Returning, again, to another present, you think about the fact that, when you first heard this conversation, you had thought about what it might mean, and what your own thoughts might mean about you, all in the course of 30 seconds; even though it took you much longer to write all these thoughts out, and…
From the Projector’s Reel: An Experiment in First to Second Person Pt. 4
You think about the fact that you started writing this, in the evening, because you were feeling ill at ease, and because you hoped that—in putting your thoughts on the page—you would be able to feel better, or at least discover the reason for your anxieties. You had intended to describe a day, but never…
From the Projector’s Reel: An Experiment in First to Second Person Pt. 5
Growing ever-weary at the prospect of writing, you think about the fact that you will never be able to know what people think when they read your work, the fact that you will never be able to know what you will think when you later read your own work, the fact that reading unveils itself…
Love and Fear in Call Me By Your Name
More than just a film about homosexual love, Call Me By Your Name captures the very essence of the human condition...The captivating power of Luca Guadagnino’s tour de force lies in its capacity to rend—from beneath the shroud of artifice, of society, of sexuality—that which is universally human: a bleeding heart.
A Discourse on Transcursion
Transcursion is the desire from which the birthday springs; it is the need to punctuate time into a clearly delineated order, as if this formless medium was a thin membrane that one could puncture—as if time, like a body of water, could be clearly demarcated.