Tim Markatos is a designer, critic, and photographer who lives in Washington, D.C.

He is currently the UX designer for the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service. He also writes a monthly newsletter about movies, which you can read and subscribe to here.

A black and white photograph of Tim Markatos

Design

Partnership for Public Service
Website redesign for the organization’s 20th anniversary

Service to America Medals
Website redesign for the awards program honoring outstanding federal employees

Go Government
Resource center connecting young jobseekers to careers in government

Lacuna Magazine
Prototype for the first-ever magazine of no ideas

Selected Writing

Film Criticism

Resisting the Tyranny of the Clock
Review of Unrest and R.M.N. for Plough

A Solitary Anarchist
Review of Criterion Channel’s Nikos Papatakis retrospective for Commonweal

To Srebrenica, Suffering Again
Essay on filmed representations of war and Jasmila Žbanić’s Quo Vadis, Aida? for Athwart

Two Identities, One Faith
Centennial biography of Éric Rohmer for Plough

Eschatology Gone Wild
Essay on cinematic provocation and religious apocalyptic thinking for Full Stop

Better Living Through Minimalism
Essay on the aesthetics of animation and Isao Takahata’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya for Bright Wall Dark Room

Book Reviews

Orthodoxy and Queerness
Review of “Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality” for Commonweal

Remoralizing Sex
Review of Rethinking Sex: A Provocation for The Bias


Social

Letterboxd

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