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Mark Rappaport

Mark Rappaport’s film include From the Journals of Jean Seberg and Rock Hudson’s Home Movies. Since 2014, Rappaport has made 20 video essays ranging from 10 minutes to an hour, including one for Talkhouse, The Empty Screen. His new book, Book of Dreams, a mesmerizing collection of almost 100 photomontages, is now available to buy. Four collections of his essays and fictions — all about film — The Moviegoer Who Knew Too Much, (F)au(x)tobiographies, and The Secret Life Of Moving Shadows — Pt 1 and Pt 2 are available as e-books.

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Almost Like Movies – At One Frame a Second

Filmmaker Mark Rappaport on the genesis of his witty, cinephilic photomontages, which are collected together in Book of Dreams.

May 12, 2026
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Unearthing Cinema’s Lost Treasures

Mark Rappaport, whose work is currently the subject of an Anthology Film Archives series, on the joys of making video essays about classic movies.

August 16, 2021
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Underrated/Overlooked: Mark Rappaport on The Mountain

Mark Rappaport bangs a drum for Rick Alverson's '50s-set drama starring Jeff Goldblum as a wandering lobotomist.

January 7, 2020
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Ignore the Title, You Were Never Really Here is an Upsetting, Beautiful Masterpiece

Mark Rappaport is wowed by Lynne Ramsay's long-awaited fourth feature, a film that confirms her as one of our most important living directors.

April 13, 2018
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Video Essay: Mark Rappaport on The Empty Screen

A new video essay from Mark Rappaport about movies in movies, and how the screen watches us just as we watch it.

February 6, 2017
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Mark Rappaport (From the Journals of Jean Seberg) Talks Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer

I never liked science-fiction movies. I always thought they were propaganda for a neat, tidy, immaculately designed future...

July 1, 2014