Texts
Essays and other texts will be posted here. undercurrents commissions new film criticism from writers across the Asia-Pacific region.
"The goals of criticism are different: to respond to what is open, troubling, or self-contradictory in a film, to show why things in it that may not even be immediately noticeable are deeply interesting, to reinvent it, create new metaphors for it, to find more and more of the endlessness of the film (its refusal to finish), to follow it where it leads (with or without its own knowledge and regardless of the intentions of the filmmakers) and take it where it can go, perhaps to what it can open up and invent in other films (including those that may have preceded it)."
Criticism and Film Studies: A Response to David Bordwell, Chris Fujiwara