by Cristina Álvarez López & Adrian Martin The audiovisual essay is not a strict genre or a delimited form – it is the name for a burgeoning field of inquiry, research, and experimentation within academia and also beyond it; the expression of critical, analytical, and theoretical work using the resources of audiovisuality – images and […]
The Melbourne International Film Festival has commissioned a video essay series by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López titled Paratheatre – Plays Without Stages. This commission coincides with the festival’s special screening of Jacques Rivette’s 13-hour Out 1 – Noli me tangere (1971). Martin and Álvarez López have also published a written text-based essay on Paratheatre, […]
A call has been published for the 3rd Alternative Film/Video Research Forum, hosted at the festival Alternative Film/Video in Belgrade. The festival runs from 9-13 December 2014 and the research forum will be held on 11 December 2014. The organizing theme this year for both the festival and the research forum will be video art. […]
The esteemed German film and video artist Harun Farocki has passed away at the age of 70. His formidable career in cinema began in the 1960s and included work as a journal editor and a professor. Farocki’s works of art, whether in the cinema, the gallery, or other settings, were often radical in form and […]
NECSUS managing editor Greg de Cuir, Jr curated the program Avant-Noir which will be presented at the ICA Artists’ Film Biennial in London on 5 July 2014. Avant-Noir surveys the work of contemporary film and video artists who are engaged with Africa and the African Diaspora. Featured artists include Kevin Jerome Everson, Christopher Harris, Akosua […]
Video essayists Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López will develop and edit a new video essay section for NECSUS, to debut in the Autumn 2014 issue. The co-editors plan to publish one video essay per issue along with an editorial that positions the work within the burgeoning field. Martin participated in a workshop on videographic […]
The exhibition Fassbinder – NOW: Film and Video Art was installed at the Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt from 30 October 2013 to 1 June 2014. It juxtaposed excerpts from films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) with works of contemporary film and video art by Tom Geens, Runa Islam, Maryam Jafri, Jesper Just, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem […]
If in essence conceptually at odds, the work of Daniela de Paulis, José Biscaya, and my own artworks are linked by a conscious choice for a precarious aesthetic where medium-specific traces are present as form of content. I have chosen these specific images for the NECSUS homepage slideshow to provide a sample view of how […]
The 2nd Alternative Film/Video Research Forum will take place on 12 December 2013 at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade. The forum is a gathering of critics, curators, theoreticians, and practitioners who are concerned with researching and writing on alternative forms of moving image culture. The organising theme for this edition of the forum is ‘fragmentation’. Presenters and […]
by Hanna B. Hölling Introduction Standing amidst the lively garden of the campus of the University of California, San Diego, I am looking at the many television sets, Buddhas, and elements of various electronic devices scattered around. As the first outdoor ensemble of the Korean video artist Nam June Paik (1932-2006), the installation Something Pacific […]
After the success of the 1st Alternative Film/Video Research Forum in 2012, which featured such notable participants as Dirk de Bruyn, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, and others, we are now organizing the second edition of the forum at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade 2013. This one-day event (12 December) running concurrently with the festival will gather a group […]
In struggles for political and cultural recognition many Indigenous groups employ visual media to make their concerns heard. Amongst these various channels for media activism are Indigenous film festivals which, in the words of festival coordinator Amalia Cόrdova, work to convey ‘a sense of solidarity with Indigenous struggles’.[1] Cόrdova’s essay on Indigenous film festivals appears […]
The observer must become a participant, because that is the only way he can have the double experience of being the observer, and being the observed. – Marina Abramović[1] I made an advance booking in order to participate in Marina Abramović’s ‘performance’, to experience first-hand The Abramović Method: the special project the famous Serbian artist […]
Alternative Film/Video Belgrade began as a festival of Yugoslav alternative film and video production, with the aim to document and define trends in film theory as well as to identify the values and new creative possibilities in the field. The themes of the festival often set a mandate for exploring various aspects of the term […]
Martine Beugnet
University of Paris 7 Diderot
Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade
Ilona Hongisto
University of Helsinki
Judith Keilbach
Universiteit Utrecht
Skadi Loist
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Toni Pape
University of Amsterdam
Maria A. Velez-Serna
University of Stirling
Andrea Virginás
Babeș-Bolyai University
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