On Film for Invisible Ink, Case No. 142: ABBREVIATION FOR DEAD WINTER [Diminished by 1,794] (David Gatten, 2008)
While nearly everything we see is not reducible to merely perceptual phenomena, all of it is at a minimum a perceptual phenomena.
Kipp De Man graduated from Calvin University in 2023, having majored in film and media studies. He is currently working towards a master’s degree in the same discipline at Washington University in St. Louis. He enjoys reading and writing poetry, rock climbing, and Coke Zero.
by Kipp De Man | Jan 4, 2025 | 0 comments
While nearly everything we see is not reducible to merely perceptual phenomena, all of it is at a minimum a perceptual phenomena.
by Kipp De Man | Dec 4, 2024 | 1 comment
Look, sometimes pop music is good at its job.
by Kipp De Man | Nov 4, 2024 | 0 comments
To be clear, I have nothing against Mary Oliver.
by Kipp De Man | Oct 4, 2024 | 2 comments
There are days when it seems that all I can think about are people who have seemingly moved on from me.
by Kipp De Man | Sep 4, 2024 | 0 comments
I like hiking, earthy tones and station wagons—should I go full granola?
by Kipp De Man | Jul 4, 2024 | 1 comment
I have only been told that I am free, but not what that is for.
by Kipp De Man | Jun 4, 2024 | 0 comments
I don’t talk as much as I used to on these walks.
by Kipp De Man | May 4, 2024 | 2 comments
One views art as a platform by which they speak, the other sees it as a process by which a voice is explored and perhaps revealed.
by Kipp De Man | Feb 4, 2024 | 0 comments
There’s no reason to think that the thing we are doing now, or might be doing in the future, isn’t the thing we could be best at.
by Kipp De Man | Jan 4, 2024 | 0 comments
Look for this one come the Oscars (not that they matter).
by Kipp De Man | Dec 4, 2023 | 1 comment
I try not to take Letterboxd too seriously, but I do anyway.
by Kipp De Man | Nov 4, 2023 | 2 comments
I think everyone should be allowed to have a few things on their mind, so long as they get sorted out eventually.
by Kipp De Man | Oct 4, 2023 | 0 comments
It seems something has shorted in its circuitry.
by Kipp De Man | Sep 4, 2023 | 0 comments
I’m trying to capture the same curiosity that led forty-two men westward to see what exactly the world was that unfurled for miles ahead of them.
by Kipp De Man | Aug 4, 2023 | 2 comments
I imagine telling my story to someone; spin a future where there wasn’t a pandemic anymore, and I wasn’t working at a warehouse anymore, and I wasn’t alone anymore.