Editorial NECSUS by Toni Pape, Martine Beugnet, Greg de Cuir Jr, Judith Keilbach, Skadi Loist, Belén Vidal and Andrea Virginás Special section: #Open edited by the NECS Open Scholarship Committee (Bregt Lameris, Miriam de Rosa, Victoria Pastor-González, Jeroen Sondervan) #Open: An Introduction by Bregt Lameris, Miriam de Rosa, Victoria Pastor-González, Jeroen Sondervan Open Scholarship: A Portfolio on Funding, Globalising and Enhancing by Jefferson Pooley, Eric Hoyt and Kelley Conway Navigating new horizons: Openness, blogs, and media studies by Josephine Diecke and Kai Matuszkiewicz Video essay, videographic criticism, polymedial essayism, polymodal essayism by Sureshkumar Sekar Introducing open montage: Material performativity in urban media configurations in space by Mel Jordan and Giorgia Rizzioli Openness as a creative principle: Home movies, found footage, and their second life in the documentary film Reconstruction of Occupation by Irena Řehořová Cooperation or conflict? Merging documentary filmmaking and oral history practices in The Eastside Project by Ted Fisher and Don Allan Mitchell Opening up science as a work: An international comparison of openness to society and openness of publication by Lucile Ottolini and Marianne Noel
Features Opening up, closing down: An interview with Lisa Parks on ‘media backends’ by Judith Keilbach and Linda Kopitz “I say! Neither a Whore nor a Saint”: Transgender memory, Spanish popular television, and media histories in Veneno by Anamarija Horvat Game engines: Optimising VFX, reshaping visual media by Tom Livingstone Queer bare lives: Melodramatic form and biopolitics in Michael Mayer’s Out in the Dark by Mingyuan Wan The environmental footprint of animated realism: An ecomaterialist exploration of contemporary digital animated documentaries by Cristina Formenti Becoming a Netflix nation: Extroversion, exportability, and visibility through a case study of Maestro in Blue by Georgia Aitaki
Festival Reviews: Virtual Reality edited by Marijke de Valck, Diane Burgess and Antoine Damiens The two sides of VR utopia by Da Ye Kim Why (film) festivals? Virtual reality experiences at a crossroads by Philippe Bédard On reaching and creating your audience: VR artist Nemo Vos on the role of film festivals by Marijke de Valck The future of the screen: Exploring Venice Immersive with Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac by Anja Boato
Book Reviews edited by Victoria Pastor-González and Patricia Nogueira Formalism expanded by Byron Davies On Distant Viewing by Nicole Braida The Sensorium of The Drone and Communities by Amy Gaeta
Exhibition Reviews edited by Miriam de Rosa and Annet Dekker Insomnolence: The Sociability of Sleep at Agora Hydro-Québec by Toni Pape Liquid Spaces: Politics of the Screen, an interview with Doreen A. Ríos by Annet Dekker
Audiovisual Essays: Sitting, Standing, Dancing with our Screens edited by Chloé Galibert-Laîné Sitting, standing, dancing with our screens: An introduction by Chloé Galibert-Laîné Twisties! by Alice Lenay and Théophile Gay-Mazas Xena’s Body by Occitane Lacurie Meeting/Eating Meat Joy by Chloé Lavalette the look for sit down by Nicolas Bailleul CORPS CANAPE by morgane frund
Data Papers edited by Alexandra Schneider and Malte Hagener Archiving Europe: Unveiling the visual world through stock shots in French television (2001-2021) by Shiming Shen
