Hannah Bonner
Hannah Bonner’s criticism has appeared in Cleveland Review of Books, Literary Hub, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Senses of Cinema, The Rumpus, and The Sewanee Review, among others. She is a 2023-2024 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellow and an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at the University of Iowa.
By Hannah Bonner
| May 9, 2025
Under soft lighting, amidst her drab surroundings, Hideko Takamine shines. As she and Tomioka open a bottle of shochu, Naruse keeps Yukiko centered in the foreground while Tomioka faces her in profile at the periphery of the frame.
Each of the eleven filmmakers activates celluloid’s formal potentials while also negotiating the tensions among technologies that irrevocably alter our world—and ways of seeing.
The full scale of our emotions is cinematically clarified throughout these 13 films, chronicling a continuous transmutation of feeling into thought.