Video essays

Works from my YouTube channel, Dionysi S, that discusses and critiques films from commercial successes like My Big Fat Greek Wedding to niche art films like The Hunters by Theo Angelopoulos

My critique of the film Parthenope that dives into the two-dimensional representation of its female protagonist

A critique on My Big Fat Greek Wedding’s strange construction of the Greek identity into a racial category rather than an ethnic one

An essay about how DTF St. Louis subverts the mystery genre to create an engaging character study

An analysis of my favorite sequence in all of cinema from my favorite film and director

An essay that looks into an old Eisenstein film and what it can tell us about what our present society is missing

An in-depth analysis that explores the anti-colonial themes of Princess Mononoke