Imagining the World of Tomorrow
In the latest episode of The Artist in American History (season three), Darren considers the role of science fiction writers and filmmakers as they frame the problems of today through imagined worlds in the future. In particular, this episode focuses upon the recent film Chappie and the ways in which it uses the coming ...
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The Artist in American History – A Podcast About Art, Gender, Class, and Race in America
The Artist in American History is a podcast series which explores class, race, and gender in American through the lens of the artist. This series includes lectures on topics such as race in comic books, gender in Disney movies, and the ways in which modern society is reflected in the fiction we love to ...
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Pop Culture Reviews
In between producing my first feature length documentary and creating content for The Artist in American History podcast series I like to look at new and old films, music, art, and literature. In these reviews and retrospectives, I look at the themes and ideas from a variety of perspectives. I cannot ...
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Over the Rainbow – Why Looking for Charlie is Black and White
When production started on Looking for Charlie back in March we (naively) devoted little thought to how the finished film might use colour. Of course we put a lot of effort into trying to capture images that were as vibrant and consistent as possible but big questions remained. Would the finished film ...
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Looking For Charlie – Teaser Trailer
Introducing: Looking for Charlie (+ Teaser Trailer) - Click Play to View When we think about the most important comedians of the early twentieth century a list of familiar names come to mind – Laurel & Hardy, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and, of course, master of them all, Charlie Chaplin. Their images are ...
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The Interview – Review (It’s all in the Context)
Circumstances and context can make even the most asinine, rote film much more important than the sum of its parts. That's not to say that one should not try to separate art from the larger narrative, that one should not try to understand and appreciate it purely on its own terms, but to place a work in its true context, ...
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Pink Floyd – Endless Monotony (Endless River Review)
Pink Floyd’s The Endless River is not a meaningful album. Stripped of almost any attempt to engage lyrically, the record falls back upon a series of intriguing but largely uninteresting instrumental tracks which never feel like they justify the decision to keep voices off of the album. That isn’t to say that The ...
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