Institutional power & human expendability
Snowpiercer
A closed system turns class into machinery. An essay on the lives a society treats as parts, fuel, and maintenance.
N&N Foundations · Episode 01
Why
horror?
Why build a series around horror? CJ explores how the genre helps us examine our own responses, the social world around us, and the things we thought we understood.
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Start here: the questions behind the film essays
From the film archive
The machine keeps moving.
Next in the arc — Children of MenIn production
A few places to begin
Familiar films. Unsettling questions.
Manufactured reality
The Matrix
Ordinary life becomes infrastructure for extraction.
Memory & responsibility
Eternal Sunshine
The fantasy of erasing a relationship without its consequences.
Progress & expendability
Alien
When the body becomes a cost the institution can afford.
The first N&N essay collection
Beyond the screen
Belief
as System.
Doctrine, isolation, grief, and certainty. Four films, expanded into a written collection about the systems that make fear feel inevitable.
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One film opens onto another.
Browse the archive through its connected arcs. Each essay stands alone; together, they trace a larger argument.