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Norland Téllez is an award-winning writer and animation director who currently teaches Animation and Character Design courses at Otis College of Art and Design, Cal State Fullerton. He is also conducting a Life Drawing Lab at USC School of Cinematic Arts. He earned his Ph.D. from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2009 with a dissertation on the Popol-Wuh of the K’iche’ Maya, which he is currently translating and illustrating in its archetypal dimensions as the Wisdom of the Peoples. You can learn more at norlandtellez.com.
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Jan 11, 2026 ∙ 7 min
The Massacre of the Innocence of Derry
Floating into the soundtrack of IT, the 2017 film adaptation of Stephen King’s infamous novel, the central musical theme of the film turns around the titular character of It, an unspeakable “alien” entity of savage violence, very much tailored to the specifications of the Freudian Id. Its relentless “compulsion to repeat” (every 27 years) expresses the mimetic dynamism of death drive (todestrieb) that animates It.
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Jun 8, 2025 ∙ 7 min
Nosferatu as Vampiric Healer of the Shadow of Death
Robert Eggers’ 2024 masterpiece Nosferatu affords us a powerful mythic mirror of the collective spiritual climate that produced it. Beyond the personal or childhood issues that motivated Eggers to re-make Nosferatu, we must contend with the universal transcendent appeal of the story and characters as they open up the mythic dimensions of the film.
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Dec 2, 2024 ∙ 7 min
Campbell’s Death and Renewal
The way we pick up Campbell’s work, we express our philosophy; it demonstrates the way in which we understand the value and use of history
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