Olivia J. Bennett 

is a writer, editor & critic.


She works across narrative development, editorial strategy and cultural insight for creative, design-led projects.

Her writing spans screen, sound, software and the systems that shape them.


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FALLING INTO THE BEAUTIFUL TRAP: THE MARATHON AS MODERN MALAISE
Overland
DigitalDecember 2019
By Olivia J. Bennett

“Taking proselytising outside of the gym and into the public, marathon-running has become the ultimate way to signal patriarchal and capitalistic virtues that are otherwise difficult to measure. The protagonists of Run Fat Boy Run and Brittany Runs A Marathon reveal that only through limitation do we feel as if we are without limits[...]“
Still from Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019), dir. Paul Downs Colaizzo.