For the first time in its history Vertigo has produced an issue that that has not been put onto paper, but has been produced as an electronic edition, on CD and online. This will be the first of the new quarterly Vertigo's annual electronic issues, which will go on sale every summer. The key additional feature in using this new format is that we can actually show some of the moving image work that we are engaging with. We also don't have space constraints on how long each article is - they are simply at the length at which we think they work best. We have recordings of discussions from Vertigo's recent events - a collaboration with Cahiers du cinema that we are now able to bring to a much wider audience. You will also have a chance try out new film criticism software 'Reframe', which allows clips from any DVD you have in your possession to be played alongside text or audio commentary - allowing critics, educators and anyone else who has an interest in closely commenting on a DVD to illustrate and pass on their understanding of the work to other people. The software is showcased in this issue using the new Cinema 16 American Short Films DVD.

The theme of the issue has also been inspired by this new version of Vertigo. On an abstract level, all media in some way is a encounter or confrontation between the viewer and another medium, another story and another perspective. Within the works featured in the magazine there is a less abstract critical perspective – confrontation of ideaologies; of the historical and political; of gender, culture, identity; of time, space and movement.

‘Confrontations’ is also a tongue-in-cheek gesture to the experimental nature of what we've done with this issue. You will be confronted with a magazine without any physical pages – just a circular piece of plastic with a hole in the middle, and the explanation above to say what it’s all about.

MA

This issue is dedicated to KB and everyone I've had the pleasure of working with at Vertigo - good night and good luck.

Image: Still from House, by Ben Rivers

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Summer / Autumn 2006

Volume 3 Issue 2

Editor: Metin Alsanjak

Multimedia Editor: Chris Lane

Cover Design: Will Hui

Production: Nancy Harrison

VERTIGO MAGAZINE TEAM

Managing Editor: Holly Aylett

Editor: Gareth Evans

Editorial Assistant: Pepe Baena

Publication Manager: Nancy Harrison

Marketing Co-ordinator: Peter Fraser

Website Developer: Gauthaman Ravindran

Intern: Annie Mae Rorke

Editorial Board:

Metin Alsanjak, Holly Aylett, Emilie Bickerton, George Clark, Michael Chanan, Gareth Evans, Gaylene Gould, James Leahy, Thessa Mooij, Hannah Patterson, Julian Petley

Advisory Network:

John Akomfrah, Asu Askoy, Yossi Bal, Gill Branston, Robert Chilcott, Kieron Corless, Don Coutts, Alain Fountain, Catherine Fowler, Lina Gopaul, Keith Griffiths, Sylvia Harvey, Judith Higginbottom, Asif Kapadia, Ruth Lingford, Sarah McCarthy, Martin McLoone, Robin Macpherson, Kevin Rockett, Keith Shiri, Sarah Turner

CD produced by Orbis Digital, Coatbridge, Scotland

With special thanks to:

Nancy Harrison, Jon Rexter Crawford, Chris Lane, Gauthaman Ravindran, Ben Rivers, Will Hui, all the hard work of the contributors, Holly Aylett, Gareth Evans, Yoram Allon, Natalie Brady, Margaret Dickinson, Pepe Baena, Ben Cook, Alex Bratt, Emilie Bickerton, Luke Morris, Tony Cryer, Katherine Bratt, Andy Townsend, Jill Reading, Zoe Flower, and the support of our funders, the Arts Council, UK Film Council and Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

Volumes 1 (issues 5-9 only), 2 and 3 of Vertigo are available from for £4.00 each, inc. postage.

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Cover Image: photo by Ben Rivers (see interviews and clips in this issue)