Tag: film
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// berfrois: the book
Berfrois: The Book is officially out! If you’ll be in PDX for AWP this week, you can get your copy at the bookfair. Gregory Giles and I do our part to insert environmental commentary into everything with a conversational essay on horror films The Last Winter (2006) and The Thaw (2009), the documentary Chasing…
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// bodies in thin air
ICYMI, Greg and I published the sixth conversational essay in our occasional series for Berfrois—this time about valuing property over people, the limits of revenge, and the possibilities of resistance: I don’t think we can maintain our humanity when we dehumanize others, warehouse them, and pay our taxes to agents of the state to…
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// the bottom of lake powell
If you haven’t been following along at home, Greg Giles and I accidentally started an occasional conversational essay series on films with environmental and food justice themes, and Berfrois editor Russell Bennetts has been kind enough to keep publishing it. Russell seems like a good guy. I’ve never met him and have no idea…
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// imperfect yields
Early digital video, the aging feminine, and whether Kerouac got it right—film-obsessed writer/musician Gregory Giles and I published a second conversation in our occasional series on works with environmental and food justice themes. Our Cosmetically Imperfect Yields; or, Agnès Varda’s Loose Grip on Gleaning …
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// double fake-out
Today in Berfrois, a conversation with my partner in crime, writer/musician/film devotee Gregory Giles, on how being cavalier can give rise to meaningful activism: Luc Moullet’s Double Fake-Out; or, Tracking Food Sovereignty in the ’70s ICYMI, I did an interview with Berfrois editor Russell Bennetts earlier this year, and the journal has also published…
Teresa K. Miller, poet and essayist 