Editorial NECSUS by Toni Pape, Martine Beugnet, Greg de Cuir Jr, Judith Keilbach, Skadi Loist, Belén Vidal and Andrea Virginás Special section: #Cycles #Cycles: On circularity and recursivity in media culture by Toni Pape No more ego-spheres: An interview with Lydia Kallipoliti on ecological design by Toni Pape and Riley Gold Of sand and stone: Thick time, cyclicality, and Anthropocene poetics in Nomadland by Gert Jan Harkema Caught in the loops of digital agency panic: On NPCs and internet addicts by Jernej Markelj and Daniël de Zeeuw (Dis)orientation in net art: Disrupting the feedback loop of cybernetic subjectivities by Mihai Bacaran Cybernetic subjectivities on a loop: From video feedback to generative AI by Violaine Boutet de Monvel Rewind, recycle, revive! An investigation into nostalgia-driven sequel and requel practices in small European film industries: The case of Flanders by Atalya de Cock, Eduard Cuelenaere, Gertjan Willems, and Stijn Joye From still to moving images and vice versa: Analysing technological cycles and the use of AI to study film history by Beatriz Tadeo Fuica and Arthur Lezer Experimenting in circles: Agfa, amateur cinema, and the art of R&D by Miriam De Rosa and Andrea Mariani A genealogy of migrant organising by Germany’s Asiatische Deutsche: Presencing the Asian Film Festival Berlin by Feng-Mei Heberer
Audiovisual Essays: #Cycles Cycles of Labour: In the Metaverse, We Will Be Housewives by Veronika Hanáková, Martin Tremčinský, and Jiří Anger Split Screen as Hermeneutic Tool: Recursivity and Crosstalk in Better Call Saul by Nicolás Medina and Miklós Kiss Close Circuit by Tripot I foresee that I’m going to have known it by Vorozheikin Yevhen The Time-Loop as Game Mechanic, Narrative Device and Cycle of Systemic Racism by Daniel O’Brien
Features Voices from the debris: An interview with Mila Turajlić on unearthing anti-colonial solidarities by Carolyn Birdsall and Nadica Denić Surveillance, Resistance and the Politics of Love: On Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster by Cristóbal Escobar Creativity, Passion, and Community: The Rise of India’s Transnational Producers by Neha Bhatia
Festival Reviews edited by Marijke de Valck, Diane Burgess and Antoine Damiens Accessing Film Culture and Community at the 2023 Melbourne International Film Festival by Anna Debinski On the habitus of festival-going: Digital anxiety and urban aspects of post-COVID Berlinale by Minerva Campos Rabadán Inside the archive of feelings: Experiencing Il Cinema Ritrovato by Belén Vidal A Monumental Chronicle of ‘The Mother of All Film Festivals by Dina Iordanova
Book Reviews edited by Victoria Pastor-González and Patricia Nogueira Everyday Life and Mnemonic Gestures by Ana Sofia Almeida On Operational Images by Alba Gimenez
Exhibition Reviews edited by Miriam de Rosa and Annet Dekker How to Prevent Hair Loss, Kiat Kiat Projects by Lisa Marie Sneijder 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 by Susanne Østby Sæther Communities of Concern, Dora Garcia at M HKA Antwerp by Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans
Data Papers edited by Alexandra Schneider and Malte Hagener Public lantern lectures in the Netherlands 1880-1940: A dataset based on historical newspaper advertisements by Dulce da Rocha Gonçalves Screening the Financial Crisis: A case study for ontology-based film analytical video annotations by Jan-Hendrik Bakels, Matthias Grotkopp, Thomas J.J. Scherer, and Jasper Stratil
