Contributors
Jay Plaat

Jay Plaat received his BA in Cultural Studies and his MA in Creative Industries from Radboud University Nijmegen. His work focuses primarily on cinematic rhythm and autonomous cinematic space. He currently works as a creative copywriter in his native town Uden (the Netherlands), the greenest city of Europe.
Articles by
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Canadian Independent Cinema: Crawdaddy, Desire and Isolation
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Contemplations on the Artistic Mind at the 44th Istanbul Film Festival
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Atlas Cinema and the Moving Image as an Experiment in Community Building
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Trainwrecks on the Mountain, Shipwrecks at Sea
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Staring at the Sun: Luminous Tragedies, Repertory Screenings, and Sentimental Stories at Cannes 2025
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Modern Natives and Cultural Conflict and Exchange: Beans (2020) and The Business of Fancydancing (2002)
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Kristoffer Borgli: The Director Who Turns Narcissism and Absurdity into Art
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Imagined Communities, Capitalism’s Periodic Crises, and the book Money, Power, and the People (2019); and films Hell or High Water (2016) / The Big Short (2015)
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Clearcut (Canada, Ryszard Bugajski, 1991)
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Scarpedicemente: Canadian Indie Gangster Comedy With a Big Heart