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Vol. 3 No.6 Summer 2007
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. 3 No.6 Summer 2007
 
 
 
 
STORIES OF THE EYE: C...   SPECULATIONS: Reality...   BEYOND THE FRAME: Son...

Why is Borderline being stopped at the British border?
 
Reflections on art and faith, mind and the world
 
Report from a Virtual Reality
         
   
 
RECLAIMED: Turning to Dust
By James Rose
The Gothic Cinema of Philip Ridley
 
   
   
 
SCENE AND HEARD: Faith in the Audiovisible
By Catherine Lupton
Into Great Silence and Devotional Cinema
 
   
   
 
REVIEWED: Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema
By Sheila Whitaker
Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema. Edited by Hamid Dabashi; Preface by Edward Said
 
   
   
 
REVIEWED: Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture and Film
Reviewed by Chris Darke
Atlas of Emotion: Journeys in Art, Architecture and Film
 
   
   
 
REVIEWED: The Future of the Image
Reviewed by Chris Darke
The Future of the Image
 
   
   
 
OPEN SOURCE: Barton Aerodrome
By Nicholas Royle
From a work-in-process
 
   
   
 
RECLAIMED: The Opened Hand
By Graeme Hobbs
Reflections on Artur Aristakisyan's Palms
 
   
   
 
EXHIBITIONISM: Gardens in Autumn
By Rob McCrae
Georgian auteur Otar Iosseliani remains a genuine maverick of the movies
 
   
   
 
LETTER FROM.....London
By Stephen Barber and Jeremy Reed
 
   
   
 
INFLUENTIAL: Filming the ‘unfilmable’
By Libby Saxton
Thoughts on Shoah
 
   
   
 
MANIFESTO: On Creativity
Text chosen by Tereza Stehlíková.
 
   
   
 
STORIES OF THE EYE: Kiss Kiss? Bang Bang?
By Sarah Wood
Elizabeth McAlpine’s Adventures in Cinema
 
   
   
 
ROAD MOVIES: Once More, into the Zone …
By Chris Darke
Chris Marker looks back, in wonder
 
   
   
 
SITE SPECIFIC: UbuWeb
By James Norton
The YouTube of the avant-garde
 
   
   
 
MAKERS: The Mystery, as Always
By James Norton
Raúl Ruiz, Klimt and the Poetics of Cinema
 
   
   
 
RIGHT TO REPLY: Simone Weil
By Anat Pick
Notes on a Timid Cinema
 
   
   
 
AGENCY: In the Shell of the Ear
By John Bradburn
Listening to the School of Sound 2007
 
   
   
 
SCENE AND HEARD: The Fragile Relations of Ecology
By Janet Harbord
A new British feature film by Sarah Turner reinvents narrative as an avant-garde form
 
   
   
 
ART AND CRAFT: How Many Roads…
By Holly Aylett
Bringing the UNESCO Convention for Cultural Diversity to Life
 
   
   
 
ART AND CRAFT: In Spite of Co-Production
By Audrius Juzenas
Surviving to Make Films in Lithuania
 
   
   
 
MORTALITIES: We do everything for this art, but this art isn’t everything
By George Clark and Redmond Entwistle
Notes on Danièle Huillet and Jean Marie Straub
 
   
   
 
INFLUENTIAL: Tait Modern
By Gareth Evans
Margaret Tait was one of the most distinctive artist film-makers these islands have produced
 
   
   
 
CONDITION CRITICAL: Drive, He Said
By Gareth Evans
The allure of the open road finds its perfect driving partner in the cinema
 
   
   
 
OVERVIEWED: Madness Contained
By Brad Prager
Werner Herzog’s return to the ‘scene of the crime’
 
   
   
 
LOCATION, LOCATION: Londres, Bombay
By Patrick Keiller
Stations on the Journey
 
   
   
 
FOCUS: A Dance to the Music of Time
By Gareth Evans
Béla Tarr’s 1994 epic Sátántango offers one of cinema’s most intense and rewarding experiences
 
   
   
 
ANIMATED: Songs of Innocence and Experience
By Gareth Evans
William Blake’s radical experimentation with image and text is cinema itself
 
   
   
 
STORIES OF THE EYE: Still / Moving
By Gareth Evans
Desire Paths in Dryden Goodwin’s Flight
 
   
   
 
LETTER FROM....The Wild East
By Sian Glaessner
Soviet ‘western’ White Sun of the Desert still takes Russia by storm
 
   
   
 
BEYOND THE FRAME: Gravity and Grace
By Gareth Evans
Don DeLillo’s Falling Man offers a profound fiction about the artesian truths of our time
 
   
   
 
BEYOND THE FRAME: In the National Interest?
By Gayatri Chatterjee
Questions of Independence in Indian Cinema
 
   
   
 
FOCUS: Beyond the Perimeter Fence
By Gareth Evans
Jay Griffiths’ Wild: an Elemental Journey lights a path towards fuller being in the world
 
   
   
 
FOCUS: The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion
By Gareth Evans
A trinity of documentaries throw light and dark on the essential oeuvre
 
   
   
 
DOCUMENT!: The Poetry of Commitment
By Gareth Evans
Two new essays in different media speak with optimism and honour to the need for continued, lyric engagement
 
   
   
 
LONGSHOTS: Unbearable Lightness of a Moment
By Tereza Stehlíková
Impressions from Oberhausen and beyond
 
   
   
 
FOCUS: Andrew Kötting’s Gallivant
By Gareth Evans
A unique journey through the moving image is properly celebrated on dvd
 
   
   
 
LONGSHOTS: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
By Gareth Evans
Work presented at the 53rd Oberhausen International Short Film Festival raises profound questions about the nature and role of the contemporary moving image
 
   
   
 
EDITORIAL
By Gareth Evans
WHAT MATTERS: Meaning in the Moving Image
 
   
   
 
FILMGRIMAGE: Witness Reports
By Sophie Mayer and Lady Vervaine
 
   
   
 
ATTENTION!: Here and Your Here
By Anna Lucas
 
   
   
 
STUDIO SPACE: The Feast Project
By Christy Johnson and Catherine Clinger
 
   
   
 
ANOTHER WAY OF SEEING: Strangeness of Seeing
By Nichola Bruce
 
   
   
 
ARTISTS' PAGES: Black Sun
By Gary Tarn
 
   
   
 
LOCATION, LOCATION: Londres, Bombay
By Patrick Keiller