Features:
Early cinema, Sergei Eisenstein, and film culture today: An interview with Ian Christie on new directions in film history by Annie van den Oever and Malte Hagener
The playfulness of Ingmar Bergman: Screenwriting from notebooks to screenplays by Anna Sofia Rossholm
Handmade films and artist-run labs: The chemical sites of film’s counterculture by Rossella Catanese and Jussi Parikka
Border crossings: Serial figures and the evolution of media by Shane Denson and Ruth Mayer
Special section: #Mapping
edited by Giorgio Avezzù, Teresa Castro, and Giuseppe Fidotta
The exact shape of the world: Mapping and the media by Giorgio Avezzù, Teresa Castro, and Giuseppe Fidotta
The mapping of ‘500 Days of Summer’: A processual approach to cinematic cartography by Chris Lukinbeal
Earth networks: ‘The Human Surge’ and cognitive mapping by Tiago de Luca
Digital maps and fan discourse: Moving between heuristics and interpretation by Marta Boni
Embodied cartographies of the unscene: A feminist approach to (geo)visualising film and television production by Laura Sharp
Making the map speak: Indigenous animated cartographies as contrapuntal spatial representations by Lola Remy
Plus ultra: Coloniality and the mapping of American natureculture in the empire of Philip II by Adam Wickberg
Media mapping and oil extraction: A Louisiana story by Janet Walker
Festival reviews:
edited by Marijke de Valck and Skadi Loist
A brief study of film festivals in Mexico: Consumption and historical evolution 2010-2016 by Jacob Bañuelos and Juan Olmedo
The Dutch film festival landscape: A walk-through by Harry van Vliet
Evidentiary aesthetics: Landscapes of violence at RIDM 2017 by Patrick Smith
Exhibition reviews:
edited by Miriam de Rosa and Leo Goldsmith
Codes of conflux: Collaborations between human and computer in MoMa’s ‘Thinking Machines’ by Leo Goldsmith
Nothing stable under heaven at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art by Justin Ross Muchnick
Racial phantasmagoria: The demonisation of the other in Richard Mosse’s ‘Incoming’ by Diego Ramirez
Book reviews:
edited by Lavinia Brydon and Victoria Pastor-González
(Re)imagining African independence by Vicente Sanchez-Biosca
Form and feeling: Kinaesthetic Knowing / Artificial Darkness by Seth Barry Watter
Audiovisual essays:
edited by Miklós Kiss
Videographic scene analyses, part 2 by Miklós Kiss
Witnessing the western by Luís Azevedo
Marxism in ‘Metropolis’ by Greta Calaciura and Shant Bayramian
The l/song take in ‘Before Sunrise’ by Ian Garwood
Agent of chaos: Discontinuous editing in ‘The Dark Knight’ by Drew Morton
