Vertigo Magazine - Vol. 4 No.3 Spring / Summer 2009

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AGENCY: MediCinema

MAKERS: Missing, Camera, Action

OVERVIEWED: The Precarious Life of the Palestinian Image

EVENT HORIZON: The New Black

CONDITION CRITICAL: A Shrug of the Shoulders

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Vol. 4 No.3 Spring / Summer 2009







STORIES OF THE EYE: <...	MAKERS: Only Connect	SECOND RUN: Rabbit Un...
Hackney and the alchemical impulse	Eva Weber’s beautifully attentive documentaries capture the hidden humanity of overlooked spaces.	Celia fuses childhood and cold war paranoia with a dreamlike precision


	CONDITION CRITICAL: A Shrug of the Shoulders By Graeme Hobbs Marcel L’Herbier’s L’Argent


	EVENT HORIZON: The New Black By Karen Alexander Towards a renaissance in black film* exhibition


	BEYOND THE FRAME: Mobile Men By Rob Dennis Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s migrant


	LEFTFIELD: HOTEL DIARIES By Ian Christie John Smith makes room for reflection


	OVERVIEWED: The Precarious Life of the Palestinian Image By Nick Denes Reflections in the Wake of Gaza


	DOCUMENT!: A Way of Not Losing Heart By Maysoon Pachachi Independent image-making in occupied Iraq


	BEYOND THE FRAME: A Place Weeping By John Berger Gaza and the myriad abuses


	STORIES OF THE EYE: Duality of Light By Wendy Walker Australian artist film-maker Lynette Wallworth is viewed on home ground


	BORDERLAND DISPATCHES: Sleep Furiously By Graeme Hobbs A singular film essay hymns a place and a way of life in a manner both elegiac and celebratory


	CONDITION CRITICAL: The Bigger Picture By Jason Wood Mark Cousins travels far beyond the predictable frame


	MAKERS: Missing, Camera, Action By Jerry White Helen and the longer take


	INFLUENTIAL: RAIDING THE ICEBOX By Dai Vaughan Reflections on Twentieth-century Culture


	EVENT HORIZON: Liminal By Chris Lane A Question of Position


	MANIFESTO: The Cinematic Guerrilla By the Celluloid Liberation Front (aka ‘the blind dialectic of vision’)


	SCENE AND HEARD: THE EMPIRE’S NEW CLOTHES By Sophie Mayer Sally Potter’s RAGE


	LETTER FROM....Tehran: Feel the Power, Experience the Pleasure By Vahid Valizadeh Contemporary Tehran and its visual culture


	LOCATION, LOCATION: Optimism at Point of No Return By Gareth Evans Dan Walwin and the implications of landscape


	ARTS AND CRAFTS: Visible Thresholds By Davina Quinlivan The Imaginary Cinema of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller


	AUTEUR, AUTEUR: Everywhere Is Different and Everywhere Is the Same By Robert Chilcott Frederick Wiseman and the making of the world


	LONGSHOTS: THESE ARE THE TIMES: Episodes from a Life of Thomas Paine By Trevor Griffiths An Original Screenplay


	EXHIBITIONISM: In the Perceptible Field By Catherine Elwes A Robert Cahen retrospective shows the journeys video can make


	ROAD MOVIES: My Father’s Country By Maryclare Foá Figuring Landscapes stirs up some difficult memories


	STOREFRONT: Folk Routes By Adam Pugh In dark times, Norwich’s Aurora festival continues to offer illumination.


	EYEWITNESS: Paradoxes of Peace By Nicholas Mosley Or The Presence of Infinity


	FOCUS: The Man From London By Dai Vaughan Notes after the event


	OPEN SOURCE: Writing as Magic in London in Its Summer By Kathy Acker Iain Sinclair and the crafting of place


	MORTALITIES: When Faces Counted Most By Noah Isenberg Detour’s Ann Savage played feral femmes with a skill and energy we won’t see again.


	REVIEWED: Betrayed By Rita Hayworth By James Norton Manuel Puig’s debut novel delivers the most playful word on cinema


	AGENCY: MediCinema By Nancy Harrison The healing power of cinema has rarely been better demonstrated.


	MAKERS: A New Way Must Be Seen By Sukhdev Sandhu Iranian-American film-maker Ramin Bahrani finds the hope of life in migrant experience


	OPEN SOURCE: Amytis Yearns for Ecbatana By Vaughan Pilikian Field Recordings from the Hanging Gardens of Babylon


	SPECULATIONS: IN THE ROOM By Chris Petit LOST CINEMA, POST-CINEMA, POST-TRAUMATIC CINEMA


	LOCATION, LOCATION: AT RISK OF INTERMENT By Will Stone WG Sebald in Terezin and Breendonk


	ANOTHER WAY OF SEEING: I Wanted By Roque Dalton


	ARTIST'S PAGES: A Walk in Palestine By Emile Ashrawi with Raja Shehadeh


	STUDIO SPACE: Kino Korresponence By Ken McMullen


	SITE SPECIFIC: Blind Spot By Lucy Reynolds Judy Price and metaphors of vision in Israel and Palestine