Category Archive: food

30 Sep

“Resisting Domestication, or the Reclamation of our Wild Nature.”

“Resisting Domestication, or the Reclamation of our Wild Nature.”

Most of humankind huddles closely together over the dividing line between poverty and self-sufficiency and Josh Zeitlen’s lens stands squarely over that fulcrum.

 
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06 Jun

Being Venus in a Venus Crazed World

Being Venus in a Venus Crazed World

The filmmaker has gradually imposed on his audience a hip cinematic predicament, but it’s not our camera, so we can’t be blamed. We are only watching.Right?

 
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31 May

The Cult of Venus in Motion Pictures

The Cult of Venus in Motion Pictures

Few of her modern adherents still connect with her illustrious lineage. Present day folk place are less superstitious and more literal. She’s morphed from The Morning Star into The Ideal Babe, blown up thirty feet tall at the local movie theater.

 
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13 Dec

Comedy and Tragedy

Comedy and Tragedy

Storytellers utilize comedy and tragedy to perform an ongoing autopsy on the culture. When we talk about comedy and tragedy as different things, we are talking about a singular reality we’ve pried apart for clues. They shed light on our preoccupations, conscious and unconscious.

 
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