Vertigo Magazine - Vol. 3 No.8 Winter / Spring 2008

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Vol. 3 No.8 Winter / Spring 2008

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.8 Winter / Spring 2008





MAKERS: Without a Mask		ATTENTION: Just Do It		MAKERS: Berlin, Spain
Liv Ullmann in conversation: San Sebastian 2007		Award-winning debut feature The Inheritance takes to the road		Lou Reed’s legendary album is finally performed and filmed by Julian Schnabel


	BEYOND THE FRAME: Disreputable Behaviour By May Adadol Ingawanij The Hidden Politics of the Thai Film Act


	RECLAIMED: The Last Words of Antonin Artaud By Stephen Barber On the cinematic dimension of the envisioned final notebooks


	AGENCY: Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves By Rachel Millward The Birds Eye View Film Festival is spreading its wings


	AUTEUR, AUTEUR: An Infinite Amount of Choices By Jason Wood Wim Wenders and a life inside cinema


	FOCUS: Tributaries of Surprise By Nigel Morris The late Ingmar Bergman and other auteurs are more active in Steven Spielberg’s cinematic imagination than one might think


	INFLUENTIAL: Interior: Night By the Brothers Quay Eight decades on, Victor Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage retains its chilling charge


	ANIMATED: To See, If Only Once By James Rose Eurydice - She, So Beloved…A new Installation by the Quay Brothers. In their latest work, the internationally renowed Quay Brothers respond to Monteverdi’s opera Orfeo to produce a dark and poignant installation.


	MANIFESTO: ATHANASIAN OATH - Under the magic lantern By Fernando Birri WORDS SPRINKLED LIKE SEEDS FOR THE YOUNG TELECINEASTES THAT GRADUATE TODAY


	LONGSHOTS: The History That Keeps Coming Back Interview by Antoine de Baecque Heartbeat Detector and the making of an ethical cinema


	CONDITION CRITICAL: Filmosophy By Tereza Hadravova Re-imagining the moving image


	SPECULATIONS: Andrei’s Childhood By James Norton Andrei Tarkovsky in conversation about the legacy of his father


	FOCUS: The Sins of the Father By James Norton Andrei Zvyagintsev in conversation


	SCENE AND HEARD: Re-store, Re-mix, Re-play By Julia Knight Moving image culture in the digital era


	ANOTHER WAY OF SEEING: Subversion! By Nicola Woodham Underground cinema gets a going over in Duncan Reekie’s ‘definitive’ history


	MAKERS: Chaos Theories By Mar Diestro-Dopido Julio Médem’s complex vision of a dynamic and insurgent femininity reaches across history in his new film


	MAKERS: Hard Currencies By Robert Chilcott 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days offers an overwhelming vision of contemporary life that speaks to far beyond its Romanian locale


	DOCUMENT: Fires Were Started By Jerry White Aleksandr Sokurov deploys video to unique and meaningful effect in his singular oeuvre


	EXHIBITIONISM: Truth 24 Times a Second By James Norton DocLisboa 2007


	SITE SPECIFIC: S.T.A.L.K.E.R. or Stalker By Daniel Stuyck Tarkovsky’s Stalker is given a makeover for the cross-media marketplace


	OVERVIEWED: The Image and the Witness By Frances Guerin and Roger Hallas Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture


	OPEN SOURCE: Mondo Jodo By Ben Cobb Anarchy and Alchemy: The Films of Alejandro Jodorowsky


	ROAD MOVIES: A Winter’s Tale By Graeme Hobbs A new Iranian film speaks beautifully about the perennial concerns of migration, work, and companionship


	EVENT HORIZON: From Tangiers to Tehran By James Neil Cinema, Women and the Middle East


	EVENT HORIZON: KINOTEKA By Nancy Harrison Notes towards London’s Sixth Polish Film Festival


	LETTER FROM...Pécs By Steven Yates New Waves from the East


	SCENE AND HEARD: Screaming Queens By Gareth Buckell The little known 1960s trans-gender resistance to San Francisco police and social oppression is celebrated in an important testimonial documentary


	LOCATION, LOCATION: Germany in Autumn By Pepe Petos Two very distinctive German festivals profile fascinating documentary and fiction work by emergent makers


	LETTER FROM... Fort William: Remote Digital Enlightenment By Norrie Maclaren A seasonal diary from the Highlands & Island: CROFT DIGITAL CINEMA


	REVIEWED: Underground, Overground By Philip Ilson Omsk and tank: stories of our times


	REVIEWED: Genteel, Accessible, Revolutionary By Roger Luckhurst Patrick Keiller’s ‘The City of the Future’ recovers Victorian urban space from the amber of the archive


	ATTENTION: High Hopes By Jon Sanders Low Tide offers a radical template for a revived British Auteur cinema


	MANIFESTO: The Belgrade Manifesto 2007 By Jon Sanders and Nora Hoppe The Belgrade Manifesto was presented by Jon Sanders and Nora Hoppe and discussed in open forum at the Belgrade Festival of Auteur Film on Sunday 2nd December 2007


	FOCUS: On Being Paulette By Dai Vaughan Reflections on Jeux interdits


	STUDIO SPACE: Work in Progress By Ben Rivers Ah, Liberty! On the Origin of Species


	ARTISTS' PAGES: Chartres Cathedral By Tereza Stehliková


	STORIES OF THE EYE: Irish Art Now By Nick Stewart


	BEYOND THE FRAME: Cultural Policy Moves Centre Stage By Holly Aylett UK Ratifies the Unesco Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions


	EDITORIAL: What Is To Be Done: The Ways We Live Now By Gareth Evans