Dylan Fugel

Jul 17, 2024 | pastemagazine.com | Dylan Fugel

A Laura Merli joke sneaks up on you. It might be the one about how a cat café can quickly start to resemble your middle school experience. It could be the one about why “how did your loved one die?” is not a good icebreaker question. Or it could be one of the many found in her new special, Belly Slappin’ Fun, which marks the debut special for a comic who’s been making the rounds in the New York comedy scene for many years.

Apr 11, 2024 | brightwalldarkroom.com | Dylan Fugel

Languid, tensile, alluring, sweaty, supple, pliable. To watch Beau Travail is to watch the human body in motion, the day-to-day procession of existence in a corporeal form powerful enough to inspire the most primal emotions in others. From the very first moments of the film, when we see native Djiboutians dance and sway to the pulsing beat of Tarkan’s ‘Şimarik’, we are transported to a cinematic world that seeks to exist beyond mere language.

Apr 5, 2024 | brightwalldarkroom.com | Kellie Herson |Dylan Fugel |Elizabeth Cantwell |Michael Moreci

Much like The Matrix, released only a few weeks prior in the spring of 1999, David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ plays with the question of whether we really inhabit the reality we think we inhabit. But whereas The Matrix posits systemic and structural forces keeping subjects in the dark, eXistenZ presents a more realistic version of our potential subjection to a simulated reality.

Jan 24, 2024 | pastemagazine.com | Dylan Fugel

The first time you saw Kyle Gordon, he probably didn’t look like Kyle Gordon. He might have been sporting the pinstripes, horn-rimmed glasses, and probable laudanum addiction of an old-time baseball player. He might have been in the dapper turtleneck and questionable morals of Antonio Frankfurt, or the fringed vest of Tanya McCabe. You almost definitely saw him in the flame-red hair and mirrored Oakleys of DJ Crazy Times.

Nov 18, 2023 | medium.com | Dylan Fugel

Novels about a guy that sucks who exactly resembles you are a dime a dozen. I can only apologize if you felt that way, but I must insist that your accusation is untrue. There is no basis for thinking that you are represented in my work of autofiction, a genre that is entirely dependent on creating recognizable figures who are just different enough from their possible inspirations to avoid lawsuits. Yes, one of the characters shares the same relationship to the protagonist as you and I have.