welcome to red string theory!
it's about things i like and the things i think about things i like.
about this substack.
this is red string theory, a space for me to write about stuff so i’m not annoying my friends by sending them 500 discrete messages on the subject. instead, if my friends are nice to me, they will subscribe to this and then receive just one email any time i’m in the mood to ramble. lucky them!
i’m a final-year PhD student at the university of aberdeen, currently based in the german and film departments. my PhD thesis is focused on the documentaries of GDR filmmakers walter heynowski and gerhard scheumann, specifically their anti-vietnam war films.
other writing & appearances.
academic
‘pilots in pyjamas’, a four-part documentary on the vietnam war by GDR filmmakers walter heynowski and gerhard scheumann, an episode of the university of aberdeen’s postgraduate podcast from the old brewery, march 2022.
‘ich hatte befehle’: multidirectional memory and the vietnam war in heynowski and scheumann’s ‘piloten im pyjama’ (1968), article published in german life and letters, august 2022.
non-fiction
ripping off the band-aid: the struggle of asking for help, blog post published on voices of academia, november 2021.
this journal has been deleted and purged, creative non-fiction piece about ephemerality and lost friends on the internet, published in collaborative zine VERY ONLINE, may 2021.
there was an old lady who swallowed a fly, creative non-fiction piece about my family, self-published on itch.io, august 2022.
(unfinished), creative non-fiction piece about works of art left unfinished on the deaths of their creators, published in TOWER magazine (vol. 1: END), may 2023.
fiction
i hope the trees lived, three short stories about americans in vietnam, self-published on itch.io, march 2023.