I digress.

Readings: Excerpts from Living Matter, by Claire Atherton, and In the Blink of an Eye, by Walter Murch As someone whose default mode of life is to intellectualize everything that goes on around me, I have always secretly admired those unlike me, those who seemed to be “living in the moment,” so to say. I’d always felt somehow locked up in the small space inside my skull, at all times applying a ..

Readings: Excerpts from the The Filmmaker’s Eye, by Gustavo Mercado. I have long wondered which of the two was the case: is it that the spectacles of modern cinema influence and form the way I apprehend the world, or is it actually the other way around, and cinema is always just trying to “catch up” to the way we already perceive reality? I encountered this puzzle one day when I realized that my..