Vertigo Magazine - Vol. 4 No.2 Winter / Spring 2009

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Sample Articles

MAKERS: The More Desperate We Are, The More Hope There Is

SECOND RUN: Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves

INFLUENTIAL: Interior: Night

DOCUMENT: Fires Were Started

ANOTHER WAY OF SEEING: Pasolini and Sade: A Maleficent Obsession


Vol. 4 No.2 Winter / Spring 2009





LONGSHOTS: The Histor...	MAKERS: “The skin, ...	EXHIBITIONISM: Withou...
Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma invents its own reality	Jennifer Reeves’ When It Was Blue	The London International Documentary Festival offers a space for genuine diversity to flourish


	EXHIBITIONISM: Power To The Pixel By Nikki Nime Discovering the potential of the digital


	MAKERS: The Dardenne brothers By Robert Chilcott With The Silence of Lorna, the Dardenne brothers continue their singular cinematic – and life - project


	OVERVIEWED: Transitions By James Norton Cinema and Video Art from Georgia


	STORIES OF THE EYE: ‘Amateur’ Auteurs By Rob Dennis Three impressive recent works from China display a striking digital dissent


	AGENCY: Viva Viva By Anne Robinson An exhibition at P3 Gallery, London, December 2008


	EVENT HORIZON: On Showing a Film By Peter Todd Some Thoughts and Voices


	FOCUS: Colourfield Cinema By Poppy Sebag-Montefiore Red Sorghum ravishes the eye as it surveys the ravages of the heart and homeland


	ANIMATED: On the Quays’ Side By Claire Kitson The Comb (from The Museums of Sleep)


	INFLUENTIAL: Marvo Man By William Fowler Maverick artist-filmmaker Jeff Keen is celebrated in a major new collection


	SPECULATIONS: U.S. and Them By Jerry White I’m Not There and American Surrealism


	ROAD MOVIES: Genealogies of Film's Ruination By Stephen Barber The Cinemas of Los Angeles' Broadway


	RECLAIMED: In Memoriam By Nick Bradshaw The derelict cinemas of Los Angeles are inspiring a new documentary essay on these unique spaces of the filmic imaginary


	ATTENTION!: The Moving and the Still By Sukhdev Sandhu Ulrich Seidl’s Import / Export does not flinch in its present-tense gaze


	MORTALITIES: Modern Ruin By Grant Gee The future is already here


	BORDERLAND DISPATCHES: For What We Are About To Receive By Graeme Hobbs Our Daily Bread revisions the contents of the stomach


	DOCUMENT!: Wake Up, Freak Out – Then Get a Grip By Leo Murray A Post-post-modern Public Information Film


	SECOND RUN: Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves By Mark Cousins Kim Longinotto’s documentary vision energises and empowers


	CONDITION CRITICAL: From Darkness into Light By Rasmane Ouedraougu Policies for Audiovisual Development in Africa.


	BEYOND THE FRAME: Filming in Hot Sun By Piotr Cieplak Kenya, Kibera and the power of the image


	SITE SPECIFIC: In a Lonely Place By Iain Sinclair Tony Grisoni’s Kingsland


	SCENE AND HEARD: Legacy In The Dust By Sukhdev Sandhu Club culture and communal need in Hackney


	CONDITION CRITICAL: Redacted By the Celluloid Liberation Front The invisible film on the ‘invisible’ war


	RECLAIMED: When Signs Come Home to Roost By Catherine Lupton Dan Geva’s Description of a Memory


	INFLUENTIAL: Plot in Cinematography By Victor Shklovsky


	AUTEUR, AUTEUR: After Tropical Malady By Graeme Hobbs


	LETTER FROM...Desire in Action By Graeme Hogg and Chris Williams The Cube Microplex and the future of cinema


	FOCUS: Then and Now By Louis Benassi A subjective rhetoric, a transient ‘group’ and the challenging impossibility of the definitive gaze


	REVIEWED: So, Nu? By Sophie Mayer Questioning Jewish Autobiographical Documentary


	MANIFESTO: The Double {+} Anchor By Jem Cohen Notes Towards a Common Cause


	REVIEWED: In Pursuit of Treasure Island By James Norton Raul Ruiz is on the trail of a classic


	REVIEWED: The Animals Film By James Norton Telling it like it is


	REVIEWED: Pornocracy By Sophie Lewis Catherine Breillat’s sexual anatomy lesson appears for the first time in English


	EYEWITNESS: The Age of Stupid By Gareth Evans The huge implications of climate change are given dynamic form in Franny Armstrong’s essential new feature


	OPEN SOURCE: Divisions Upon a Ground By Dai Vaughn


	LOCATION, LOCATION: That Was the Mayday that Was By Sukhdev Sandhu Photographing Resistance


	EDITORIAL: Resistance is Fertile: the Independent Image By John Jordan


	SITE SPECIFIC: Platform Alterations By Anne Robinson Vertigo expands its online interventions


	ANOTHER WAY OF SEEING: The Moving Image By Gareth Evans Lines for Jonas Mekas after viewing his Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania*


	BEYOND THE FRAME: Expanded Cinema By Duncan White Mapping Expanded Cinema


	STUDIO SPACE: Empires of Tin By Jem Cohen


	ARTISTS' PAGES: Work in Progress By Samantha Rebello