Notkin's verdict on JOI's early Work

texture · UNDATED (Notkin's upperclassman days)

• When: UNDATED (recalled by Joelle 14 Nov YDAU; the remark belongs to their student years)
• What: As the program's upperclassman, Notkin had summed up Incandenza's early oeuvre as airless and non-communicative — "like conversing with a prisoner through that plastic screen using phones." The bon mot marks Notkin as the film-theory sophisticate whose read of JOI predates, and frames, the tell-all interview.