Another Gaze is seeking submissions for its fifth print issue, to be published this autumn.
Due to the pandemic we have decided to postpone our Japan issue to early next year so that Issue 05 will contain a set of responses to the current moment. While we will consider nuanced essays on ‘virality’, ‘contagion’ and ‘isolation’, we are more interested in writing that explores the problems the pandemic has thrown into stark relief, such as the inadequacies or inequalities of existing social, political and economic structures as well as pitches that investigate alternative models of care and posit possible futures. All proposed writing should approach these themes through a consideration of how they are reflected in time-based media or contemporary film culture. We believe that capital, disability, race and sexuality are feminist issues and as such we welcome texts relating to filmmakers of all genders.
We’re open to all forms of writing from all kinds of writers and would be pleased to publish more experimental writing. The writing we publish is thorough and research-based but not opaque in style or academic in form. We are particularly, though not exclusively, interested in the following subject areas for our fifth issue:
The state of contemporary film culture:
Labour and film exhibition · Shuttered cinemas · Intimacy in the auditorium/what a distanced cinema might look like · The coronavirus canon · Comfort or replication? · Pandemic ‘Film Twitter’ · Criticism vs. content · Ideas of contemporaneity · What does it mean not to have a contemporary film culture? · Assemblages vs. intersectionality · Curating & power · Alternative models of distribution · Streaming · Emphasis on artists to share work for free · Online film events · Streaming video art · What does accessibility mean and is it the right term? · Can geographical privilege ever be erased?
Interior/Exterior:
Ideas of productivity and routine · Being permanently online / the abstract nature of online space · Remoteness and proximity · No escape · Phone calls & intimacy · Insomnia · Strange dreams · Exhaustion · Stasis · The nuclear family: ‘capsules’, ‘cells’ · Domestic violence · Loneliness / alienation · Windows · Watching strangers · OCD / compulsion · Eating / comfort in food / cooking shows
When is the ‘alternative’ simply reproducing the status quo on a smaller scale? · For whom is quarantine/isolation a retreat? · ‘False universals’ · Disabled artists/those whose requirements have previously been ignored and are now the norm · Public health · Rent / landlords · Small / family businesses on film · Strikes · Sex work · The news cycle / statistics / data · Technofascism · Propaganda filmmaking · Ghostly cityscapes · Cities in flux / new psychogeographies · The space of the car · The commute · The hospital on film · In the kingdom of the sick · Care workers / at-risk workers / frontline workers · Prisons · State-sanctioned cleansing · Every nation for itself · Dictators · Police / the police state · Protests · Statues
Apocalypse / fertility · Contagion · Ecofascism · Poisoned worlds · The sudden appearance of a new language (“self-isolation”, “confinement”, “shielding” etc) / new languages and lexicon on film
Alternative models:
Abolition feminism · Bedroom cinemas / domestic cinema · TikTok · Nudes / auto-eroticism / sexting / prolonged or drawn-out desire · New relationships to time and duration · Collaborative / cooperative visions · Mutual aid · Afrofuturism · “Nature” · Growing things / cultivation / nurturing · Post-work
We are seeking essays and ‘in memoriam’ pieces on women in film who have died of the virus or during the virus period, including:
Sarah Maldoror, Hélène Châtelain, Lucia Bosè, Marion Hänsel, Lynn Shelton
We are able to pay a small fee for successful submissions. Please send a pitch (300 words max) along with two previous writing samples (PDF or Word document) and a short proposed bibliography relating to your pitch to editorial at another gaze dot com by Sunday 21 June at midnight BST. We will be commissioning as we go so please do not hesitate to send your pitch before the deadline. If you are a writer who prefers to be commissioned, please send a list of your interests along with two writing samples. The maximum word count for final submission is 4,000 words.
Thank you,
Daniella Shreir & Missouri Williams