Category: International
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Porco Rosso (1992) is one of Studio Ghibli’s more unusual films. Despite its lighthearted tone, the titular character’s cynicism towards war and his more traditionally masculine attitude is a far cry from other male protagonists such as Jiro from The Wind Rises (2013) and Howl from Howl’s Moving Castle (2004). That being said, Porco Rosso…
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When it comes to imperialism, it normally boils down to a few images. Tanks rolling over flattened cities. Flames engulfing fertile forests. Soldiers planting down their nation’s flag after they have successfully won a battle. These images almost always accompany a nation’s creation of gendered identity, which is almost always masculine and visible. But there…
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Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental documentary that chronicles an average day in Moscow, from the early morning hours to the carousing at night. There is no plot or written characters; the sole purpose of the film is to demonstrate a number of techniques one can do with a camera, as well as…
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As I was watching La Jetée (1962), I stumbled across an interesting trend; there seemed to be a lot of fetishization of the female character. The film’s formatting seems to mandate this, as instead of using live footage, the film is almost entirely shot with still photos, and this allows the viewer to hyper fixate…
