Jordan H. Manigo | Blog | Editorials and journals on the design process, film, and storytelling.
The Shape of Water is an adult fairy tale about misfits that exist on the margins of society. I can see why Del Toro chose to write a mute protagonist with a black female and gay man as supporting characters, taking place in the 1950’s during the height of civil rights activism.
Read MoreEven though this is my story I feel like my voice takes up too much space.
Read MoreWhen I was a kid, my parents hid a VHS copy of the movie this this series is based on, at the very top of the china cabinet in our dinning room. I never stood on top of a chair and a small stack of books to find that out, or watched it or anything of course...honest
Read MoreIn my OPINION...THE BEST Spider-Man film, so far. In fact, the ones that came before don't even exist to me anymore and feel dated by comparison. Tom Holland is THE definitive Peter Parker in my mind now.
Read MoreIt's rare that a thriller / horror film is any good these days, much less one as hyped as this one.
Read MoreCaptain America: Civil War, was pretty damn good. Not the revelation that Winter Soldier was, but its up there with the best of MARVEL's ever expanding roster of films.
Read MoreYou don't just watch The Lord of The Rings, you spend quality time with it. You can't just up and decide you're going to immerse yourself in this kind of experience, all willy nilly out of the blue.
Read MoreThis is an excerpt from a TED Talk called No More Labels, by Wanuri Kahiu, a Kenyan science fiction filmmaker and storyteller. It deals with science fiction and fantasy storytelling by artists who are African or of the diaspora, and the issues of racial identity amongst artists from Africa and of the diaspora.
Read MoreMy science fiction education began with a simple realization: Humans Are White.
Read MoreI'm also fascinated (and possibly even perplexed) by the obsessive focus on royalty, and all of it's associated traits, in these stories and what they say about the way in which humanity contextualizes identity and or defines what it means to be a success and or valued.
Read MoreUnlike traditional fantasy, Miyazaki doesn't present morality as a simple binary. The dichotomy of good vs evil isn't present in these films. Everything and everyone displays elements of tenderness as well as elements of savagery. Nothing in the world is either one or the other, is an amalgamation of all emotions within a spectrum.
Read MoreCreative Director. Designer. Storyteller. Nilla wafer enthusiast. Under no circumstances should you ever allow my talented and amiable disposition to fool you into thinking that I am anything more than young, dumb and full of ideas.
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