Articles

Relationships as an aesthetic problem

by Jada Sirkin

If Hollywood's aesthetics is the archetypal mode of interacting, in what other ways can we live and make films? In what other ways can we relate to each other?

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Why is "Mutual appreciation" an important film?

by Jada Sirkin

Narrative doesn't push its characters to feel only one thing, that allows the actor to vibrate.

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The double edge in "Don't look up"

by Jada Sirkin

If the intention was to broadcast a message about ecological emergency, was the polarization good guys-bad guys necessary?

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"Return to Hogwarts" and the absence of darkness in the creative process

by Jada Sirkin

No one, at any point in those ten years working together, felt any minimal amount of contempt? Weren't there any discussions?

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Fiction and judgement: life is a lawyer's movie

by Jada Sirkin

Who could want Nicole Kidman to loose custody of her children in "Big little lies" second season?

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«Fleabag»: live or tell, intelligence and sensitivity

by Jada Sirkin

The very attempt to look smart, clever and funny is what reveals her as vulnerable, needy and broken.

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«The father»: a narrative labyrinth to get to mummy

by Jada Sirkin

If the narrative tries to make us feel what he feels in his moments of confusion, the question is: does it make it happen?

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«Stranger things» and the charming denial of the shadow

by Jada Sirkin

Let's imagine what would happen if all characters were like Dustin and hugged the little monsters.

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«Joker» and «Wild tales»: Narrative technologies for the recycling of social pressure

by Jada Sirkin

How ecological are those stories structured over the search for equilibrium manifested by striking back?

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Degenerated Fiction

by Jada Sirkin

Experiences (the aesthetic ones, the other ones) come to us packaged in what we call genres and sub-genres. The classifying label tells us what to expect, prepares us to laugh or to cry —or to laugh and cry.

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