Category: cinema
New Media Literacies and the Animation Medium
More than seven years ago, while I was working as a Research Assistant at the Project New Media Literacy at MIT, I co-produced a series of web videos about DJ C...
Embrace of the Serpent / El Abrazo de la Serpiente
The latest film of Ciro Guerra, El Abrazo de la Serpiente/Embrace of the Serpent, is a wonderful piece of cinematic art, full of mystery, beauty, and intimate c...
The Expressiveness of Human-Computer Rotoscoping Technique
Although the rotoscoping technique was invented by the Fleischer brothers back in 1910s when animating Koko the clown for their Out of the Inkwell animated seri...
The Agency of Objects in the Work of Jan Švankmajer
One of my favorite media arts is animation. Although in recent years I have stopped producing content in this format, the medium, its aesthetics, and its langua...
The Transformations of Movie Palaces
Walking the Broadway at Los Angeles downtown turns into an investigation about the ruins of the 20th century entertainment industry. Footprints of movie palaces...
Cinematic Language and Aural Imaginaries
Since the end of the 1980s, exploring the aural dimension of cinematic language has opened a new field of film scholarship. One of the leading figures in this a...