Samantha HadaraExploring Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Short FilmsProgram 1: The Anthem, La Punta, M Hotel, Emerald, Mobile Men, Cactus River, Cinetracts, Footprints, Worldly DesiresNov 10, 2021Nov 10, 2021
Samantha HadaraNot Reconciled: The Avant-Garde Film Production of Straub and HuilletThe films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet mix fiction and non-fiction, adapting existing texts for radical purposes. What centers…Oct 18, 2021Oct 18, 2021
Samantha HadaraLav Diaz From the Festival to the Philippines: Between Global and Local Identities“I’m not hoping to see that day, but I know that my cinema will reach [Filipinos]. I know that they will embrace it one day. It will…Jan 13, 20201Jan 13, 20201
Samantha HadaraPast and Present: Indigenous Presence in the National Film Board of CanadaDocumentary history is historically linked to representation of Indigenous North Americans, and the Western representation of foreigners…Jan 13, 2020Jan 13, 2020
Samantha HadaraCinematic Emptiness and Apichatpong WeerasethakulThe presence of the political is often concealed and found in the margins of the works of Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Despite this…Apr 28, 2019Apr 28, 2019
Samantha HadaraAdventure Time and Narrative ComplexityMy final for my Media Criticism and Theory class. Also the sourcing was with footnotes and I’m too lazy to translate that to over here so…Dec 18, 2018Dec 18, 2018
Samantha HadaraWhy Wynton Marsalis is Wrong About AmericaWritten for my History of Jazz class and based off of the first 20 minutes of this speech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSs87xQ9htsDec 18, 2018Dec 18, 2018
Samantha HadaraMizoguchi’s Fallen Women Didn’t Fall They Were Pushed, by Japanese SocietyReview of the Criterion Collection Eclipse Series 13: Kenji Mizoguchi’s Fallen WomenApr 28, 2018Apr 28, 2018
Samantha HadaraWestworld, Human Nature, and ViolenceIn 2016 Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan premiered their television series Westworld on HBO. Westworld was a new take on the 1973 film of the…Mar 23, 2018Mar 23, 2018
Samantha HadaraMy God, Help Me Survive This Deadly ImageWalter Benjamin interprets that “a work of art has always been reproducible” in his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical…Nov 19, 2017Nov 19, 2017
