Cinema and Video
Where are you, Megan?
“Megan Is Missing” isn’t just a film; it’s a fracture in the facade, a call to rebuild before the next chat pings with doom.
The Films of Tamakichi Anaru as the Extreme Degree of Extreme Cinema
Tamakichi Anaru’s films stand as extreme cinema’s vanishing point: beyond them lies only silence or madness.
Ontological Horror in *The Life and Death of a Porno Gang*
The Life and Death of a Porno Gang* endures as a masterful evocation of ontological horror.
Cinema and Video
The Ontology of the Unreal: Faux-Snuff as a Window onto the Real
This image is not a philosophical argument but an aesthetic experience, a felt encounter with the inhuman
The Abyss Stares Back: Existential Despair, Horror, and Violence in the Cinema of Khavn de la Cruz
Through his transgressive lens, Philippine cinema becomes a universal mirror, compelling us to confront what it means to exist—and to persist—in the face of the void.
Cinema and Video
The Ontology of Horror in Adam Rehmeier’s The Bunny Game and Its Role as Extreme Therapy for Lead Actress Rodleen Getsic
The film endures as avant-garde testament: horror not as escape, but as ontological truth and redemptive rite.
Cinema and Video
The Ontology of Homophobia and Discrimination in Lex Ortega’s Atroz
Atroz is a film that cannot be unseen. It is also a film that, for many, should not be seen. But as a philosophical text, it offers a unique and harrowing ontology of homophobia.