Those of us who have been watching Michelle Yeoh with admiration for decades have unearthed the eternal motherlode. A cli-fi masterpiece of nature and power, violence and the sacred. Happy New Year, Earthlings. Swim with me a bit. Hip hop l…
So much of my new year has been spent in my past. Particularly, in Berkeley. Happy New Year, Earthlings. Swim with me a bit. Hip hop legend MF DOOM passed away on a holiday that our superpowers would later converge upon a conference impleme…
February 9, 2022 Morphizm CLI-FI, Film That Matters, Reviews 0 A cli-fi masterpiece of nature and power, violence and the sacred. A Touch of Zen — King Hu’s foundational wuxia influential, now celebrating its 50th year on Earth — teaches us…
Happy New Year, Earthlings. Swim with me a bit. Nearly two decades (and 40 million viewers) after signal boosts from early adopters like yours truly, Adult Swim reboots Harvey Birdman’s postmodern satire for an intersectional epoch. Avatar:…
Happy New Year, Earthlings. Swim with me a bit. On this day, after the one known so well as Christmas, The Beatles beamed a sloppy, surreal cult standout into holiday televisions, confounding many and captivating few. It’s hard to believe t…
September 2, 2021 Morphizm CLI-FI, Film That Matters, MorphToons 0 Hayao Miyazaki has mastered the art of cli-fi. And yet so many of his earlier visions remain out of sight and out of mind. No longer is that the case for his solar punk, Fut…
November 26, 2020 Morphizm CLI-FI, Film That Matters, Interviews, journo, scott thill 0 Matthew Rankin’s first feature film is an electrifying, transgressive expression of cinema, history and crisis, surreally compressing a war-torn century…
September 1, 2020 Morphizm CLI-FI, MorphToons, Reviews 0 A captivating exploration of the forces and flows that cover well over half of our overheating planet, Children of the Sea is essential cli-fi. Out now on digital and disc, director A…
August 14, 2020 Morphizm CLI-FI, Film That Matters, Interviews, journo, MorphToons, Reviews, scott thill, wired 0 The most powerful woman on television is back on television, where she belongs. It’s a bittersweet convergence, as I wrote las…
February 19, 2020 Morphizm CLI-FI, Greenvesting, journo, scott thill 0 The coronavirus has deep roots in climate crisis and breakdown. In a word: Zoonosis. Zoonoses are infectious diseases that fatally strike back after humanity extracts to…
January 28, 2020 Morphizm CLI-FI, MorphToons, Reviews 0 Astounding post-apocalyptic animation with both humor and heart is hard to come by these days, as our burning world exponentially slides deeper into climate crisis. Thank our Mother Ea…
November 18, 2017 Morphizm CLI-FI, Film That Matters, Interviews, journo, MorphToons, scott thill 0 I’ve been reporting on the Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon for years, because I care deeply about art and Earth. So I’ve been looking