Selen is a San Francisco-based reporter. Her work ranges from environmental architecture and '60s-'70s film, to Bay Area politics, housing, and city news. Her recent arts publications include Bayou Magazine, Whitewall Magazine, Senses of Cinema, and Cinema Retro She is a writer for Ethnic Media Services and the Piedmont Post. She was educated in philosophy at UC Berkeley. 
Exploitation & Erotica · Mondo Culture · SF & Fantasy · Superheroes · Thrillers & Action
Turkish exploitation movies are one of the most elusive gold mines of film history. * * * Currently, no exclusive history of Turksploitation cinema exists in print. The most exhaustive[…]
Animation · Animators · Designers · Experimental & Underground
John Whitney himself envisioned nothing more and nothing less for the future of CGI than a union of space and time: “Time has become visual.” But all film deals in[…]
Celebrity Culture · Counterculture · Music & Musicals · Production History · Societal Trends · Youth
A rewatch benumbed to this flash and flare reveals the stark morbidity of Head. Throughout the movie the Monkees are assaulted, hunted, and caged. Words fail, fists fail. The film[…]
Drama · Eco · Eco-horror · Horror
I’ve detailed each film to convey the strange and strict extent to which they each cohere to one base fear: reproductive control. The only hope for human survival in Phase[…]
Experimental & Underground · Religion & Spirituality · Women in Film
The volition of these dancers is as clear as the sense that it is not their own. Deren mirrors this depersonalization masterfully; her camera splits a man between his reflections,[…]
