MASHA TUPITSYN is a writer, critic, and multi-media artist. She is the author of the books, Time Tells, a two-part study (Hard Wait Press, 2023), Picture Cycle (Semiotexte/MIT, 2019), Like Someone In Love: An Addendum to Love Dog (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), Love Dog (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film (ZerO Books, 2011), Beauty Talk & Monsters, a collection of film-based stories (Semiotexte Press/MIT, 2007), and co-editor of the anthology Life As We Show It: Writing on Film (City Lights, 2009). She wrote the introduction to Paul Schrader's First Reformed (Archway Editions/Simon & Schuster, 2023).
In 2015, she made the 24-hour film, Love Sounds, an audio-essay and history of love in English-speaking cinema, which concluded an immaterial trilogy (LACONIA, Love Dog, Love Sounds). The film was accompanied by a catalogue, published in 2015 by Penny-Ante Editions, and has been exhibited and screened in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia.
In 2017, she started her ongoing durational film series, DECADES. DECADES composes a history of cinematic sound and score for each 20th century decade. She has completed two installments, the 1970s and the 1980s. The next installment will be the 1990s.
Her newest films are BULK COLLECTION (2022) and the music series The Musicians (2022).
Her writing on film, culture, and art has been featured in numerous anthologies, journals, art catalogues, and publications such as Bookforum, Artforum, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, BOMB, LitHub, Fence, Frieze, The New Inquiry, Berfrois, IndieWire, The White Review, Fireflies, The Rumpus, Performa 11, and Pace Gallery. She has taught film, media, and literature at The New School, Pratt, and NYU.
I explore film from a deep politics perspective. My DAILY blog offers multi-media posts & screen shot criticism on film, media, culture, literature, philosophy, acting, deep politics, the deep state, COVID, Mkultra, crimes and criminals, the false matrix, free speech, everyday dissidence, sense-making, the trials of spiritual and emotional autonomy, and the quest for higher truth, faith, and love. My daily blog also features useful media references and links.