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Writing

Writing

Selected work grouped by format.

Feature articles

Sept 2025
The Film Verdict — Most famous for his role in the Critters franchise, Oldenburg celebrates Opper’s contributions as a screenwriter.
Jan 2024
Apollo Magazine — Making a living in the capital has always been a challenge for creative types, but British television was once very interested in how they managed.
Apr 2023
Sight and Sound — The tantalising final shot of Bette Gordon’s enigmatic neo-noir offers more questions than it does answers, befitting a film that revels in the thrill of mystery.
Sept 2022
Open City Documentary Festival — Reflecting on Diego Acosta’s pastoral travelogue Under the Sky Shelter, Ben Nicholson responds with a series of vignettes as part of a series of texts commissioned around new films in this year’s festival programme.
Jul 2022
Hyperallergic — For years, Eye Filmmuseum’s Jan Bot has turned film fragments into digital experimental shorts. Now, with the project ending, those shorts will be archived via NFT.
Jun 2022
Square Eyes — The juxtaposition and interplay between human and differing non-human perspectives form an interesting vein running through four short films in the Square Eyes catalogue.

Interviews

Aug 2025
The Skinny — Charlie Shackleton was about to make a film about the Zodiac Killer when the rights to the source material fell through, leaving him to make Zodiac Killer Project, a meta documentary about the film he wasn't permitted to make

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