Earwig

2021

★★★★ Watched

Like glass and ice - translucent, fragile, reflective, sharp around the edges. Tastes like blood in my mouth.

Nope

2022

★★★★½ Watched

I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, So I can
Watch you weave then breathe your story lines
And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, So I can
Keep track of the visions in my eyes

Long Day's Journey into Night

2018

★★★★½ Watched

The difference between a movie and memory is that movies are always false. In a movie one scene follows after another. But memories mix truth and lies. They appear and vanish before our eyes.

This, similarly to Kaili Blues, captures the opacity of memory and dream, diffracted through the cinematic in unique poetic gestures. The multiple objects and subjects which appear and disappear to appear again in a different place don't have fixed meaning. The apple, the lost lover, the…

Crosscurrent

2016

★★★★½ Watched

Eerie, contemplative, poetic, haunting and haunted. Echoes of Zhangke's 'Still Life', the Yangtze river as living memory.

Waiting for Happiness

2002

★★★★½ Watched

Beautifully composed, very calm and tender. The commentary on migration crystalized in movement through space runs like a subtle electric undercurrent through the network of characters whose crossing strings form a free flowing pattern.

Kaili Blues

2015

★★★★½ Watched

All memories are contained in similar days
The spiders of my heart try to emulate the way humans decorate their homes

And Then We Danced

2019

★★★★★ Watched

This cured my post-breakup depression.

Around the World When You Were My Age

2018

★★★★★ Watched

Turning 25 this year calls up a lot of fears and anxieties around getting older and using my time on earth the right way. I guess this is what they call a quarter life crisis. I know it's kind of ridiculous and i'm still practically a baby but that doesn't stop the occasional dread from seeping in.

This movie, narrated by an old man, describing his travels around the world at a time when he was 5 years older than…

Tongues Untied

1989

★★★★★ Watched

Raw, poetic, as relevant as ever, go watch it if you can.

Solange - When I Get Home

2019

★★★★★ Watched

Fucking visionary.

still/here

2001

★★★★★ Watched

Every single still frame radiates so much life and energy. The granular surface vibrating like microbes. Long dead objects, ruins of memorized lives filled to the brim with time and history, shaped by every single drop of rain water. In dust specks floating into a bright nimbus, filigree leaves breaking through a splintered roof one catches small glimpses of beauty.

Wuthering Heights

2011

★★★★½ Watched

This more than anything conveys the texture of the Wuthering Heights, perpetual fall, veils of fog, cold wetness and burning flames. Feral and raw. Rough heather, coarse windswept cheeks, sharp thistles, licking wounds, running and running and running. Animals, wet eyes and woolly fur, insects, spiders, plants, rotten fruit, moss and bark growing in the interstices of the human stories so small against the vast landscape. Dirt and blood.