Thirty Flights of Loving

Virginia needs to go back to film school

23 Sep 2016 6 min read Review

Every film studies student is forced to watch an infant in a carriage careen down a staircase to its death. They do this because it’s important. The Odessa Steps sequence in Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin (1925) is a Cinema Studies 101-level text in film editing. As a theorist, Eisenstein,

Don’t let Quadrilateral Cowboy slip through your fingers

27 Jul 2016 6 min read Review

When Brendon Chung described Quadrilateral Cowboy to IGN in 2013, he framed it as a departure from his narrative-focused work in Thirty Flights of Loving (2012) and Gravity Bone (2008). “I wanted to go in a very different direction,” he said, “and let the player experiment in a sandbox and figure ou

What does it mean when we call videogames cinematic?

28 Mar 2014 9 min read Article

From Shenmue to Papers, Please, our medium has a thorny history with its older sibling.