Akira Mizuta Lippit
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Akira Mizuta Lippit
@alippit.bsky.social
Cinema and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages and Cultures at University of Southern California

Cinema without Reflection (2016)
Ex-Cinema (2012)
Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) (2005)
Electric Animal (2000)
These are less interviews than autobiographies. I’ve been fortunate to speak with some of the artists I admire most. My conversation w Marcel Ophuls was transformative for me. I don’t have the transcripts but the Academy has all the video records. I keep detailed my own detailed notes.
May 27, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Thank you Juhan. I’ve been working with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Visual History Project for the past decade. We record long format conversations that end only when the interviewee end it.
May 27, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Aquaman is from a Foreign Land and although I’m against in principle tariffs on seafood, would totally support crippling tariffs on that entire franchise
May 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Now Academy will have give award to best film from a Foreign Land, would that include Canada as well as Middle Earth?
May 5, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Maybe utopia is human extinction
April 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I saw him next to “man of the crowd” who was dressed as Waldo
January 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM