Including essays about Madeline Anderson, Lorenza Mazzetti, Laure Prouvost, Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong, Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor, Susan Sontag's filmmaking career, Storm De Hirsch, Zia Anger, Ashley Connor, Bruce LaBruce, Pina Bausch/Chantal Akerman, Magdalena Montezuma, Rebecca Horn, Anne Charlotte Robertson, Zhu Shengze, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Maya Da-Rin, Camila Freitas, Gong Li
An in-depth Afro-Brazilian roundtable with Tatiana Carvalho Costa, Janaina Oliveira, Everlane Moraes and Kênia Freitas; sections on Kira Muratova and Anne Charlotte Robertson; essays on subtitles, diffractive cinemas, ecocriticism/the anthropocene, literary adaptations, intimacy coordinators, strike on film, representing the internet,
Interviews with Betzy Bromberg, Zia Anger & Ashley Connor, Brett Story, Amandine Gay, Andrea Luka Zimmerman & Therese Henningsen
Experimental criticism from Kathryn Scanlan, Jen Calleja and Elissa Suh
Table of Contents
The Last Good Male Film Critic – Missouri Williams On Lorenza Mazzetti – Francesca Massarenti
OTHERWISE “No Legibility for Some, Illegibility for All”: Subtitles, Captions, and the Pursuit of a Comprehensive World – Sasha Kohan Towards a diffractive cinema: The video works of Amanda Baggs – Julián Gatto
Otherwise Notes on Being Perennially In-Between – Therese Henningsen and Andrea Luka Zimmerman
ANTHROPOCENE Towards an Embodied Ecocriticism: On Laure Prouvost’s ‘Shed a Light’ (2018) – Adina Glickstein A Sense of the Sublime: In Conversation with Brett Story – Amanda Barbour Dreamscapes and Ethnospheres: Ben Rivers and Anocha Suwichakornpong’s KRABI, 2562 (2019) – Phoebe Campion
AGNIESZKA HOLLAND’S SPOOR / OLGA TOKARCZUK On Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor and the di culties of translating between worlds – Lauren Collee How Do You Solve a Problem like Duszejko?: On Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor – Missouri Williams
Imagined Adaptations – Elissa Suh Six Men, a Yacht, and an Erection: Troubled Masculinities in Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Chevalier – Ruby Mastrodimos A Critic Between Sontag’s Cannibals – Bessie Rubinstein Oubliette – Jen Calleja
My Own Lens and Skin: Betzy Bromberg on Personal Filmmaking – Kathryn Siegel Peyote Queen: Trance, Ritual and the Female Body in the short lms of Storm De Hirsch – Sophia Satchell-Baeza
ZIA ANGER AND ASHLEY CONNOR The Creative Afterlife: Zia Anger’s My First Film – Rachel Stone Zia Anger and Ashley Connor in conversation Ashley Connor and the Cinematography of Teenage Female Identity – Nicole Davis
Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Deuce, & the Rise of Intimacy Coordinators – EC Flamming
REBELLIONS Cumming Back to Life – The Horrors of Heteronormativity in Bruce LaBruce’s Otto; or, Up with Dead People – Vivien Cahn Sleepwalking Lessons: Repetition and Insistence in Chantal Akerman and Pina Bausch – Zara Joan Miller For Magdalena Montezuma – Julia Sirmons Desirous dreams: the feminist erotics of Rebecca Horn’s Berlin Exercises in Nine Parts (1974-5) – Evelyn Whorrall-Campbell
ANNE CHARLOTTE ROBERTSON Describing the world otherwise: Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Five Year Diary – Anjo-marí Gouws A Durational Reading of Anne Charlotte Robertson’s Five Year Diary – Kathryn Scanlan
FORMS OF DISCONTENT Strike on Film: Madeline Anderson’s ‘I Am Somebody’ – Mimi Howard Mr Zuckerberg, Tear Down My Wall: Karim Amer & Jehane Noujaim’s The Great Hack and Zhu Shengze’s Present.Perfect – Rebecca Liu Sense-Making From The Ground Up: On The Films of Beatriz Santiago Muñoz – Gazelle Mba Interview with Director Amandine Gay on her Film Speak Up (Ouvrir la voix) – Cassie da Costa
BRAZILIAN CINEMAS The Field of Vision: Maya Da-Rin and Camila Freitas – Laura Davis In Conversation With Maya Da-Rin – Beatrice Loayza Towards a Quilombo Cinema: A conversation between Everlane Moraes, Janaína Oliveira, Kênia Freitas, and Tatiana Carvalho Costa – Tr. Lillian Maguire and Natalia Davies.
KIRA MURATOVA Unrequited Passions: Notes on Kira Muratova Muratova – Lizzie Homersham p222 Queer Bloc: Situations, Generations, Nations – Lina Žigelytė No Such Thing As Society?: Kira Muratova’s Redemptive Materialism – Georgie Carr
Gong Li’s Rebellious Transformations – Beatrice Loayza