In The Ecological Thought, Timothy Morton remarks that ecology isn’t just about global warming, recycling and solar power – and also not just to do with everyday relationships between humans and non-humans. It has to do with love, loss, despair, and compassion. (…) It has to do with capitalism and with what might exist after […]
The Media City Film Festival, an international festival for film and video art, is moving online with a new exhibition space: In the “Dark Dark Gallery”, filmmakers, curators and artists explore the connections between concepts and themes and the history of experimental cinema and contemporary moving image art. The inaugural show ‘Radical Acts of Care’, […]
The xapiri are the images of the yarori ancestors who turned into animals in the beginning of time. This is their real name. You call them ‘spirits’, [sic] but they are other. They came into existence when the forest was still young. The shaman elders have always made them dance and we continue to do […]
On 12 January 2020 the exhibition Time Machine: Cinematic Temporalities opened in the Palazzo del Governatore in Parma. Commissioned by the city’s Department of Culture led by the film studies scholar Michele Guerra and conceived as part of the cultural program for Parma 2020 Italian Capital of Culture, this exhibition offers a transmedial and media-archaeological […]
The Eye Film Museum Amsterdam has announced the new date for the previously postponed solo exhibition of work by Chantal Akerman: ‘Chantal Akerman: Passages’, organized in collaboration with the Chantal Akerman Foundation & Marian Goodman Gallery Paris, London, New York, will be open from 1 June – 30 August 2020. The exhibition features eight of […]
One must imagine Béla Tarr busy. Even though he has repeatedly insisted on the fact that he considers himself retired – at least as a director of feature films[1] – he has not stopped working since the release of The Turin Horse (2011). Currently, he is preparing a book project;[2] between 2013 and 2017 he […]
This year’s gay pride celebrations were particularly important as both community-based groups and official institutions organised various symposiums, exhibitions, and festivals to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall riots – an event often credited as the birth of the gay political movement. In Europe, several municipalities and official institutions capitalised on this anniversary and […]
Upon entering the exhibition Blackout in Rotterdam’s Kunsthal it took a few moments to adjust one’s eyes to the darkness. Rather than a typical white cube of a museum or gallery space, the exhibition instead filled a cavernous space marked predominantly by black walls and low light. Within the darkness, in the space’s various enclaves, […]
Cultural theorist Raymond Williams, in his now canonical text Ideas around Nature, makes the following remark: ‘A considerable part of what we call the natural landscape … is the product of human design and human labour, and in admiring it as natural it matters very much whether we suppress the fact of labour or acknowledge […]
Rana Sadik is one of the few non-native art collectors who creates and funds private initiatives like art-showcases and art-participatory scholarships towards education, conferences, workshops, and exhibitions in Kuwait. She provides participants with a comprehensive cultural and learning experience. Through art, she addresses territorial contraventions based on politics. The works in her intervention allude to […]
There is an eerie familiarity visible in the photographs of office workers’ faces installed in the middle of Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959-1989, an exhibition that was presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City this past winter. It is a mix of strange affects we might […]
At its best, it is carefully-constructed chaos. At its worst, it is equally chaotic but less carefully constructed. Nothing Stable under Heaven (https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/nothing-stable-under-heaven/) is an exhibition that bombards you from all angles as it forces you to juggle different and sometimes jumbled social issues and themes. Running at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art […]
Richard Mosse’s Incoming (2014-17) is a large-scale video installation mapping the flow of refugees displaced by the Syrian Civil War, shown last spring at the National Gallery of Victoria’s Triennial in Melbourne, Australia. The National Gallery is one of the largest museums in the country and its inaugural Triennial seeks to survey the international world […]
From 19 September 2018 to 6 January 2019, the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels hosts an exhibition on the French filmmaker Chris Marker (1921-2012), titled Memories of the Future. The exhibition is set up in collaboration with La Cinémathèque Française. Described by the director Alain Resnais as ‘the prototype of the twenty-first-century man’, […]
The discussions on the relationship between photography and film have for a long time been centred on stillness and duration. The two oldest of the so-called new media seemed settled in binary oppositions, as it was either the photograph’s death portrait or the motion picture’s vital progression. Ice or fire, as Peter Wollen aptly proclaimed.[1] […]
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Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Malte Hagener
Philipps-University Marburg
Skadi Loist
Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Francesco Pitassio
University of Udine
Belén Vidal
King’s College London