Resisting Disavowal
Cannes 2026: I find the market that takes place at the same time as the festival to be, on the one hand, a collection of amicable meetings between potential collaborators and colleagues and, on the other hand, to be haunted — like in the kinds of films Jacques Tourneur made in Hollywood in the 50s — by the feeling that we are like cattle in a slaughterhouse.
Psychology
As someone who has spent years navigating the ecology of interpretation in which the works of Lacan re-engage with his readers, I am wary of what is usually referred to as «psychology. »
The Greeks of V13
Asked after the screening of V13, what I thought Freud would have wanted to talk about, I started my answer by saying simply, “Gaza.”
V13 in regards to the European Holocaust & Genocide in Gaza
Here is a video in which I talk about V13 in regards to the European Holocaust and the Genocide in..
The Great Famine Μεγάλος Λιμός
Many of our universities in the United States have departments of Holocaust and genocide. We need ..
If it's genocide, why so slow?
It is important to realize that—starting from the time Hitler came to power in 1933—the Nazis combined..
“I decide who is a Palestinian.”
Sound familiar? Close. Right? Actually, Trump said about Senator Schumer on March 18th from the..
Mahmoud Khalil is free
I have sometimes doubted my choice of No Human Is Illegal as the title of my 2017 film that I made about..
I Imagine My Family Singing Together
My family when I was growing up lived on a dirt road in Katonah, a small town outside of New York..
Happy Mother's Day
I received this message today. It was sent to the email address form on my web site. I want to..
Lobotomy Encore (Part II)
While doing research for my dissertation which would become the research for A Hole In One, I met a..
Foreclosure (2014)
Near the end of the millennium, some five years after leaving Paris, approaching the end of my time..
The Caller
THE CALLER (2008), my second feature film, was based on a screenplay of which most of it was..
Transorbital Lobotomy, is it right for you? (Part I)
Last year when I was flying into Newark from Paris in the early part of the summer, our flight, just as..
French Movie Sex Bombs Pursue US Marines
I remember my father as a master of salad making. Perhaps this was due to his Greek heritage but..
Leaning In
At a major cultural institution in New York City, I once served on a committee that had been tasked with..
Bad Timing
As many of you know, we have been having a hard time getting V13 into a top festival. Our historical fiction film..
Shakespeare/police dog
In the spring of 1986, I took a trip from Paris to London, crossing the channel by ferry, to visit my friend John..