the kino gaze
this is my personal corner of the internet for yelling into the void about cinema, music, books everything in between but mostly why Theodor Adorno was totally right about the media (jk). these are some hyperfixated analysis on here, and some unhinged one.
Recent posts
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some notes on closeness (2017)
Closeness, Film dibuka dengan Ilana (Darya Zhovner) mengenakan jaket denim biru yang mencolok. Denim yang menyerap minyak dari sasis mobil berkarat dalam sebuah bengkel mobil, penonton langsung dihadapkan pada realitas materil yang keras di Nalchik, Kaukasus Utara, pada tahun 1998. Bengkel ini adalah bengkel mobil dalam film Closeness (Tesnota), debut penyutradaraan apik yang rilis 2017 silam dari…
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I said what i said until you tell me to rehearse it. A take on Hong Sang-soo's The Day She Returns (2026)
Where do images come from? It might not begin with the camera; instead, it could lie in the space between seeing and remembering. Perhaps they’re coming from behind our eyes, as perception suggests, but maybe they also emerge as a trace of something previously experienced, misinterpreted, and compelled to transform into a form of language. An image is never free of guilt. It comes into being after…
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On Sentimental Value and Bachelard
SPOILER ALERT : This essay discusses the entire plot of ‘Sentimental Value,’ right down to the final scene. I’ve been haunted by a line from the philosopher Gaston Bachelard ever since I saw Joachim Trier’s new film. “The house we were born in,” he wrote, “is physically inscribed in us.” It’s an idea that’s hard to shake. A house it’s a set of “organic habits,” a history that gets written into yo…
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