In Memoriam: Sarah Maldoror (July 19, 1929–April 13, 2020) Masha Shpolberg July 2020 Feature Articles Some filmmakers make their mark with a searing unity of vision. Film after film, they impose their inner landscapes or, perhaps, their unique way of s...
Founding Father: A Tribute to Thomas Elsaesser (1943–2019) Daniel Fairfax July 2020 Feature Articles Thomas Elsaesser, a truly titanic figure in film studies, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 76 on December 4, 2019, while on a teaching assignmen...
The 21st century plague: Cinema in the age of COVID-19 Wheeler Winston Dixon April 2020 Feature Articles We’ve seen this scenario before, but only in the cinema: a mysterious plague, for which there is no cure, suddenly appears out of nowhere and ravages ...
And Then We Danced: Queer sounds and movement Stuart Richards April 2020 Feature Articles And Then We Danced had its premiere in Georgia on 8th December 2019. I got to first experience this tender film at the Melbourne International Film Fe...
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom as Pasolini’s Film on Film Jeremy Carr April 2020 Feature Articles As a scathing indictment of the violence and debauchery revealed during the fascist reign of 1940s Italy, it is unparalleled. As a grotesquely percept...
The Russian Doll and Skripov the Spy: ASIO’s Legal Resident (1963) and Peter Butt’s Final Rendezvous (2020) John Hughes April 2020 Feature Articles Within the archive meaning exists in a state that is both residual and potential. The suggestion of past uses coexists with a plentitude of possibili...
Hitting Rock Bottom: Representing Capital in Late Neoliberal Cinema Jensen Suther April 2020 Feature Articles The winner of this year’s Best Picture award at the Oscars was a South Korean film about class resentment, economic desperation, and the parasitic dep...
The lecturer’s legacy: In memory of Professor Peter Wollen Victoria Duckett January 2020 Feature Articles Peter Wollen, the famous British scholar, essayist, screenwriter, filmmaker, theorist and curator, has died after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Pete...
American Utopia: Socio-economic Critique and Utopia in American Honey and The Florida Project Jennifer Kirby October 2019 Feature Articles Political cinema frequently conjures the aesthetic and narrative tradition of social realism, while utopia is a concept often associated with genres t...
Intimate Terrains: Contemporary German Cinema, Migration, and the Films of Aysun Bademsoy Joy Castro October 2019 Feature Articles Five excellent new documentaries about refugees screened at the 2018 Berlinale: Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow (2017), Jakob Preuss’s When Paul Came Over the ...
Cinema Never Dies: Abbas Kiarostami’s 24 Frames and The Ontology of the Digital Image James Slaymaker October 2019 Feature Articles 24 Frames, the final feature from master Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, grew out of an abandoned project the auteur had been developing in conjun...
Woody Allen: Television as Crisis Alex Munt October 2019 Feature Articles “Renata Adler said television was an appliance rather than an artform.” Woody Allen in Meetin’ WA, Jean-Luc Godard, 1986 It was in high-school that ...
