Mark Dzula, Author at Bright Wall/Dark Room

JoinedJune 1, 2022

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Mark Dzula is an educator, artist, and scholar. Academically, he focuses on communications, technology, and education; his most recent research centers on digital participation in high school journalism. As an artist, he makes music with dzuls, his indie folk-rock project. See music in the desert, as well as pictures of flowers and his pet desert tortoise with @dzulsforsale.

Back to the Suture: Transgressive Desire in Irma Vep

Mark Dzula·

Issue 111: Time Travel

Technically, Olivier Assayas' new Irma Vep is a remake about a remake of a film about a remake of Louis Feuillade’s epic 1915-16 silent serial, Les Vampires. Heartbreakingly, it’s about the consequences of trying to transcend reality by using filmmaking as a vehicle to touch the light.

Melodrama and The Happiness of the Katakuris

Mark Dzula·

Issue 108: Melodrama

The Happiness of the Katakuris shimmers with an almost Muppet-level cheer and earnestness, even as cadavers pile up and zombies skulk.