Introduction Luise Moerke and Jack Seibert February 2023 The Geometry of Movement: Computer-Generated Imagery in Film In Berlin and Los Angeles, the cities where we live, passing a construction site means encountering the promise of an architectural future. Real estate developers announce their spotless visions as digital rend...
Editorial the editors January 2023 Editorial As is customary for the sensible folks at Senses of Cinema, we begin the new year by looking backwards. Our annual World Poll invites authors and audiences to reflect on their cinematic highlights of the previo...
For a Double-Edged Theory: Christian Metz’ Essais sur la signification au cinéma at 50 Abel Muñoz Hénonin January 2023 Book Reviews The problem we face here is self-evident: how to address an unquestionable classic of film theory yet again? At a first glance, it might seem like almost nonsense – its contributions to the field are well as...
When Knowledge Takes Over Action: A Narrative Analysis of Three Georgian Conflict-Sensitive Films: The Other Bank, Tangerines, and Corn Island Khatuna Maisashvili January 2023 Feature Articles Expectations – When and How Culture Would Reflect Conflict’s Traumatic Experience In the late 90s, a persistent question was present within the Georgian media and culture: why were the history and context of c...
World Poll 2022 – Part 7 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 7: Peter Nagels Andy Norton Veton Nurkollari Darragh O’Donoghue Roberto Oggiano Wilfred Okiche Andreea Patru Andrew F Peirce Jesse PercivalAntoni Peris-Grao Andréa Picard Milan Pribis...
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...
Othering Heights: The Queerest of the Queer in Rosa von Praunheim’s City of Lost Souls (1983) Cerise Howard December 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Prolific activist-filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim was born Holger Radtke in Nazi-occupied Latvia in 1942. He rebranded himself “Rosa”, to serve as a constant reminder to others of the pink triangle that gay prison...
To walk away, you gotta leave something behind, or a long story short: Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) Cerise Howard December 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film For all that it contains resonances of queer musical elders – The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975), the Sandra Bernhard vehicle Without You I'm Nothing (John Boskovich, 1990) and, perhaps most of a...