by Kip | Jun 6, 2026 | SciFi
The City That Remembers For You: A Love Letter to Dark City There is a thing that happens when you watch a film enough times: it stops being a film and starts being a place. You can close your eyes and walk its streets. You know the way the light falls — or rather,...
by Kip | Apr 16, 2026 | SciFi
Dark City: The Film That Should Have Been Canon There is a particular kind of cinema that arrives too early or too late — films that arrive before their audience has learned to appreciate them, or after the cultural moment that would have embraced them has passed....
by Kip | Apr 4, 2026 | SciFi
The City That Remembers You Wrong: Dark City and the Machinery of Forgetting The first thing you should know about Dark City is that the sun does not rise there. Not once in the entire film. The film was made in 1998, and it exists in a state of permanent dusk — not...
by Kip | Apr 1, 2026 | SciFi
The Name of the Tube: On Brazil, Bureaucracy, and the Architecture of Hell There is a moment in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil — a moment that arrives about forty minutes in, after you have been marinating in the film’s particular flavor of dystopian absurdity —...
