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Screenshot Asia Short Film Focus: Taste of Pomegranate

I’ve been looped in as the Programming Director for “Taste of Pomegranate,” Pittsburgh’s first-ever short film festival dedicated to cinema from South West Asia and North Africa (SWAANA)! Submission fee waivers available, and submission deadline is August 1, 2025. Please spread the word! More details below.

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Korean queer animation in In Media Res

Hi all! Happy to announce that a blog post on Korean queer animation through Flash and YouTube I wrote for In Media Res is now up. For those who know, it’s on “There She Is!!” and “Alien Stage” — very excited to have them both in conversation here. Opening Paragraph: In 2025, South Korea (hereon,…

Digital Aesthetics with Joseph LaDappe

Digital Aesthetics, a Stanford Humanities Center Research Workshop, is back! The first event of the 25-26 year will feature artist-educator-activist Joseph LaDappe, who will present on “Making Politics: Commemoration, Resistance, and Play.” Full abstract and Zoom link below for our online attendees. For our in-person guests — we’ll have dinner! Abstract: Can art be a…

Featured on Variety and Rotten Tomatoes!

A double-whammy this time from over the week-end. Variety drafted an article covering our new Executive Board for GALECA: The Society for LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, and I was included in it as Secretary. I’ve always thought it would be great to have my name in Variety somewhere, but I never imagined it would happen like…

Towards a Ciné-Paleontology: Theories of Digital Cinematography

In commemoration of the recent release Jurassic World: Rebirth, I’m sharing a tidbit of my latest book chapter in Handbuch Medientheorien im 21. Jahrhundert, on “Theories of Digital Cinematography.” (I know, I’m a month late! Forgive me – I was abroad.) In true encyclopedic manner, this article covers theories of digital media in relation to…

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