The Empty Hourglass: Mike Kleine’s Cosmology in Kanley Stubrick
Kleine’s novella-in-verse achieves ephemeral constancy through the use of the fragment as a signal for filmic cuts. Part of the anchoring effect of Kanley is due to its treatment of both the continuous and the discontinuous: “This new and mysterious dream. / where / everything feels like it is burning” confronts the startlingly-contemporary observation “it’s like real lyfe”. Scenario, rather than plot, guides the movement of Stubrick.
E.G. Cunningham reviews Kanley Stubrick by Mike Kleine.