A Brief Response — I had never watched Citizenfour before, but I had heard the stories of Snowden’s betrayal of his position in US national security. Maybe it was because of the bias that I grew up with, but I had prepared myself to dislike the documentary upon watching it for its glorification of…

A Response — Brian Fogel’s Icarus began as an independent project and exposure piece on the pitfalls of dope testing in amateur cycling competitions, but ended as a wild legal story beyond all expectations. In Fogel’s attempt to prove the ineffectivity of athletic drug tests, he meets Russian scientist Grigory Rodchenkov, the head…

This past weekend, I watched Ava DuVernay’s Netflix documentary, “13th”. The film follows experts and advocates, such as professor and activist Melina Abdullah and civil rights leader Angela Davis, as they discuss the origins of the racial disparity in the American prison system, beginning with a loophole in the 13th…

A Quick Response — Netflix’s true crime documentary, Amanda Knox, retrospectively follows the 8-year-long murder case of student Meredith Kercher through interviews with those involved. The documentary, which takes place in Perugia, Italy, is framed as a narrative, and each interviewee acts as an archetypal character: Knox and Sollecito, the young lovers, wrongfully accused…

A Review — Netflix’s documentary American Factory, directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, explores a couple key themes in its narrative, which follows individuals’ stories throughout the process of an economic shift. The most obvious is the cultural clash between American and Chinese industrial culture; the second, less obvious but more important…

Doug Clever: A Murder Mystery — Brian and I worked together on our final for Dgst 101 because it was a continuation of a project we began a few weeks ago, a video game called Doug Clever, a text-based murder mystery coded in Twine. The game takes place in a museum and hotel that are connected…

Maybe it’s clipart animation — For the assignment “What’s Behind Door Number 10101?”, I began by taking a look at my project options. None of the three suggestions particularly appealed to me, but one of the recommendations under the section “Something Else, Almost Anything Else,” stood out: kinetic typography. I’d never tried it before, but…