Offscreen Shaman
@offscreenshaman.bsky.social
Film essays that expose the hidden machinery.
From Inception to Jaws
what cinema teaches us to believe.
offscreenobservations.substack.com
From Inception to Jaws
what cinema teaches us to believe.
offscreenobservations.substack.com
It’s not about the hero’s journey. It’s about the silence that let it happen. Paul didn’t choose the myth. The myth chose him.
August 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
It’s not about the hero’s journey. It’s about the silence that let it happen. Paul didn’t choose the myth. The myth chose him.
Revision Loop 000:
Step 1: Garage entry
Step 2: Regret tweak
Step 3: File erase.
Primer’s loops
Tue 9 am.
Start with Timecop x Tenet bit.ly/44NczX8
T-67hrs.
Why loop?
#Primer #TimeTravel
Step 1: Garage entry
Step 2: Regret tweak
Step 3: File erase.
Primer’s loops
Tue 9 am.
Start with Timecop x Tenet bit.ly/44NczX8
T-67hrs.
Why loop?
#Primer #TimeTravel
July 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Revision Loop 000:
Step 1: Garage entry
Step 2: Regret tweak
Step 3: File erase.
Primer’s loops
Tue 9 am.
Start with Timecop x Tenet bit.ly/44NczX8
T-67hrs.
Why loop?
#Primer #TimeTravel
Step 1: Garage entry
Step 2: Regret tweak
Step 3: File erase.
Primer’s loops
Tue 9 am.
Start with Timecop x Tenet bit.ly/44NczX8
T-67hrs.
Why loop?
#Primer #TimeTravel
July 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Some traps wear old voices. Some memories wait in corners. Last week was breath. This one's the flinch. Watch the edges. Monday.
July 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Some traps wear old voices. Some memories wait in corners. Last week was breath. This one's the flinch. Watch the edges. Monday.
Once a dance of pauses,
a glance to ignite the fuse,
now a blitz where shadows mute the soul.
a glance to ignite the fuse,
now a blitz where shadows mute the soul.
June 29, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Once a dance of pauses,
a glance to ignite the fuse,
now a blitz where shadows mute the soul.
a glance to ignite the fuse,
now a blitz where shadows mute the soul.
Autoplay
We used to wait
for breath
for blush
for a glance that lasted too long
Now it loads
in four seconds
moan before meaning
climax before care
The pause was the point
The pacing was the plea
Now it’s just
position
pattern
proof.
And the ghosts?
They don’t haunt
They buffer
We used to wait
for breath
for blush
for a glance that lasted too long
Now it loads
in four seconds
moan before meaning
climax before care
The pause was the point
The pacing was the plea
Now it’s just
position
pattern
proof.
And the ghosts?
They don’t haunt
They buffer
June 28, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Autoplay
We used to wait
for breath
for blush
for a glance that lasted too long
Now it loads
in four seconds
moan before meaning
climax before care
The pause was the point
The pacing was the plea
Now it’s just
position
pattern
proof.
And the ghosts?
They don’t haunt
They buffer
We used to wait
for breath
for blush
for a glance that lasted too long
Now it loads
in four seconds
moan before meaning
climax before care
The pause was the point
The pacing was the plea
Now it’s just
position
pattern
proof.
And the ghosts?
They don’t haunt
They buffer
Just dropped a piece on Timecop x Tenet and how 'memory is already a managed service.' Your timeline reorders. Your feed refreshes. Your past becomes suggestion. Is your self being 'edited'? Link in bio.
June 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Just dropped a piece on Timecop x Tenet and how 'memory is already a managed service.' Your timeline reorders. Your feed refreshes. Your past becomes suggestion. Is your self being 'edited'? Link in bio.
Tenet and Timecop linger like unanswered echoes.
Tomorrow, my hardest essay yet: time bends, control tightens, records rewrite us.
Free read: offscreenobservations.substack.com
#TimeLoops #FilmAnalysis
Tomorrow, my hardest essay yet: time bends, control tightens, records rewrite us.
Free read: offscreenobservations.substack.com
#TimeLoops #FilmAnalysis
June 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Tenet and Timecop linger like unanswered echoes.
Tomorrow, my hardest essay yet: time bends, control tightens, records rewrite us.
Free read: offscreenobservations.substack.com
#TimeLoops #FilmAnalysis
Tomorrow, my hardest essay yet: time bends, control tightens, records rewrite us.
Free read: offscreenobservations.substack.com
#TimeLoops #FilmAnalysis
Like fireflies to the moon—
they flicker and fade.
You remain.
they flicker and fade.
You remain.
June 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Like fireflies to the moon—
they flicker and fade.
You remain.
they flicker and fade.
You remain.
It's been 50 years since Jaws hit the water. The silence lingers, the beach feels open, and the water remembers.
They’ve boarded grief, not just a boat, ego, and fragile manhood adrift.
Free read: substack.com/@offscreenob...
#Jaws50 #FilmAnalysis
They’ve boarded grief, not just a boat, ego, and fragile manhood adrift.
Free read: substack.com/@offscreenob...
#Jaws50 #FilmAnalysis
June 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It's been 50 years since Jaws hit the water. The silence lingers, the beach feels open, and the water remembers.
They’ve boarded grief, not just a boat, ego, and fragile manhood adrift.
Free read: substack.com/@offscreenob...
#Jaws50 #FilmAnalysis
They’ve boarded grief, not just a boat, ego, and fragile manhood adrift.
Free read: substack.com/@offscreenob...
#Jaws50 #FilmAnalysis
Two men.
Two loops.
One weaves his own myth, the other enforces a script yet unwritten. Timecop x Tenet collide in my next Substack piece.
Free read: offscreenobservations.substack.com
#FilmAnalysis #ComingSoon
Two loops.
One weaves his own myth, the other enforces a script yet unwritten. Timecop x Tenet collide in my next Substack piece.
Free read: offscreenobservations.substack.com
#FilmAnalysis #ComingSoon
June 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Two men.
Two loops.
One weaves his own myth, the other enforces a script yet unwritten. Timecop x Tenet collide in my next Substack piece.
Free read: offscreenobservations.substack.com
#FilmAnalysis #ComingSoon
Two loops.
One weaves his own myth, the other enforces a script yet unwritten. Timecop x Tenet collide in my next Substack piece.
Free read: offscreenobservations.substack.com
#FilmAnalysis #ComingSoon
Watching Pee-wee’s Big Adventure as a kid, I saw myself in Pee-wee’s unapologetic weirdness. My new essay unpacks its queer heart and why it still matters.
#PeeWeesBigAdventure
Read it on Substack (link in bio).
#PeeWeesBigAdventure
Read it on Substack (link in bio).
June 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Watching Pee-wee’s Big Adventure as a kid, I saw myself in Pee-wee’s unapologetic weirdness. My new essay unpacks its queer heart and why it still matters.
#PeeWeesBigAdventure
Read it on Substack (link in bio).
#PeeWeesBigAdventure
Read it on Substack (link in bio).
He didn’t rush
He learned her
Mapped her with reverence,
kissed like he was listening
Every tremor a secret.
Every sigh
permission
She broke in his language
and in that unraveling
she was free
#SensualPoetry #RomanticWords
He learned her
Mapped her with reverence,
kissed like he was listening
Every tremor a secret.
Every sigh
permission
She broke in his language
and in that unraveling
she was free
#SensualPoetry #RomanticWords
June 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
He didn’t rush
He learned her
Mapped her with reverence,
kissed like he was listening
Every tremor a secret.
Every sigh
permission
She broke in his language
and in that unraveling
she was free
#SensualPoetry #RomanticWords
He learned her
Mapped her with reverence,
kissed like he was listening
Every tremor a secret.
Every sigh
permission
She broke in his language
and in that unraveling
she was free
#SensualPoetry #RomanticWords
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure: a wild ride where innocence meets the absurd. My next essay unravels its hidden truths. Stay tuned! #FilmAnalysis #PrideMonth
June 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure: a wild ride where innocence meets the absurd. My next essay unravels its hidden truths. Stay tuned! #FilmAnalysis #PrideMonth
On narrative in The Accountant 2
A haiku:
Brown hands fuel the fight
White men grieve and claim the tale
Others’ voices mute
#FilmCriticism #TheAccountant2
A haiku:
Brown hands fuel the fight
White men grieve and claim the tale
Others’ voices mute
#FilmCriticism #TheAccountant2
June 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
On narrative in The Accountant 2
A haiku:
Brown hands fuel the fight
White men grieve and claim the tale
Others’ voices mute
#FilmCriticism #TheAccountant2
A haiku:
Brown hands fuel the fight
White men grieve and claim the tale
Others’ voices mute
#FilmCriticism #TheAccountant2
Rewatching Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.
It hits harder now.
Two Americas unfold:
One a myth that never was
One too real to survive.
Pee-wee pedals through both,
bowtie bold, laugh too big to fake
yet truer than the screen itself.
#PrideMonth
It hits harder now.
Two Americas unfold:
One a myth that never was
One too real to survive.
Pee-wee pedals through both,
bowtie bold, laugh too big to fake
yet truer than the screen itself.
#PrideMonth
June 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Rewatching Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.
It hits harder now.
Two Americas unfold:
One a myth that never was
One too real to survive.
Pee-wee pedals through both,
bowtie bold, laugh too big to fake
yet truer than the screen itself.
#PrideMonth
It hits harder now.
Two Americas unfold:
One a myth that never was
One too real to survive.
Pee-wee pedals through both,
bowtie bold, laugh too big to fake
yet truer than the screen itself.
#PrideMonth
Inception haunts as horror this Monday, June 9.
Not puzzles, grief. Not mazes, Mal.
My Substack unmasks Cobb’s truth.
Bring your totem.
Subscribe for weekly myths: offscreenobservations.substack.com
#Inception #FilmCriticism
Not puzzles, grief. Not mazes, Mal.
My Substack unmasks Cobb’s truth.
Bring your totem.
Subscribe for weekly myths: offscreenobservations.substack.com
#Inception #FilmCriticism
June 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Inception haunts as horror this Monday, June 9.
Not puzzles, grief. Not mazes, Mal.
My Substack unmasks Cobb’s truth.
Bring your totem.
Subscribe for weekly myths: offscreenobservations.substack.com
#Inception #FilmCriticism
Not puzzles, grief. Not mazes, Mal.
My Substack unmasks Cobb’s truth.
Bring your totem.
Subscribe for weekly myths: offscreenobservations.substack.com
#Inception #FilmCriticism
“Inception isn’t a maze, it’s a ghost story. The mind is the house being haunted. My upcoming essay explores Nolan’s dreamworld: power, memory, silences.
offscreenobservations.substack.com
What’s the Inception moment that still echoes for you? #Inception #Movies”
offscreenobservations.substack.com
What’s the Inception moment that still echoes for you? #Inception #Movies”
June 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
“Inception isn’t a maze, it’s a ghost story. The mind is the house being haunted. My upcoming essay explores Nolan’s dreamworld: power, memory, silences.
offscreenobservations.substack.com
What’s the Inception moment that still echoes for you? #Inception #Movies”
offscreenobservations.substack.com
What’s the Inception moment that still echoes for you? #Inception #Movies”
I break myself on the promise of my future.
I leave my mask on the ground and embrace this pain as new.
I bleed without apology, because at least it’s mine.
I leave my mask on the ground and embrace this pain as new.
I bleed without apology, because at least it’s mine.
June 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I break myself on the promise of my future.
I leave my mask on the ground and embrace this pain as new.
I bleed without apology, because at least it’s mine.
I leave my mask on the ground and embrace this pain as new.
I bleed without apology, because at least it’s mine.
Late night horror: Constantine is hitting harder than I remembered.
Faith without freedom. Salvation through suffering.
Faith without freedom. Salvation through suffering.
June 3, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Late night horror: Constantine is hitting harder than I remembered.
Faith without freedom. Salvation through suffering.
Faith without freedom. Salvation through suffering.
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I write about what films say, what they silence, and what that reveals about the world that made them.
If that resonates, come linger with me.
offscreenobservations.substack.com
I write about what films say, what they silence, and what that reveals about the world that made them.
If that resonates, come linger with me.
offscreenobservations.substack.com
May 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
35 subscribers.
I write about what films say, what they silence, and what that reveals about the world that made them.
If that resonates, come linger with me.
offscreenobservations.substack.com
I write about what films say, what they silence, and what that reveals about the world that made them.
If that resonates, come linger with me.
offscreenobservations.substack.com
Everyone has a Joker.
Nicholson, Ledger, Phoenix, Hamill, Leto (if you’re bold).
Who nailed it for you?
Nicholson, Ledger, Phoenix, Hamill, Leto (if you’re bold).
Who nailed it for you?
May 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Everyone has a Joker.
Nicholson, Ledger, Phoenix, Hamill, Leto (if you’re bold).
Who nailed it for you?
Nicholson, Ledger, Phoenix, Hamill, Leto (if you’re bold).
Who nailed it for you?
Let’s frame this chaos.
The Joker didn’t test sanity. He tested compliance.
A clown. A ferry. And the cost of trusting systems that never saw you.
The next Framing Monsters is in the works.
Until then: offscreenobservations.substack.com
The Joker didn’t test sanity. He tested compliance.
A clown. A ferry. And the cost of trusting systems that never saw you.
The next Framing Monsters is in the works.
Until then: offscreenobservations.substack.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Let’s frame this chaos.
The Joker didn’t test sanity. He tested compliance.
A clown. A ferry. And the cost of trusting systems that never saw you.
The next Framing Monsters is in the works.
Until then: offscreenobservations.substack.com
The Joker didn’t test sanity. He tested compliance.
A clown. A ferry. And the cost of trusting systems that never saw you.
The next Framing Monsters is in the works.
Until then: offscreenobservations.substack.com
Every system has a monster. Sometimes it’s smiling.
New essay drops soon. Not a shark this time.
A clown. A ferry.
And what it costs to stay sane in a world built to break you.
New essay drops soon. Not a shark this time.
A clown. A ferry.
And what it costs to stay sane in a world built to break you.
May 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Every system has a monster. Sometimes it’s smiling.
New essay drops soon. Not a shark this time.
A clown. A ferry.
And what it costs to stay sane in a world built to break you.
New essay drops soon. Not a shark this time.
A clown. A ferry.
And what it costs to stay sane in a world built to break you.
Shaw wasn’t the only one afraid. The shark broke down. The dog lunged. And the camera wasn’t rolling.
(Jaws: Memories from Martha’s Vineyard)
The performance was never just on screen.
I’ve been writing about what that silence hid.
New piece Tuesday.
offscreenobservations.substack.com
(Jaws: Memories from Martha’s Vineyard)
The performance was never just on screen.
I’ve been writing about what that silence hid.
New piece Tuesday.
offscreenobservations.substack.com
May 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Shaw wasn’t the only one afraid. The shark broke down. The dog lunged. And the camera wasn’t rolling.
(Jaws: Memories from Martha’s Vineyard)
The performance was never just on screen.
I’ve been writing about what that silence hid.
New piece Tuesday.
offscreenobservations.substack.com
(Jaws: Memories from Martha’s Vineyard)
The performance was never just on screen.
I’ve been writing about what that silence hid.
New piece Tuesday.
offscreenobservations.substack.com