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Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ), The - Artists’ Moving Image, Isolation and COVID-19, Sept 2020
Artists’ Moving Image, Isolation and COVID-19, Sept 2020
- Articles, Features, Reflections
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The Crown Letter roundtable discussion
Natacha Nisic recognized that the conditions of confinement created by the COVID pandemic and lockdown posed a threat to the visibility, exchange and experience of contemporary art, particularly of the work of women artists. Nisic invited women in her global network to contribute to the project and over time the network has expanded. Over 50 artists have now contributed to the publications and they maintain the online project collectively. As well as weekly publications, since the beginning The Crown Letter has hosted a weekly Salon for its contributors, where the artists exchange experiences, ideas and stories. In these times of confinement, where the effects of systemic inequality are felt across the globe, The Crown Letter harnesses the power of artistic exchange, collective energy, support and dialogue. As it approaches its first anniversary, some of the artists gathered at a salon to reflect on what The Crown Letter means to them.
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Peggy Ahwesh, Steve McQueen and Russell T. Davis: Reflections on the 1980s under lockdown
More LessIn lockdown as I finished my five-year project, on women experimental filmmakers from the 1970s and 1980s, I have been focusing on this past time that formed me. Watching films by artist/filmmakers that I love has helped to keep my anger at the present at bay. A parallel journey back in time has been playing out on TV via the high-profile voices of Steve McQueen and Russell T. Davis. Steve McQueen’s series, Small Axe pays tribute to the Black communities’ struggles, as the postwar era waned and the aggressively neo-liberal individualist world waxed. The anger and activism from an earlier period presciently planned for a 2020 screening speaks out at us from the TV, coinciding with Black Lives Matter, and begs the question of how exactly have things improved in the last 40 years? By contrast Russell T. Davis’ It’s a Sin, is a more sugar-coated dramatization of the 1980s in its treatment of the trauma of the AIDS generation and the impact of the disease on a small group of young gay men and allies in London. How do these different voices meet, mix and coalesce as both a vision from that era and a memory of that era?
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Temenos 2022
More LessOnce while speaking with art students in a class at the Vienna art academy, I listened to their fears for their future and their questions about how to continue, frequently mentioning their parents’ concern; and I thought how helpful it would be if they could experience the nature of the Peloponnese and the imaginative freedom that I associated to filmmaking and Greece. I continue to hope that the Temenos screenings might give a certain number of individuals an experience of freedom that comes from a temporary removal from one’s own environment and immersion in the different scale of time that Markopoulos’s Eniaios provides.
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- Reviews
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Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos, Lilya Kaganovsky, Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport (eds) (2019)
More LessReview of: Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos, Lilya Kaganovsky, Scott MacKenzie and Anna Westerstahl Stenport (eds) (2019)
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 384 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-25304-029-9, h/bk, $85.00
ISBN 978-0-25304-030-5, p/bk, $36.00
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New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics, and Documentary Theory, Dara Waldron (2018 h/bk, 2020 p/bk)
More LessReview of: New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics, and Documentary Theory, Dara Waldron (2018 h/bk, 2020 p/bk)
New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, 224 pp.,
ISBN 978-1-50132-249-5, h/bk, £95.00
ISBN 978-1-50132-250-1, p/bk, £28.99
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Displacements: Reading Space and Time in Moving Image Installations, Alison Butler (2019)
More LessReview of: Displacements: Reading Space and Time in Moving Image Installations, Alison Butler (2019)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 178 pp.,
ISBN 978-3-03030-461-4, h/bk, €62.39; eBook, €49.99
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Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia, Jonathan Walley (2020)
More LessReview of: Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia, Jonathan Walley (2020)
New York: Oxford University Press, 576 pp.,
ISBN: 978-0-19093-863-5, h/bk, £81.00
ISBN 978-0-19093-864-2, p/bk, £25.99
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Editorial
Authors: Michael Mazière and Lucy Reynolds
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