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Afterlives

A feature-length desktop documentary examining how images of violence circulate, mutate, and persist in digital spaces.

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About

I am a filmmaker, media artist, and scholar recognized for pioneering the online video essay and the "desktop documentary" format. Over the past two decades, I have produced nearly 400 video essays exploring new ways of thinking about film, media, and digital images.

Since 2022, I have served as the Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI).

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A quietly kept list

Jonathan Rosenbaum's
1000 Essential Films

Rosenbaum was the most influential critic on my thinking about cinema for the first five years I took film seriously. This is his canon — the list published in Essential Cinema (2004) — annotated and archived here.

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