Masha Tupitsyn is an American writer and

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based in New York City. Tupitsyn's writing focuses on contemporary cinema and experiments with form and genre, using media including Twitter, video essays, and

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to produce innovative work. Recurring themes in her work include gender, sexuality, spectatorship, childhood, time, the human face, the politics of beauty and acting, 70s culture and aesthetics, screen persona, love, and the relationship between onscreen and offscreen in 21st Century culture.

Education

Tupitsyn received her B.A. in Literature and Cultural Studies from The

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for Social Research and her MA in Literature and Cultural Theory from the

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in England. She is currently a PhD candidate in philosophy at the

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. She teaches film studies and literature at The New School in New York City.

Films

LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film

Tupitsyn's most recent book of film criticism, ''LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film'', was written entirely on Twitter between the years 2009–2010, and was subsequently published as a print book by Zer0 Books in 2011. ''LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film'' uses social media to explore the changing ways that we consume and construct narrative in the 21st century.

Love Sounds

The final installment of an immaterial trilogy that began in 2011, Love Sounds (2015), is a 24-hour audio history and essay of love in cinema that dematerializes cinema's visual legacy and reconstitutes it as an all-tonal history of critical listening.

DECADES

DECADES is an ongoing durational film series that composes a 20th history of cinematic sound and score for each decade of the 20th century. In 2017 and 2018, Tupitsyn completed the first and second installment of DECADES, the 1970s and the 1980s.

BULK COLLECTION, 2022

Bulk Collection, 2022

Books

*''Time Tells, vol. 1, 202

' *''Picture Cycle, 201

' *''Love Sounds'', 2015 *''Love Dog.'' Penny-Ante Editions. 2013. *''Like Someone in Love.'' Penny-Ante Editions. November 2013. *''LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film.'' Zer0 Books. (2011) *''Life As We Show It: Writing on Film'', Published by

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(2009) (co-edited with filmmaker and writer Brian Pera) *''Beauty Talk and Monsters'', Published by

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, Native Agents (2007)

Selected articles and stories

Under The Sign of Love: A Dialogue With Masha Tupitsyn
" Notebook, 2015
Masha Tupitsyn by Charity Coleman
" BOMB, 2015
Ever Since the World Began: A Reading & Interview with Masha Tupitsyn
" in ''continent.'' 3.1 (2013): 7–12.
The Acting Personality
" Indiewire's Press Play, 2013
False Moves
" The American Tetralogy, 2013
Ghost World (Like A Bad Dream
" The New Inquiry, 2013
Famous Tombs: Love in The 90s
" The White Review, 2013
A Sentimental Education
" Berfrois, 2013
Ever Since This World Began
" Berfrois, 2012
Sonic Heart (Genealogy in Song
" Berfrois, 2012
Notes on Fame (Do You Know Who You Are?
" Berfrois, 2012
Time for Nothing
a radio play for Performa 11, 2011
Solace
" Specter Magazine, 2011
In the Time of Fear: On the Films of Ingmar Bergman and Derek Jarman
" Keyframe, 2011
"All An Act,”
from Star Notes: John Cusack and The Politics of Acting, Boing Boing, 2011
Prettier in Pink
" Ryeberg Curated Video, 2011 *�
David Bowie and Mark Zuckerberg Play With Time
” Ryeberg Curated Video, 2011
Lost Highway
" Ryeberg Curated Video, 2011 " *�
Love Story
” Ryeberg Curated Video, 2010 "Screen to Screen,” *�
I Touch Myself
” Ryeberg Curated Video, 2010 *�
Untitled (On Devils)
” The Rumpus, 2009
Kleptomania
" (Beauty Talk & Monsters), 2008
Movie Men (Beauty Talk & Monsters)
" NYFA Current, 2007 *�

" (Beauty Talk & Monsters). Drunken boat, Issue 8, 2006

References

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