On Death Cults and Bordered Utopias: Ari Aster’s Midsommar

Posted on November 6, 2019July 10, 2020 by blindfieldcollective

By Ben Furstenberg and Johanna Isaacson In an election last June, the Social Democratic party in Denmark handily beat the… Read more On Death Cults and Bordered Utopias: Ari Aster’s Midsommar

We Don’t Need Another Zombie-Killing Hero: Political Horror in Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Posted on March 18, 2019March 17, 2020 by blindfieldcollective

By Johanna Isaacson | In the age of dying malls and zombie overkill does George Romero’s much discussed Dawn of the… Read more We Don’t Need Another Zombie-Killing Hero: Political Horror in Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Unseeable Horror in Velvet Buzzsaw

Posted on February 25, 2019May 18, 2019 by blindfieldcollective

“If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.” — Bertolt Brecht [1] By Madeline Lane-McKinley | In the… Read more Unseeable Horror in Velvet Buzzsaw

Saturated Crime: Pope.L’s Reenactor

Posted on November 7, 2018November 9, 2018 by blindfieldcollective

By Rei Terada| i. In Pope.L’s film Reenactor (2012), a continuous loop of almost six hours in its longest version,… Read more Saturated Crime: Pope.L’s Reenactor

Tragedy Girls: The Work of Art in the Age of the Young Girl Blogger Murder Spree

Posted on February 20, 2018April 29, 2019 by blindfieldcollective

By Johanna Isaacson | Tragedy Girls (2017) is a film that follows two best friends who go on a murder… Read more Tragedy Girls: The Work of Art in the Age of the Young Girl Blogger Murder Spree

Turkey in Flames: Genre Film, Memory, and Politics in Kaygı

Posted on July 27, 2017September 16, 2018 by blindfieldcollective

By Kenan Behzat Sharpe | “History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.” – James Joyce, Finnegan’s… Read more Turkey in Flames: Genre Film, Memory, and Politics in Kaygı

Seized Lives Seizing Lives in The Fits

Posted on June 22, 2017September 16, 2019 by blindfieldcollective

By Johanna Isaacson | Towards the end of the film The Fits (2015) we see the protagonist, Toni (Royalty Hightower)… Read more Seized Lives Seizing Lives in The Fits

In/Visibility in Dirty Pretty Things

Posted on January 12, 2017September 26, 2017 by blindfieldcollective

By Aria Alamalhodaei | In 1999, the average person in Great Britain was captured on closed circuit television (CCTV) nearly… Read more In/Visibility in Dirty Pretty Things

Women Acting Out in (Cognitive) Maps to the Stars

Posted on August 16, 2016September 26, 2017 by blindfieldcollective

By Johanna Isaacson | The rise of feminized labor, with its blurred boundaries and emotional demands, leads to new forms… Read more Women Acting Out in (Cognitive) Maps to the Stars

‘Unfriended’ Unpacks Cyber-Sociality

Posted on February 16, 2016September 27, 2017 by blindfieldcollective

By Johanna Isaacson | The film Unfriended (2015) updates the ghost story. A teen bullied into suicide, Laura Barnes, returns to… Read more ‘Unfriended’ Unpacks Cyber-Sociality