I seem to be spending enough time for a long enough time here to warrant an introduction. I’m rotacirav, soon 23 years old, and from Austria, where I’m currently taking a mental-health-induced break from college. I used to want to become an academic, but at the current stage this seems to me both unattainable and undesirable. Now I don’t want anything.
For many years I wasn’t particularly interested in films, but since this summer I have spent a lot of what you might call my free time getting to know the canon, beginning with The Night of the Hunter (still my favourite film I have seen since then). This site seems to me very useful to keep track of this exploration, and refreshingly unzeitgemäß; I like that it is more minimalist and less of a social media platform than the other rating website, and there are very interesting reviewers to be found here. I use the full 0-100 rating scale — might as well go all in if you’re going to quantify aesthetic experience at all.
I know too little about the technical aspects of filmmaking, but I know a little about (especially German) literature, philosophy (my college subjects) and music, so film’s relationship to these topics naturally interests me. I’m a little embarrassed by my current criticker favourites, these will probably change as I get more into directors like Bergman and Tarkovsky. I want more films to feature strange inscriptions running on the walls and random weird musical numbers. I’m generally against pop culture but aware of the impossibility of this stance today. In short, I do this for myself but of course my secret hope is that others might find my reviews interesting.