In Susan Sontag’s seminal essay “Against Interpretation,” she argues for prioritizing the sensuous experience of art over the attempt to determine what it represents. Rather than trying to plumb it for a message or a meaning, Sontag wants us to try and reckon with art’s ability to evoke overwhelming, frightening, unintelligible feeling — to develop... See more

Agnes said, “I’m, like, O.K., what is jealousy? Am I entitled to feel it? Is there something I’m getting right in feeling this way?” Baraz wants to comfort her. “I feel like she’s treating herself as a guinea pig or a case study,” Baraz told me, “and I want to relate to her as a person I care about who is in distress.” But Agnes is impatient with

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Films that scramble the codes and signals of sexuality, wherever that sexuality may fall on the spectrum, are of immense interest to me because it’s a reminder of how each human being is a welter of infinite contradictions. I’m so much more interested in that kind of cinema as opposed to a very programmatic cinema that is interested only in... See more