Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist (The Nation, June 2024)
On eco-criticism, the environment, and non-anthropocentric cinema.
Interview with filmmaker Lee Chang-dong (Metrograph Journal, April 2024)
On narrative, meaning, and cinematic time.
Artist’s Questionnaire with Eddie Martinez (New York Times, T Magazine, October 2023)
Audio commentary for Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye Dragon Inn (Kino Lorber’s 4K release)
Yunte Huang’s Daughter of the Dragon (Bookforum, Winter 2023)
On a new biography of Anna May Wong.
Liner essay for Park Chan-Wook’s Oldboy (NEON’s 4K release)
Cantopop icon Anita Mui’s enduring style (Metrograph Journal, June 2023)
On fashion, stage personas, and the image-making of a multimedia star.
Letter of Recommendation: Floor Plans (New York Times Magazine, April 2023)
On floor plans and the architecture of memory.
Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up (Film Comment, April 2023)
Todd Field’s TÁR (The Nation, December 2022)
Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave (Artforum, October 2022)
On love lost in translation.
Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger (Criterion, October 2022)
On yuppie vampires and star image.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria (The New York Review of Books, August 2022)
On the materiality of sound and histories of extraction.
The Yellow Woman’s Death in The Toll of the Sea (Feminist Media Histories, April 2022)
Peer-reviewed article on film archival practices, Technicolor, and orientalism.
Jarod Lew’s family portraits (Aperture, January 2022)
On photography, family portraiture and racial trauma.
Takashi Miike’s Audition and Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu (A24, November 2021)
On domestic disharmony in Japanese horror films for A24’s Horror Caviar book.
Gong Li in Wong Kar Wai (Criterion, May 2021)
On performance and secrets.
Pablo Larraín’s Ema (Artforum, August 2021)
On dance, desire, and ambient suspensions.
Christian Petzold’s Undine (Artforum, June 2021)
On cities and myths.
The Films of Women’s Liberation (The New York Review of Books, June 2020)
On documentary filmmaking and 1970s feminism.
Ann Hui’s Song of the Exile (Film Comment, April 2020)
On motherhood, translation, and immigration.
Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow (The Nation, March 2020)
On the fables of Americana.
Joel Meyerowitz’s Provincetown (Bookforum, January 2020)
Chantal Akerman’s My Mother Laughs (CinemaScope, September 2019)