Danica van de Velde

Danica van de Velde is a Perth-based writer and scholar whose work spans film, literature, and food writing. With a focus on memory, space, and sensory experience, she explores cinema alongside culinary traditions. Her writing appears in Senses of Cinema, Another Gaze, and Metro, blending critical insight with a poetic, interdisciplinary approach.

Reviews

The Dance of Another: Dancing into oblivion in Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria (2018)

By Danica van de Velde — Luca Guadagnino's 2018 Suspiria weaponizes dance itself—where Argento's original used daggers, Guadagnino's pirouettes become instruments of destruction. Through Damien Jalet's visceral choreography, every movement embodies both creative force and annihilation.