Essays & Reviews — Casey Jarrin | writer + artist

ESSAYS & REVIEWS

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Art & Film Essays |
Poetry & Film Reviews

Iconoclasts Oscar Wilde, Nick Cave
Filmmakers Michaelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wong Kar-wai, Wim Wenders, Pawel Pawlikowski, Francis Ford Coppola
Multidisciplinary Artist Alice Maher
Poet Danika Stegeman LeMay
More forthcoming!

“APOCALYPSE NOW Is My Cinema Addiction: Lessons In Physiological Film Experience and Coppola’s Choreography of Death” (Perisphere, October 29 2023)

“IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, Wong Kar-wai’s Silent Dance: Where Image Meets Flesh in Fifteen Frames" (Perisphere, May 2 2023)

“WINGS OF DESIRE Is My Secular Religion: Berlin's Rebel Angels, Peter Falk, and Nick Cave in the Postmodern Muck" (Perisphere, August 31 2021)

"'I call you witness': Danika Stegeman LeMay's PILOT" (Washington Square Review, January 12 2021)

“On the Beautiful Pain of Saying Nothing: Desire, Silence, and Visual Inheritance in Pawlikowski’s COLD WAR and Antonioni’s L’ECLISSE” (Bright Lights Film, October 8 2019)

Cold War lovers, Zula (Joanna Kulig) and Wiktor (Tomasz Kot)

Vittoria (Monica Vitti) and Piero (Alain Delon) in L’Eclisse

“On Pain, Intimacy, and Women Who Want: Yorgos Lanthimos’ THE FAVOURITE, #MeToo, and the Afterglow of Pasolini’s SALO” (Bright Lights Film, March 27 2019)

“Do you have the guts to sit in this chair?: Art, Pain, and Participatory Screens from PERCEPTO to Guantánamo Bay” (KGB Literary Review, September 13 2019)

"Alice Maher's ‘Cell': An Archaeology of the Prison Image" (Eire-Ireland, 43:3-4, Fall/Winter 2008)

“You Have the Right to Refuse Silence: Oscar Wilde's Prison Letters and Tom Clarke's 'Glimpses of an Irish Felon's Prison Life’” (Eire-Ireland, 43:3-4, Fall/Winter 2008)

Poems & Prose