Author Jonah Jeng

Jonah Jeng

Jonah Jeng is a Ph.D. candidate in the Film and Media Studies program at the University of Pittsburgh. His research concerns cinema's capacity to mediate digital and ecological realities, and his film criticism focuses largely on action cinema, as seen especially in a column on action scenes he started at MUBI Notebook.

Digitality and the Persistence of Realism in Birdman

January 2023

The Geometry of Movement: Computer-Generated Imagery in Film

This article has been peer reviewed. There is a scene in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) in which two characters play a game of “Truth or Dare” while chatti...