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Katherine Connell

Toronto
As seen in: Another Gaze Journal, CBC Arts, The Globe and Mail, Vulture, Paste, Hyperallergic, Notebook, Reactor, The New Statesman, EIN News, The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, ON) and
writing about film & art | staff @anothergaze | work in Canadian Art, Cinema Scope, Reverse Shot, MUBI Notebook, Hyperallergic, Paste, Vulture etc.
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Peter Strickland's In Fabric: an unsettling horror full of sexual tension

Peter Strickland's In Fabric: an unsettling horror full of sexual tension

The mannequin is a unique cultural object. Beloved by the Surrealists for its uncanny ability to hover betwee…

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The Current Issue - Cineaste Magazine

The Current Issue - Cineaste Magazine

Deconstructing the Filmmaker's Gaze: An Interview with Céline Sciamma by Maria Garcia Citizens with Cameras: …

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Invisible Life (Karim Aïnouz, Brazil)

Invisible Life (Karim Aïnouz, Brazil)

By Katherine Connell Chronicling the life of the legendary Rio de Janeiro drag performer, hustler, and street…

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Writing - Katherine Connell

Writing - Katherine Connell

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The Limits of Self-Representation: A Conversation on Beatrice Gibson's "Plural Dreams of Social L...

The Limits of Self-Representation: A Conversation on Beatrice Gibson's "Plural Dreams of Social L...

I Hope is a twenty-minute-long cinematic ode to Gibson's daughter, Laizer, as well as a double portrait of ic…

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A Haunting: A Review of Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House

A Haunting: A Review of Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House

Reviewed by Katherine Connell Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House (Strange Light, 2019), 264 pp., $24.95…

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2019: Two Cents

2019: Two Cents

Forgive us. We're exhausted. After this decade, and this year especially, and with our Best of the Decade cov…

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The Exuberant, Meditative New Little Women

The Exuberant, Meditative New Little Women

The newest film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, makes a…

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Maya Ben David's Deep Dive into Fan Culture

Maya Ben David's Deep Dive into Fan Culture

Maya Ben David is best known for her pantheon of cosplay characters, particularly the "anthro" plane in Air C…

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Maya Ben David's Deep Dive into Fan Culture

Maya Ben David's Deep Dive into Fan Culture

Maya Ben David is best known for her pantheon of cosplay characters, particularly the "anthro" plane in Air C…

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The Price of Perfection in Alice Waddington's Paradise Hills

The Price of Perfection in Alice Waddington's Paradise Hills

Alice Waddington's first feature film Paradise Hills (2019) begins and ends with the same scene. A golden bal…

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Exploring queer desire in HBO's Succession

Exploring queer desire in HBO's Succession

A show about a powerful American media empire run by patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his adult children, …

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Peter Strickland's In Fabric: an unsettling horror full of sexual tension

Peter Strickland's In Fabric: an unsettling horror full of sexual tension

The mannequin is a unique cultural object. Beloved by the Surrealists for its uncanny ability to hover betwee…

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Candy-Coated Chemical Sublime

Candy-Coated Chemical Sublime

In the first scene of Jasmin Mozaffari's film Firecrackers (2018), Lou's orange hair and oversized tangerine …

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Candy-Coated Chemical Sublime

Candy-Coated Chemical Sublime

In the first scene of Jasmin Mozaffari's film Firecrackers (2018), Lou's orange hair and oversized tangerine …

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Booksmart

Booksmart

There is a missed opportunity by Wilde and the screenwriters to deploy sharper satire that pokes fun at Molly…

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Review: 'Giant Little Ones' Considers the Contradictions of Coming-of-Age with Tenderness

Review: 'Giant Little Ones' Considers the Contradictions of Coming-of-Age with Tenderness

Last year, along with many critics, I was troubled by the camera's evasion of queer sex in Luca Guadagnino's …

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Uncanny Cats

Uncanny Cats

In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat" (1843) a large feline named Pluto follows the narrator "with…

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The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man

Feeling Seen by Katherine Connell The Invisible Man Dir. Leigh Whannell, U.S., Universal The intersections be…

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And Then We Danced (Levan Akin, Sweden/Georgia/France)

And Then We Danced (Levan Akin, Sweden/Georgia/France)

By Katherine Connell From drag performances to ballroom extravaganzas, booming club sequences to solitary swa…

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And Then We Danced (Levan Akin, Sweden/Georgia/France)

And Then We Danced (Levan Akin, Sweden/Georgia/France)

By Katherine Connell From drag performances to ballroom extravaganzas, booming club sequences to solitary swa…

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Trapped in Yonder: An Interview with Lorcan Finnegan

Trapped in Yonder: An Interview with Lorcan Finnegan

Describing weird fiction, writers Ann and Jeff VanderMeer muse that "with unease and temporary abolition of t…

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"You Exist Too Much" Examines Obsessiveness in Queer Stories

"You Exist Too Much" Examines Obsessiveness in Queer Stories

In Zaina Arafat's debut novel You Exist Too Much , released on June 9, the unnamed narrator-a queer Palestini…

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