Ethan Spigland Read Bio Collapse
Ethan Spigland is a professor in the Humanities and Media Studies Department at Pratt Institute. He received an MFA from the Graduate Film Program at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and a maitrîse in Philosophy from the University of Paris VIII under the supervision of Gilles Deleuze and Jean-François Lyotard. Ethan is also an award-winning screenwriter, filmmaker, visual artist, critic, and curator. He completed two short films in collaboration with renowned architect Steven Holl. One of these, Luminosity Porosity, formed part of an installation at the Gallery Ma in Tokyo, Japan. His project, Elevator Moods, was featured in the Sundance Film Festival and South By Southwest, and won a Webby Award in the Broadband Category. His short film, The Strange Case of Balthazar Hyppolite, won the Gold Medal in the Student Academy Awards, and was shortlisted for an Oscar. He writes regularly on film and media for The Brooklyn Rail, Film Comment, and many other publications. He is a contributor to the recently published book Reading with Jean-Luc Godard on Caboose Press.
If I Loved Life, I Wouldn’t Make Movies. Part IV. And Be Careful If Cinema Intervenes: The Film Projects of Groupe Cinéthique
If I Loved Life, I Wouldn’t Make Movies. Parts II and III. The Films of the Scandinavian Situationists; René Viénet and Détournement
If I Loved Life, I Wouldn’t Make Movies. Part I. Guy Debord: In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
US Premiere: Masao Adachi, REVOLUTION +1
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By depicting Yamagami’s motive behind the crime and by having discussions about it, we demonstrated that the nature of the problem in Japan is a political crisis. Violence is neither totally negative nor totally positive, but rather something that should be considered on a case-by-case basis. In the end, I chose to depict the contradictions in their entirety, and let the audience come to their own conclusions.
Landscape Theory Beyond Japan: Jean-Luc Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group
