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Festivals, Books, Conferences, Exhibitions

Scale, infrastructure, and extractivism: An interview with Lesia Vasylchenko and Istvan Virag on their works in New Visions. The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media

December 11, 2023/in Autumn 2023_#Cycles, Exhibition Reviews, Interviews, Reviews

In this interview, the Senior Curator of Photography and New Media at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter speaks with photographers and media artists Lesia Vasylchenko and Istvan Virag about their works commissioned for the New Visions triennial, presented at Henie Onstad in 2023. Vasylchenko and Virag explain how they work with contemporary image production and display technologies, such as synthetic aperture radar images and LED-screens and the perceptual politics associated with these technologies, as well as how they engage with organic materials as resources subject to extraction as well as material witnesses. The interview also addresses how the artists conceptually and practically tackle questions of image resolution and scale, and the artists’ extensive collaboration with scientific knowledge clusters and researchers.

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On Operational Images

December 11, 2023/in Autumn 2023_#Cycles, Book Reviews, Reviews

When speaking about operational images, the first definition of the term that comes to mind is the one proposed by Harun Farocki in Eye/Machine (2003), a series of installation works that traces a genealogy of the evolution of such images. Operational images are images produced by and for machines, which in most cases enable them […]

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Inside the archive of feelings: Experiencing Il Cinema Ritrovato

December 11, 2023/in Autumn 2023_#Cycles, Festival Reviews, Reviews

Proudly announcing on its website ‘thirty-seven years of emotions’, the 37th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato promised a gargantuan feast to those prepared to disengage themselves from the demands of everyday life during nine packed days. This year, the festival’s program boasted ‘470 films including 35mm, 16mm, restored masterpieces and hidden gems from all over […]

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How to Prevent Hair Loss, Kiat Kiat Projects

December 11, 2023/in Autumn 2023_#Cycles, Exhibition Reviews, Reviews

Lives nowadays are saturated with online clicks, daily newsletters, social media updates, and a 24-hour cycle of news streams. The online world is vast and the wheels never stop turning. So how do you adopt the internet as a medium to a curatorial purpose? This is one of the questions curators Arianna Mercado and Yuji […]

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Experiencing Cinema / Ephemeral Cinema

June 7, 2023/in Book Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2023_#Ports

This review examines two recent publications which explore cinema exhibition, alternative viewing practices, audience and reception studies. The books are María A Vélez-Serna’s Ephemeral Cinema Spaces: Stories of Reinvention, Resistance and Community (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) and Emma Pett’s Experiencing Cinema: Participatory Film Cultures, Immersive Media and the Experience Economy (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021). Both […]

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An infinite exhibition fills the nave: Laurent Grasso’s ANIMA

June 7, 2023/in Spring 2023_#Ports, Exhibition Reviews, Reviews

An infinite exhibition fills the nave: Laurent Grasso’s ANIMA             The world of analogies and meaning takes on its full scope, resonances prevail over impoverishing causality. Instead of being the sum of possessed objects, the world becomes the unity of all the spaces granted to the entities that populate it.   – Grégory Quenet, curator of ANIMA […]

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Havana Film Festival New York 2022: A cultural bridge emerging from COVID-19

June 7, 2023/in Spring 2023_#Ports, Festival Reviews, Reviews

The Havana Film Festival New York (HFFNY) is the city’s longest continuously running Latin American/US-Latino festival. In this review I examine the nuances of the festival’s 22nd offering from 3-10 November 2022, as well as its unique premise, making it a key space for over two decades of cultural encounter and negotiation. Additionally, I highlight […]

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Becoming Geological: Imagining an affirmative otherwise

June 7, 2023/in Exhibition Reviews, Reviews, Spring 2023_#Ports

The exhibition Becoming Geological (25 November 2022 – 8 January 2023), curated by Martin Howse and Florian Weigl, maps several earthly trajectories by which the technologically destabilised Anthropocene is offered alternative futures, affirmatively. Situated in V2_ Lab for Unstable Media, a location which was founded as an artists’ initiative in 1981, and which has become […]

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17th DocsMX: Returning to the streets and meeting with audiences

June 7, 2023/in Spring 2023_#Ports, Festival Reviews, Reviews

In person events, human contact, direct encounters with the protagonists are the keys to a film festival. We are still in a pandemic, let’s not forget, but we are already returning to theaters, to that dark but bright place that makes us feel so comfortable.[1] The introductory text for the 17th International Documentary Film Festival […]

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Arquivo em Cartaz: Archival film festivals amid old and new challenges

June 7, 2023/in Reviews, Festival Reviews, Spring 2023_#Ports

Created under the organization of Brazil’s National Archive in Rio de Janeiro, Arquivo em Cartaz[1] (2015-) is among the few festivals dedicated to audiovisual preservation in the national circuit.[2] Established as an annual event since 2015, the festival celebrated its 8th edition in November 2022 with the theme ‘ethnographic film – views on the world’,[3] […]

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The many stories of cinema and cinephilia in Pakistan

June 7, 2023/in Reviews, Book Reviews, Spring 2023_#Ports

In the area of South Asian film studies, Pakistani cinema has rarely been the subject of focused and dedicated scholarship. As such, Mushtaq Gazdar’s Pakistan Cinema 1947-1997 has remained the only historical study of Pakistani cinema, its disputed origins, and its evolution from the creation of Pakistan in 1947 until the late 20th century. In […]

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On #Materiality

December 13, 2022/in Autumn 2022_#Materiality, Festival Reviews, Reviews

The discussion of media often meanders between the way media objects are perceived as written texts, projected audiovisual messages, or recorded music on the one hand and material objects on the other. Materiality in the sense of physical matter is considered multi-sensory and in a direct relation to the perceiving body, traditionally – particularly in the arts – associated with processes of valorisation as in the term and concept of ‘aura’. But media studies have long established perspectives beyond simple notions of matter. Even light, sound, and energy have entered the discourse, and materiality can be traced in any and all understandings of media. This special section brings together some of the latest post-digital perspectives on the long-standing discussion of materiality in our ever-changing media landscapes. The contributions represent today’s broadness of the field and discourse, connecting media from their analogue pasts to their materially ambiguous futures.

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On greening film festivals: The environmental impact of film festivals and their future design and operation

December 13, 2022/in Reviews, Autumn 2022_#Materiality, Festival Reviews

This roundtable brings together several film festival organisers and scholars to compare notes on the general impact of film festivals on the environment and to anticipate future directions for greening the sector. The event was hosted by The Creative School Catalyst, Toronto Metropolitan University. This is an edited transcript of the roundtable that took place on 13 January 2022 via Zoom.

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The post-pandemic festival: Identity, crisis, and curation at Sheffield DocFest 2022

December 12, 2022/in Reviews, Autumn 2022_#Materiality, Festival Reviews

Sheffield DocFest, the UK’s largest documentary festival, returned this year for its first predominantly in-person edition following two years of pared back, online, and hybrid editions in 2020 and 2021. Returning in June 2022 as a six-day event comparable in size and scale to the 2019 festival, this year’s edition was framed in part as […]

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Embracing hybridity beyond the pandemic: The contrasting cases of PÖFF and SGIFF

December 12, 2022/in Reviews, Autumn 2022_#Materiality, Festival Reviews

Embracing hybridity beyond the pandemic: The contrasting cases of PÖFF and SGIFF Film festivals have developed to be hybrid multi-layered, ever-expanding complex events that include diverse activities, engage multiple stakeholders, serve various purposes[1] and take place in multiple and diverse places.[2] The outburst of the pandemic at the beginning of 2020 caused an unpredictable crisis […]

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