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Katherine Connell

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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

New Statesman — The mannequin is a unique cultural object. Beloved by the Surrealists for its uncanny ability to hover between human body and inanimate object, it has been frequently disassembled or redecorated by artists and filmmakers ever since.
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The Current Issue - Cineaste Magazine

The Current Issue - Cineaste Magazine

Cineaste Magazine — Deconstructing the Filmmaker's Gaze: An Interview with Céline Sciamma by Maria Garcia Citizens with Cameras: An Interview with Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar by Gary Crowdus Exploring America's Alternate Queer History: An Interview with Matt Tyrnauer by Matthew Hays Is It Okay to Laugh?: An Interview with Takashi Miike by David Neary Cosa Nostra Crimes and Political Affairs: An Interview with Marco Bellocchio by Gary Crowdus
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Invisible Life (Karim Aïnouz, Brazil)

Invisible Life (Karim Aïnouz, Brazil)

Cinema Scope — By Katherine Connell Chronicling the life of the legendary Rio de Janeiro drag performer, hustler, and street fighter, Madame Satã (2002) announced Karim Aïnouz as a filmmaker attuned to the conceptual richness and subversive potential found within liminal spaces: individuals who fluctuate between seemingly fixed identity categories, and whose fullness of life outside the social hierarchy threatens to destabilize it.
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Writing - Katherine Connell

Writing - Katherine Connell

www.katherineconnell.com —
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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...

Black Flash Magazine — I Hope is a twenty-minute-long cinematic ode to Gibson's daughter, Laizer, as well as a double portrait of iconic poets Myles and CAConrad. More explicitly autobiographical than Deux Soeurs, I Hope interweaves voice-over poetry quotations and reflections on politics alongside footage of Myles and CAConrad and home videos from Gibson's family life.
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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

plenitudemagazine.ca — Reviewed by Katherine Connell Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House (Strange Light, 2019), 264 pp., $24.95. Carmen Maria Machado's In the Dream House is a hybrid memoir that combines the author's personal experience of queer domestic abuse with reflections on genre, literature, film, and identity.
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2019: Two Cents

2019: Two Cents

reverseshot.org — Forgive us. We're exhausted. After this decade, and this year especially, and with our Best of the Decade coverage looming (check back soon!), the thought of pulling together our annual 11 Offenses feature seemed just . . . a bridge too far. More than we could bear.
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The Exuberant, Meditative New Little Women

The Exuberant, Meditative New Little Women

Hyperallergic — The newest film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, makes a nuanced case for the ways stories enrich an individual's experience of the world, and how sharing them is central to one's interpersonal livelihood.
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Maya Ben David's Deep Dive into Fan Culture

Maya Ben David's Deep Dive into Fan Culture

Canadian Art Magazine — Maya Ben David is best known for her pantheon of cosplay characters, particularly the "anthro" plane in Air Canada Gal (2015­-) and the gargoyle-esque red gym bag in Pocket GoodLife (2017-). Mold Maid personifies a piece of bathroom mould as a tender-hearted nanny. Other works puncture the surface of pop culture to reveal its profundities.
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Maya Ben David's Deep Dive into Fan Culture

Maya Ben David's Deep Dive into Fan Culture

Canadian Art Magazine — Maya Ben David is best known for her pantheon of cosplay characters, particularly the "anthro" plane in Air Canada Gal (2015­-) and the gargoyle-esque red gym bag in Pocket GoodLife (2017-). Mold Maid personifies a piece of bathroom mould as a tender-hearted nanny. Other works puncture the surface of pop culture to reveal its profundities.
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The Price of Perfection in Alice Waddington's Paradise Hills

The Price of Perfection in Alice Waddington's Paradise Hills

Tor.com — Alice Waddington's first feature film Paradise Hills (2019) begins and ends with the same scene. A golden ballroom is the setting of the palatial wedding reception for Uma (Emma Roberts) and Son (Arnaud Valois). Uma, who wears blue lipstick, a glitzy gown, and a spherical beaded net over her face, looks like a zombified citizen from the Capitol in The Hunger Games.
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Exploring queer desire in HBO's Succession

Exploring queer desire in HBO's Succession

Little White Lies (magazine) — A show about a powerful American media empire run by patriarch Logan Roy (Brian Cox) and his adult children, Succession is couched in luxe bigness and indulgent, melodramatic dialogue. Such traits amplify an undercurrent of desire in a series already charged with a homoeroticism that flies in multiple, erratic directions, like a bouncy ball thrown from one of the skyscrapers featured in the opening credits.
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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

New Statesman — The mannequin is a unique cultural object. Beloved by the Surrealists for its uncanny ability to hover between human body and inanimate object, it has been frequently disassembled or redecorated by artists and filmmakers ever since.
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Candy-Coated Chemical Sublime

Candy-Coated Chemical Sublime

Canadian Art Magazine — In the first scene of Jasmin Mozaffari's film Firecrackers (2018), Lou's orange hair and oversized tangerine shirt billow as she pummels another girl in a high school parking lot. Her best friend Chantal's face moves in and out of frame as she chants encouragement.
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Candy-Coated Chemical Sublime

Candy-Coated Chemical Sublime

Canadian Art Magazine — In the first scene of Jasmin Mozaffari's film Firecrackers (2018), Lou's orange hair and oversized tangerine shirt billow as she pummels another girl in a high school parking lot. Her best friend Chantal's face moves in and out of frame as she chants encouragement.
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Booksmart

Booksmart

reverseshot.org — There is a missed opportunity by Wilde and the screenwriters to deploy sharper satire that pokes fun at Molly and Amyâs limited outlook as white, woke-ish teenagers. This is too bad, since the whole conceit of Booksmart is that these friends think they know more than they actually do.
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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

reelhoney.com — Last year, along with many critics, I was troubled by the camera's evasion of queer sex in Luca Guadagnino's erotic coming-of-age drama, Call Me By Your Name (2017). This spring, in Keith Behrman's (2018), a similar formal conceit occurs: a hookup between two teenage boys takes place completely under the covers in the dark.
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Uncanny Cats

Uncanny Cats

Notebook — In Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Black Cat" (1843) a large feline named Pluto follows the narrator "with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend." Poe's narrator struggles to put into words how, exactly, this pursuit fills him with terror.
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The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man

reverseshot.org — Feeling Seen by Katherine Connell The Invisible Man Dir. Leigh Whannell, U.S., Universal The intersections between gender and technology have provided rich subject matter for recent films ranging from documentaries to dystopias, as well as fecund ground for contemporary cultural criticism.
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And Then We Danced (Levan Akin, Sweden/Georgia/France)

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

Cinema Scope — By Katherine Connell From drag performances to ballroom extravaganzas, booming club sequences to solitary swaying, queer cinema has often depicted moments of yearning or self-actualization through dance: think, for instance, of the erotic and essayistic function it serves in Isaac Julien's Looking for Langston (1989),Edward and Gaveston's spotlit slow dancing in Derek Jarman's Edward II (1991), the adolescent hero's furious romp through back allies and rooftops in Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot (2000),or the sublime hotel dance party to Rihanna's "Diamonds" in Céline Sciamma's Bande des filles (2014).
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And Then We Danced (Levan Akin, Sweden/Georgia/France)

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

Cinema Scope — By Katherine Connell From drag performances to ballroom extravaganzas, booming club sequences to solitary swaying, queer cinema has often depicted moments of yearning or self-actualization through dance: think, for instance, of the erotic and essayistic function it serves in Isaac Julien's Looking for Langston (1989),Edward and Gaveston's spotlit slow dancing in Derek Jarman's Edward II (1991), the adolescent hero's furious romp through back allies and rooftops in Stephen Daldry's Billy Elliot (2000),or the sublime hotel dance party to Rihanna's "Diamonds" in Céline Sciamma's Bande des filles (2014).
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Trapped in Yonder: An Interview with Lorcan Finnegan

Trapped in Yonder: An Interview with Lorcan Finnegan

Notebook — Describing weird fiction, writers Ann and Jeff VanderMeer muse that "with unease and temporary abolition of the rational, can come the strangely beautiful, intertwined with terror." 1 The weird tale, in all of its conceptual murkiness and eerie liminality, braids together Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan's body of work.
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"You Exist Too Much" Examines Obsessiveness in Queer Stories

"You Exist Too Much" Examines Obsessiveness in Queer Stories

Bitch Media — In Zaina Arafat's debut novel You Exist Too Much , released on June 9, the unnamed narrator-a queer Palestinian American woman-describes romantic love as "the homeland that validated my existence." This is a novel that draws out the ways that love can rupture and reform an existence, while also posing questions about how to love when love has been refused.
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