What Time is it There? (Tsai Ming-liang, 2001) Jessica Balanzategui May 2023 CTEQ Annotations on Film The turn of the 21st century in Taiwan was marked, as in most countries, by intense fears of the “millennium bug”. This “Y2K” bug would supposedly leave computerised systems incapable of coherently managing dat...
Cage, Nicolas Jessica Balanzategui January 2022 Great Actors b. 7 January 1964, Long Beach, California, United States My first viewing of Mandy (Cosmatos, 2018), one of the films that sparked the late 2010s Nicolas Cage renaissance, occurred under tense yet absurd circu...
The Shining and Us – Participants to the Dossier Reflect on Their First Encounter with Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining Marta Figlerowicz, Alexander Nemerov, Joy McEntee, Christine Lee Gengaro, Geoffrey Cocks, Ian Christopher, Mick Broderick, Jessica Balanzategui, Nathan Abrams, Valerio Sbravatti, Ilaria Franciotti, Rick Warner, Jeremi Szaniawski, Pip Chodorov, Daniel Fairfax and Filippo Ulivieri July 2020 The Shining at 40
The Shining’s Uncanny Children and the Conflicted Nostalgia of Doctor Sleep Jessica Balanzategui July 2020 The Shining at 40 Through the character of Danny Torrance, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining influenced a new model of uncanny child character that has become a key trope of the horror genre since the film’s release in 1980. This ty...
