Taste

A vintage film camera in low light
Nolan Builds Backwards
Films assembled like watch complications: backwards, from the moment the hands must meet. On memory, guilt, time, and why the explosions merely fund the geometry. Read more...
A violin being made in a workshop
Whisper of the Heart and the Apprentice's Room
Ghibli's quietest film is a workshop drama in disguise: a violin maker's bench, an unpolished stone, and the most honest scene about talent ever animated. Read more...
Crowds crossing the Shibuya intersection in Tokyo
Satoshi Kon's Edit
How Millennium Actress and Paranoia Agent cut between memory and present: the match cut grammar every editor stole, and why it could only have been invented in animation. Read more...
A lonely road through misty mountains
Frieren and the Long Memory
An elf who outlives everyone learns to remember on purpose. The most Harum Oleh Memori story television ever made. Read more...
Black sand beach and basalt sea stacks under a grey northern sky
Thorfinn's Answer
Vinland Saga and the line that became a bottle: I have no enemies. What the pacifist arc actually argues, from the house that wears it. Read more...
Shibuya crossing at night from above
Perfect Blue Already Happened
Taste · Screen · No. 02. Satoshi Kon made a horror film about online identity in 1997. We built it anyway. Read more...
Neon signs over a wet street at night
Why Everything Looks Like Wong Kar-wai Now
Taste · Screen · No. 01. A cinema of longing became a filter. What got lost in the compression. Read more...