Tag: film criticism

• // 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…

  TKM

  April 30, 2017

  film, press

  Berfrois, film, film criticism, Gregory Giles, how to survive a plague, if a tree falls, russell bennetts, salt of the earth

• // robots for the end of the world

  Today in Berfrois: New adventures in subverting expository form—the fifth installment in my occasional conversational essay series with Gregory Giles is up. Throwback to everyone’s favorite ’90s environmental cartoon (?), FernGully. Improbably Sentimental Robots; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Babies and Embrace the Apocalypse Also, lucky you if you’ll be in the…

  TKM

  November 3, 2016

  environment, events, film, music, press

  anthropocene, Berfrois, chthulucene, climate change, documentary, ferngully, film criticism, publication, russell bennetts, san francisco, vegan, wall-e

• // elephants wouldn’t wonder

    Today in Berfrois: the fourth conversational essay in my occasional environmental and food justice film series with Gregory Giles. We discuss means vs. ends in animal rights and horror—and whether it’s OK to draw parallels among different kinds of carnage. Elephants Wouldn’t Lie Awake Wondering; or, Cognitive Dissonance and the Carnivore ### Also, ICYMI,…

  TKM

  May 16, 2016

  education, environment, film, lit crit, press

  animal agriculture, animal rights, Berfrois, company town, film criticism, Gregory Giles, horror film, oakland, oakland unified school district, ousd, russell bennetts, tiny houses, vegan