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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 by Dan Browne These frames are from an abandoned film, begun in 2006. My goal had been to create a ‘film of films’ that would merge a collage-based, found footage aesthetic with personal and autobiographical material, largely inspired by Jack Chambers’ The Hart…

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by Mike Mosher Inspired by a book, this is going to be a sentimental journey, where I tip my hat to great ladies once near, and some far away, yet who memorably caressed me with print and cinema. Beyond my…

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  Please note: No original text has been deployed in this cut-up treatise on William S. Burroughs’ political science of occupying tape.   Listen all you boards, syndicates and governments of the earth. And you powers behind what filth deals…

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         Figure. 1. Same window, same ladder, on different days and different sides of the window The technique of cutting on action to connect discontinuous spaces and times is one that has been employed in films as…

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Jesse Drew has recently explored the life and politics of Pete Seeger through a personal account of his experiences with the songwriter here: http://viewpointmag.com/2014/01/30/real-revolutionaries-carry-a-banjo/ Please also feel free to check out the thematically resonant recapping of the festival of (in)appropriation, screening on February…

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  PROCESSED FOOD, PROCESSED MEDIA There are a lot of parallels between late 20th Century food culture and media culture, which become more and more obvious to me as I continued to explore this subject. With food, it was taken…

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  Welcome to Issue 26! This time around, our contributors have formed a remarkably cohesive issue that sits at the intersection of radically different media, themes, and practices.  We encourage you to use this issue (and our Comments section) as…

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In the following article, Huckleberry Lain questions the impacts of gentrification on cinema and the exhibition space. Leslie Dreyer will likewise confront gentrification through the elucidation and exhibition of documented resistances to this same process within our local community  at…

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  Hermeneutics Russia / 2012 / 03ʼ15ʼʼ B&W / DV-PAL / 4:3 / Stereo This piece is a visual illustration of what hermeneutics is. With the cunning use of WWII footage it makes you believe that you are watching a…

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Early on in our artistic practice we became aware of a startling occurrence. People reacted differently to our work upon viewing it a second time. For instance, when I (Ruth) applied for the first art school in my hometown, Graz,…

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  We see a montage of various books in a dimly lit room. Soft, relaxing piano music plays while a heart-lurchingly handsome young man speed reads through dozens of books. Dawn. Will’s friends come to pick him up in a…

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This video was made at the beginning of the 2008 economic crash as a response to an end of a world power as well as the collective anxiety of the end of the Mayan calender. Layered underneath the ending credits…

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Communique for the Cube also screens on May 31st, 2014, as part of Other Cinema’s New Experimental Works program!   My favorite microcinema in the world, The Cube in Bristol, UK, issued a call to 70 of its former visiting artists to each…

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