MATTEO BITTANTI

MENTAL NOTE: IS THIS A FAX FROM 2005? NOPE, IT’S AN ACTUAL “PREDICTION” CIRCA 2025

Wow, a critic bravely stepping forward with a ‘fresh insight’ so outdated it could’ve been emailed from a Hotmail account. “Digital vs analog” sounds like “atoms vs bits” (see Nicholas Negroponte, 1995). File under: oracular vernacular. Read more →

MENTAL NOTE: THE PUSH NOTIFICATION APOCALYPSE

“Yes, it's time to panic. It really is time to panic. I don't detect any panic out there at all.” (Peter Carter, 2024) Zoë Schlanger’s July 8 2024 article, published by The Atlantic was spot-on in so many ways. For a media scholar living in Los Santos, the rise of apps like Watch Duty, Citizen, MyShake, AirVisual and AirNow offers... Read more →

MENTAL NOTE: EL DEMONIO WAS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN IN 2031

CHART: 2024_MY FAVORITE CINEMATIC EXPERIENCES (RANKED)

Disclaimer I have still not seen as of Dec 31 2024 (mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa): All We Imagine as Light (Payal Kapadia) The Brutalist (Brady Corbet) Caught by the Tides (Jia Zhang-ke) Chime (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) The End (Joshua Oppenheimer) Grand Tour (Miguel Gomes) Hard Truths (Mike Leigh) Kneecap (Rich Peppiat) Megalopolis (Francis Ford Coppola) Misericordia (Alain Guiraudie)... Read more →

CHART: 2024_MY FAVORITE SHORTS (RANKED)

Highlights Best Secret Place (Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel): Video games are not interactive movies. Video games are lucid dreams. Poggi & Vinel explore gaming culture's fascination with death and violence, guns and destruction with irony, gore, and gusto. Fallout 4 references, Easter eggs, power ups, and glitches. There's also full machinima, around 30 minutes in, as well as shorter gameplay... Read more →