"This strange novel sets up imaginary sect Oculus Dei as devout enemies of the darkness that lives between each frame of film negative.... This is the book that Darren Aronofsky has long dreamed of directing, a novel the digs deep into the deepest meanings of cinema..."

"Flicker is the love child of Pauline Kael and Umberto Eco—a 700-page novel that combines religious philosophy and film theory, with some tantric sex thrown in... If “Flicker” sounds unlike anything you’ve ever read, it is—and gloriously so."