It is a beautiful thing when one’s impression of a film changes—from the lingering thoughts of the hours that follow to the days that continue, and alter, the thinking. This happened to me with Jordan Peele’s new film Us. It...
I've seen many films based on novels that I've read. But I decided I'd take a shot at the reverse by reading Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey. It's not only for fun, it's research of sorts for an...
CHIANG MAI. As much as I try to fight it, because it seems such a simplistic, convenient and contained worldview, I do subscribe to the aquarium theory of existence. This suggests that the limitations of reality (from consciousness to the...
VIRGINIA BEACH. A little over a year ago, my friend in Chiang Mai, Zachary Stockill, invited me to be a guest on a new podcast he was developing. His previous podcast, "Travels in Music," is excellent and he is such...
GALWAY. I’m sitting in a pub called Brogan’s. Or “Brogan’s Music Bar,” or, by the name out front, “Ol’55.” It was recommended to me as a place for music by a friend I trust. Ireland has a pub on every corner....
KILLARNEY. I came to Europe for the Film Philosophy conference in Gothenburg, but the trip is being bookended on either side by Berlin (to reconnect with dear friends and colleagues) and Ireland (for holiday, a place that has called to me...
ZHUHAI. I'm very pleased to announce the release of my book Terrence Malick's Unseeing Cinema: Memory, Time and Audibility for Palgrave-Macmillan. This has been such an incredibly long project that sustained me though an amazing six years, beginning with my...
ZHUHAI. I work from the idea that we are all involved and implicated in the same ambient matrix that is comprised of various relations of movement, thought and activity. Life works its way through actual events that emerge and fade,...
CHIANG MAI. It's too bad the Colin Kaepernick story is only playing out in sports media, because to me it's a huge story about contemporary America that should be getting much more attention. His situation is Black Lives Matter colliding...
CHIANG MAI. In my last entry I wrote about my appreciation for the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. A few people asked me how to begin reading him and that spurred me to write up this entry. Keep in mind this is a...