As part of Deep Focus’s “Fashion in Film” series, I’ll be speaking about The Virgin Suicides via Zoom on June 3. You can register for free here: https://www.deepfocusfilm.org/series#fashion
Apple’s Vision Pro
I’ve recently published an article on Apple’s “vision” for its latest product. It extends the argument I made in “Apple ‘Porn’: Design Videos as Seduction and Exploitation” to consider the corporation’s filmed representation of its augmented reality headset. I contend that Apple’s latest narratives further relegate human work and community to the margins by presenting human experience as thoroughly mediated by computer-enhanced simulation, its pinnacle achieved through its Apple Vision Pro headset that turns the home and workspace into one immersive audiovisual world. Rather than its devices and software becoming an inseparable part of our personal and shared spaces, they become the spaces. We no longer live with the technology, we live in it, with occasional reminders of the other humans who share our spaces, interactions that are themselves mediated through simulations. In other words, this is Apple “Porn” 2.0.
“Apple ‘Porn’ 2.0: Apple’s Vision (Pro),” Class, Race and Corporate Power 11.2 (2023)
Apple ‘Porn’ 2.0
I recently published an update on Apple’s design videos focused on its newest product announcement for the Vision Pro headset:
“Apple ‘Porn’ 2.0: Apple’s Vision (Pro),” Class, Race and Corporate Power 11.2 (2023)
The Oscar Project Podcast
I had the pleasure of speaking with Jonathan Ytreberg at The Oscar Project about Coppola’s Lost in Translation. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts by clicking here.
Book club event
I’m honored that Interabang Books in Dallas, Texas chose my BFI Film Classics book on Lost in Translation to kick off its new BFI Film Classics Book Club!
Podcast
I had the pleasure of speaking with Latoya Johnson on the New Books Network about my BFI Film Classic’s book on Lost in Translation. Listen to our discussion here or find the episode wherever you get your podcasts.
Review
Total Film, April 2023
4/5 stars
“Sharp on the movie-wise banter between Bob and Charlotte, she’s equally sensitive to the film’s unspoken, unresolved feelings: in Ferriss’ reading, Lost unfolds like a pop song, its fragments charged with lingering feeling.”
Kevin Harley
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Special Event
Join contributors to The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sofia Coppola for a celebration of Coppola’s achievements on the big screen and beyond!
Thursday, 2 February 2023, 17:00 – 18:30 GMT
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Reviews
Read Cassie Pontone’s review of The Cinema of Sofia Coppola in the Dec. 2022 issue of Film Criticism
The text is thought provoking for fans of Coppola’s work and casual viewers alike.