminist gesture is to say: “OK, they’re looking at me. But I’m looking at them.” The act of deciding to look, of deciding that the world is not defined by how people see me, but how I see them. ― ...
Heave Ho! Faith Everard November 2023 CTEQ Annotations on Film The rhythmic cogs of the machinery click and shuffle, a steady beat emerges with each press of the tin, each bubble of the milk. A behemoth of industrial power, the milk-cannery seems to twitch and stir as thou...
The Lure (Agnieszka Smoczyńska, 2015) Faith Everard December 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Seven jellyfishes, eight jellybabies, Wanna drown in the water and stay dead for ages. Nine jellyfishes, ten jellyfishes, Give me a boyfriend who isn’t amphibious! - Golden and Silver , The Lure This Polish m...
Tomboy (Céline Sciamma, 2011) Faith Everard September 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film “I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide” - Emily Brontë, Stanzas When the word “tomboy” first came into usage in the mid-16th century, it described a boisterous...
An Exercise in Discipline: Peel (Jane Campion, 1982) Faith Everard September 2017 CTEQ Annotations on Film “This was my first film. I knew these people who all had red hair and were part of the family. They were also alike in character, extreme and stubborn. Their drive in the country begins an intrigue of awesome...