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Sorry, Baby (2025): Film Analysis
Sorry, Baby is a rigorous meditation on trauma, subjectivity, and the unstable aftermath of sexual violence. Rather than reducing trauma to a single event, I argue that the film locates the traumatic in the subject’s…
Read essayMarty Supreme (2026): Film Analysis
A Lacanian reading of Marty Supreme reveals a film structured by obsessional desire, maternal enigma, paternal absence, and the fantasy of total satisfaction. Marty’s pursuit of table-tennis supremacy becomes an Oedipal drama of deferral, humiliation,…
Read essayCinema, Silence, and the Real. Three Events with Peter Jansson in Berlin
This January, I am delighted and honored to host Peter Jansson in Berlin. Over three events, we will explore cinema, psychoanalysis, and philosophy through a shared question. What can film show us when words fail.…
Read postThe Whale (2022): Film Review and Critique
Darren Aronofsky's 2022 film, "The Whale", is a cinematic interpretation of Samuel D. Hunter's stage play of the same name. It delves into the last days in the life of Charlie (played by Brendan Fraser),…
Read essayThe Joker (explained?)
If you haven’t seen Todd Phillips’ The Joker (2019) you’ve probably heard something about it. Here’s a very brief synopsis (semi-spoiler alert): The film recounts the life of Arthur Fleck (played by Joaquin Phoenix), a…
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