CINEMAS OF RESISTANCE Smyth Brothers: NEWS FROM THE SUN, 16mm in-camera edit, 3 min, 2017. An apocalyptic narrative unfolds through the words of The Sun, a British tabloid created by media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Four thousand single frames were exposed,…

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by Molly Hankwitz Microcinemas, as artistic social networks, guerrilla experimental spaces of resistance to dominant media, and for an intimate expression of cinema are of great personal interest to me. I ran a microcinema in Brisbane, Australia for ten weeks…

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by Marc Olmsted via GIPHY   In 1979, film critic Robin Wood collected his essays on the horror films of that time and called his book American Nightmare.  His thesis examined how the traditional horror film enacted the Freudian “return…

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by Joseph Dwyer Scenarios of worker and student strikes, mass protest, and general dissent became common sights in European cinema surrounding the international political unrest of 1968. Jean-Luc Godard directed La Chinoise and Weekend, both 1967. Pier Paolo Pasolini took…

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by Anna Spence   From the murky depths of blackness appears  Max Headroom, floating to the surface. Suddenly, his decayed visage snaps into place where it always should have been: on screen. Out of practice, it takes him a moment…

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by Dan Browne I would like to provide a brief sketch of a concept I am calling ‘the fragile image’. I feel this could be of use in today’s climate of intensely politicized communication, as it resists the urge towards…

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by Gerry Fialka and Will Nediger   Like Craig Baldwin, Raoul Peck incites new questions to ponder with challenging juxtapositions like the lovely song Fascination (from Billy Wilder’s Love In The Afternoon) with footage of Rodney King’s beating. James Baldwin…

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by Rick Prelinger [originally delivered 2016-11-19 at Other Cinema, revised 2017-2]   We collected more We collected in new ways Now it is time to say why we collect   You should all have copies of Brecht’s essay “Telling the…

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  OtherZine #31, Fall 2016 Issue will be published the first week of September! This issue, OtherZine #31 is especially interested in a cinema of ideas—of generative proposals, as in speculative futures–and also in analysis and deconstruction, and how these…

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by Kathleen Quillian with contributions from Timeless Motion artists’: Antonella Bonfanti, Paul Clipson, Keith Evans, Kerry Laitala, Jeanne Liotta, Scott Stark and Mark Wilson. Timeless Motion is a gallery exhibition featuring cinematic installations by seven experimental moving image artists that…

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by Bernard Roddy Standing before his pails of tints and toner, Phil Hoffman addresses 10 or 12 participants of his hand-processing weekend at Double Negative Darkroom in Hackney, London (Professional Practice: LUX Film Farm, June 20 and 21, 2015). He…

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by Evie Salmon Between 2003 and 2009 the writer and academic James Riley ran Fleapit, a one-man microcinema that specialized in off-beat films. He had no venue, no funding and no regular schedule. Instead, the ‘cinema’ was housed in the…

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 “Open” by Kelly Gallagher

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by Sara Bonaventura   MATERIAL CULTURE Put the eye under the control of touch. —Tatlin Herewith I am presenting a short I filmed years ago, Moonbow thief, which was recently premiered in New York Anthology Film Archives, New Filmmakers section.…

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