Interviews
2023
Director Interview: Liza Mandelup on Caterpillar. Sloan Science & Film. 2023.
Director Interview: Matt Johnson on Blackberry. Sloan Science & Film. 2023.
Nuclear Feelings: Irene Lusztig on Richland. Sloan Science & Film. 2023.
Being the Protagonist: Penny Lane on Confessions of a Good Samaritan. Sloan Science & Film. 2023.
Director Interview: Natalie Cubides-Brady on The Veiled City, Berlinale Coverage. Sloan Science & Film. 2023.
Director Interview: Sam Green on 32 Sounds. Sloan Science & Film. 2023.
Director Interview: Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV. Sloan Science & Film. 2023.
Sanaz Sohrabi on Scenes of Extraction, Sundance Coverage. Sloan Science & Film. 2023.
King Coal Director Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Sundance Coverage. Sloan Science & Film. 2023.
Made By Human: Sophie Barthes on The Pod Generation. Sloan Science & Film. 2023.
2022
Dorothy Fortenberry on Climate Storytelling. Sloan Science & Film. 2022.
Iuli Gerbase on The Pink Cloud. Sloan Science & Film. 2022.
2021
Director Interview: The Velvet Queen. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Francesca Panetta and Halsey Burgund on Deepfakes, New MoMI Exhibition. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Michael Bilandic’s COVID Comedy: Project Space 13. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Showrunner and Producer Kelly Souders on The Hot Zone: Anthrax. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
A Race to the Bottom: Shannon Walsh on The Gig is Up. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Climate Refugees: Newtok, Director Interview. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Liz Garbus on Becoming Cousteau. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Gaspar Noé on Vortex. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Haig Aivazian on All of Your Stars Are but Dust on My Shoes. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Maria Schrader’s I’m Your Man: Dan Stevens on Being a Robot. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
A COVID Counternarrative: Nanfu Wang on In the Same Breath. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Hayley Garrigus on You Can’t Kill Meme. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Science in Sci Fi: Writer Ian Shorr. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Interview with Cherien Dabis: What the Eyes Don’t See. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Director Interview: Drew Xanthopoulos on Fathom. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Director Interview: Jessica Kingdon’s Ascension. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
To Go Where No One Has Gone: Titanic Explorer Bob Ballard. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
The Girlfriend Experience: AI Advisor and Director Interview. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Someone not Something: Victor Kossakovsky on Gunda. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
New Horror Film Honeydew, Interview with Director Devereux Milburn. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg on We Are as Gods. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
New Film About Lewis H. Latimer. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Sundance Interview: Playing with Sharks Director Sally Aitken. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Sundance Sloan Winner Son of Monarchs: Interview with Alexis Gambis. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Science and Technology’s Grand Promises: Interview with Filmmaker Noah Hutton. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
2020
Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian Discuss Their New Thriller Run. Sloan Science & Film. 2020.
Tim Heidecker Talks Moonbase 8. Sloan Science & Film. 2020.
Sally Ride and TFNGs. Sloan Science & Film. 2020.
Director Interview: My Octopus Teacher. Sloan Science & Film. 2020.
Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal: Art Director Scott Wills. Sloan Science & Film. 2020.
NYFF Interview: Directors Juan David González Monroy and Anja Dornieden on Her Name Was Europa. Sloan Science & Film. 2020.
Interview With Latif Nasser, Host of Netflix’s Connected. Sloan Science & Film. 2020.
Away From Earth: Interview With Producer Jeff Rafner. Sloan Science & Film. 2020.
Writer Ed Solomon and physics advisor Spiros Michalakis on Bill and Ted Face the Music. Sloan Science & Film. 2020.
Carpe Diem? Amy Seimetz on She Dies Tomorrow. Sloan Science & Film. 2020.
Disaster, Recovery, and Resistance: Cecilia Aldarondo on Landfall. Sloan Science & Film. 2020.
Sisters with Transistors: Women Pioneers of Electronic Music. Sloan Science & Film. 2020.
Filmmaker Ira Goryainova On Hot Docs Selection Bile. Sloan Science & Film. 2020.
Hysterical Girl: Kate Novack on Freud and “Me Too.” Sloan Science & Film, 2020.
An Experiment in Social Isolation: Red Heaven. Sloan Science & Film, 2020.
A New Film Tells the Story of Alice Ball, Chemist and Inventor of a Treatment for Leprosy.” Massive Science, 2020.
A Model For the Future: Matt Wolf’s Spaceship Earth. Sloan Science & Film, 2020.
Pigeons and Geniuses: Michael Almereyda Discusses Tesla. Sloan Science & Film, 2020.
Algae and Fungi Meet Film. Sloan Science & Film, 2020.
Experimental Film Inspirations for Ad Astra. Sloan Science & Film, 2019.
2019
Whistling as Code in The Whistlers. Sloan Science & Film, 2019.
Directors Juliano Dornelles & Kleber Filho on Bacurau. Sloan Science & Film, 2019.
The Decline Of Lobotomies: Rick Alverson On The Mountain. Sloan Science & Film, 2019.
The Consequences Of One Child Nation. Sloan Science & Film, 2019.
Tom Jennings and Mike Massimino on the 17 Apollo Missions. Sloan Science & Film, 2019.
“The Sex Raft” of 1973. Sloan Science & Film, 2019.
Director Liza Mandelup On Jawline. Sloan Science & Film, 2019.
Puppet Play Chimpanzee, Based on True Events. Sloan Science & Film, 2019.
Black Magic Sex Cult Meets Rocket Science On Strange Angel. Sloan Science & Film, 2019.
2018
Maxim Pozdorovkin On The Truth About Killer Robots. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Claire Denis’s Science Consultant Talks About High Life. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Arachnophobe Pets Spider In Lana Wilson’s A Cure For Fear. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Play About “Father of Modern Gynecology.” Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Marianna Simnett’s Work “Blood In My Milk” at the New Museum. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Behind-the-Scenes of AMC’s The Terror. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
A Conversation With Joan Jonas, Moving Off The Land. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Penny Lane On The Pain Of Others. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
The Burden: Niki Lindroth von Bahr. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Ghostbox Cowboy: Filmmaker John Maringouin. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Ric Burns Discusses Oliver Sacks: His Own Life. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Biodiversity in The Ancient Woods of Lithuania. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
False Truths: The Atomic Cafe Seen Today. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Livestreaming’s Gig Economy: People’s Republic of Desire. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
“Art in the Age of the Internet”: Curator Eva Respini. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Science As Power: Interview with Playwright Lucy Kirkwood. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Sundance-Sloan Winner Searching: Aneesh Chaganty & Sev Ohanian. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Don Hertzfeldt on World of Tomorrow Episode Two. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Lynn Hershman Leeson on Vertigo, DNA, and Tilda Swinton. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
2017
Interview with Shaheen Shariff about Hate on Social Media. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
Eugènia Balcells’s Frequencies. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
The Conversation: Susan Landau on Surveillance Technology. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
Interview with Blade Runner Writer Hampton Fancher. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
It Glows: Interview with Nitrate Vault Head George Willeman. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
Robot Friends: Interview with Dr. Selma Sabanovic on Her. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
Computer Surveillance: Dr. Sheila Jasanoff on Alphaville. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
Minute Bodies: Interview with Stuart Staples. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
Vavilov Seed Bank: Interview with Jessica Oreck. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
Bombshell: Interview with Richard Rhodes on Hedy Lamarr. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Interview with Dr. Hameed. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
THX 1138: Interview with Dr. David Anderson. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
Soylent Green is People: Interview with Dr. Andrew Bell. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
NASA’s Chief Historian Bill Barry on Hidden Figures. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
Marjorie Prime: Exclusive Interview with Michael Almereyda. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
2016
Brian Selznick on Martin Scorsese and Todd Haynes. Sloan Science & Film, 2016.
Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time: Interview with
Dr. Andrew Knoll. Sloan Science & Film, 2016.
No Ghost Just A Shell: Interview with Pierre Huyghe. Sloan Science & Film, 2016.
Ellen Burstyn’s Friendship with Buckminster Fuller. Sloan Science & Film, 2016.
Games within Games: Interview with Dr. Buell on eXistenZ. Sloan Science & Film, 2016.
Interview with Dr. Paul Durham on Gattaca. Sloan Science & Film, 2016.
Algorithm for Love: Interview with Lucy Brown on The Lobster. Sloan Science & Film, 2016.
The Surgeon Behind The Knick: Interview with Dr. Burns. Sloan Science & Film, 2016.
Exclusive Interview with Douglas Trumbull: What If 2001 Was In VR? Sloan Science & Film, 2016.
Magical Realism as Journalism: Interview with Wade Davis. Sloan Science & Film, 2016.
Features
Johns Hopkins Science Review: Usefulness of Useless Knowledge. Sloan Science & Film. 2021.
Flashback to Frasier, The Sensuous Lion. Sloan Science & Film. 2020.
A. Michael Noll’s Experiment in 3-D Computer Animation Rediscovered. Sloan Science & Film. 2020.
Ernst Karel and Veronika Kusumaryati’s Expedition Content. Sloan Science & Film, 2020.
Home Cooking: “The Mother” vs. Packaged Yeast. Sloan Science & Film, 2020.
The Way They Move. Los Angeles Review of Books, 2019.
Origins Of The Laser Light Show At MoMI. Sloan Science & Film, 2019.
The Eugenics Crusade In America. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
PIXELVISION. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Carl Akeley and Nature’s Truth. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Nautical Film. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Creatures of Light: LASERIUM. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Notes on Science And Film. The Brooklyn Rail, Jan. 2018.
Addicted to Pain: Black Mirror’s “Black Museum”. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Fathoming the Deep: William Beebe and the Bathysphere. Sloan Science & Film, 2018.
Thinking Machines. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
Loïe Fuller’s Butterflys. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
Rubber, Neon, & Electronics: Experiments in Art and Technology. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
Guncotton: Shooting Film. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
Exploratory Works: William Beebe’s Underwater Films. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
The Dancer: Loïe Fuller’s Inventions. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
Lions and Ostrich and Elephants: Carl Akeley and Documentary Cinema. Sloan Science & Film, 2017.
Editorial
Contributed to research and writing for Phaidon book Ocean: Exploring the Marine World (2022).
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