Film

Deleuze, Cinema and Belief: The Restoration of a Lost World

A podcast of my recent talk on Deleuze, Rossellini and the politics of belief is available here. In this paper I argue that Ci

Kleist: A Short Photo-Roman – Coming Soon

For me Hitchcock’s Vertigo contains one of the most extraordinary examinations of obsessive desire associated with the m

Scottie proceeds to follow Madeleine into the chapel, fearing that she is about to kill herself. After Madeleine has fallen to

There are two sequences which take place at the old Spanish Mission at San Juan Batista which is located 40 miles south of San

Scottie follows Madeleine to San Francisco Bay at the spectacular Fort Point, location of the Golden Gate Bridge. This is the

I recently visited San Francisco in pursuit of my obsession with Hitchcock’s Vertigo. I spent two weeks methodically vis

Chris Marker observes, in a remarkably lucid essay on Hitchcock’s greatest film, that the vertigo dealt with in the film is

Photographs seem to haunt our imagination and our relationship to the world, offering as they do a persistent material presenc