Hen
HEN merely enables the viewer to take comfort that, although they may not have yet gone vegan, at least they’ve likely never chucked a living chicken off the roof of a building for their art.
All posts by Jessie Krahn
To Our Friends
TO OUR FRIENDS posits some kind of theory about the tectonic shifts our social worlds go through and forwards that theory with documentarian conventions. In attempting to figure themselves out, people are always making it up as they go along, and their relationships may thrive or suffer in the wake of life’s vicissitudes. Wave after wave might strike us, and all we can really do is just keep treading water.
Winter Kept Us Warm & queer love
Some aspects of David Secter’s legacy are likely beneficial to leave behind, but WINTER KEPT US WARM preserves a singular lifeworld in poetic form, bringing the raw and honest tumult of youthful romance into lyrical harmony with all the advantages cinema offers.
Together
TOGETHER makes an ambitious leap towards heady metaphors, but fails to fuse itself to an otherwise exciting and provocative emerging canon in horror cinema.