Kenna Wong Ghaill

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i'm like if bigfoot had tits. Film Programmer at the Art Theatre of Long Beach. Monthly film column in The Ardent. https://pckt.blog/b/kennawong

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Projecting Power.

“I think it would be fun to run a newspaper,” Hollywood’s boy wonder, Orson Welles, casually quips in Citizen Kane. He is about to discover that controlling information means controlling reality, and …

Apr 13·1 min read·84 words

Metropolis divided.

They spoke the same language but could not understand each other. Featured [in the Art Theatre of Long Beach and City Fabrick's Designing Resistance film week] alongside films about protest, architect…

Apr 12·1 min read·76 words

Sundance Review: "Josephine"

Will the feel-bad breakout of the last Sundance be this year's CODA? This weekend, Josephine (the sophomore feature from writer-director Beth de Araújo) took both the Grand Jury and Audience awards at…

Mar 28·1 min read·87 words

Sundance Review: “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!”

Since the first entertainers emerged with their sketches and tableaus, comedy has been meant for an audience, not an individual. The high of a laugh, a gasp, a scream shared with strangers cannot be c…

Mar 28·1 min read·95 words

It is happening again.

It is happening again. It is happening again. The now iconic phrase first uttered on a Thursday night in 1990. Now repeated ad nauseam through Lynch-coded memes on social media, it first represented t…

Mar 26·1 min read·92 words

Three conversations with the gimp.

A summary of three post-screening Q&As with writer and comedian Stephen Hibbert at the Art Theatre of Long Beach for the fortieth anniversary of Pulp Fiction. Stephen was, and still is, a friend of Qu…

Feb 16·4 min read·689 words