Kim Ki-young’s Cinema-as-Plague: The ‘Housemaid’ Trilogy’s Domestic Theatre of Cruelty
Images of stairs have been a personal fascination, be it in photography or cinema. To be more precise, I have been drawn to threshold spaces...
To Dreams of Kurosawa; or, Space of Authorship and Homage in Johnnie To’s Throwdown (2004)
Between the last shot of Throwdown and its ending credits, Johnnie To reveals a dedication: ‘A Salute to Akira Kurosawa, the Greatest Filmmaker.’ This video...
Johnnie To’s Shadowplay: A Cinema of Space and Orientation
This video essay is the first in a multipart series on Johnnie To’s ‘nocturnal’ films of the 2000s. Modern-era Hong Kong cinema is about many...
Dance in Wong Kar-wai’s Films
Moments of a film that linger with a spectator long after initial viewing are also the reasons why one returns to that film: to rediscover those moments,...