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Published
Constraint-Based
Collaborations
TV Dictionary
Japanese Cinema
Onomichi Project
JWDP Interviews
Film Analysis
J-Horror
Writings
Projects & Collaborations
Teaching
Interviews, Talks, & Screenings
CV
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Eye-Camera-Ninagawa
Published in [in]Transition: Volume 10 • Issue 2 • 2023 Ninagawa Mika’s works are highly referential, each endeavor rife with intertextuality. This video essay deconstructs the opening montage of her 2012 film Helter Skelter into its constituent parts through the organization of visual motifs to visualize Ninagawa’s own relationship to the camera gaze. Creator's Statement
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彼岸花 / Equinox Flower (Warr's Constraint)
Published in [in]Transition, Volume 11 • Issue 3 • 2024 • Special Issue: Women and Aging A study of age and gender on screen, a reflection of our relationship to film history, and a meditation on various forms of editing. Creator's Statement
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家
Published in Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays. Issue 13 – 2024 (1) The story of an experiment in adapting the ideas expressed previously in print scholarship to the audiovisual affordances of the videographic essay. Comprised of two parts bridged by the visualization of text as image, the making of it amplified the potential of editing, of meaning-making through transition, and finding the familiar in what is fundamentally a highly repetitive process. Creator's Statement
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Kūki
Published in MAI: FEMINISM & VISUAL CULTURE. Issue 13: Doing Women’s Global Horror Film History An imaginary discourse between three voices, this essay considers subject positions at the intersections of spectatorship and scholarship. Creator's Statement
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Yakusho Kōji. Screen Stars Dictionary. By Colleen Laird (University of British Columbia)
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