‘Nothing but defeats’: Fassbinder beyond fragments
Before I began reading Ian Penman’s Fassbinder A Thousand Mirrors, I wondered how I might have gone about writing about…
Essays
Alternative Biographies: The Lives of Artworks in Hanka Włodarczyk’s “Ślad”
In the opening moments of Hanka Włodarczyk’s film Ślad (1976), the Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow (1926–1973) takes a hammer and…
The Lesbian Allure and Colonial Unconscious of Todd Field’s Tár
Tár begins with the sounds of unseen forest, a buzz of insects and birdcalls that backs the voice of Shipibo-Conibo…
Twenty-Eight Portraits of Linda Manz (1961–2020)
No. 1 She was born August 20, 1961, in Manhattan. She died August 14, 2020, in Palmdale, California. She was…
Inside the Dream: Infant observation during the pandemic and the screen as psychic portal
NB: this essay was written in early 2021 and was originally published in Another Gaze 05. We can think of the…
The Legacies of Sarah Maldoror (1929–2020): A Roundtable Discussion
On 13 April 2020, the political activist, theatre maker and filmmaker Sarah Maldoror died following complications from coronavirus. She was…
The End of Joachim Trier’s “Oslo Trilogy”; The End of Art and Community
Joachim Trier’s “Oslo Trilogy” – Reprise (2006), Oslo, 31 August (2011) and The Worst Person in the World (2021) – wants…
“Agnes & Perfection” by Lizzie Borden
It was the seventies. I was a young and untested art critic when John Coplans, then editor of Artforum, asked…
Kira Muratova’s Queer Bloc: Situations, Generations, Nations
None of the worlds belonging to distinct characters can be universal and dominate the worlds of other characters. —Kira Muratova,…
Fall Into The Centre Of The Earth And Deal With Yourself: On Sadie Benning’s Video Diaries (1989-1990)
James Wickstead designed the Fischer-Price PXL Pixelvision, one of a small number of starter camcorders marketed to children in the…
In Search of Lost Time: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Cinematic Imagination
This essay appears in Another Gaze 05 which you can preorder here. A rare image of the Korean-American artist Theresa…
For Magdalena Montezuma
The women in Werner Schroeter’s exuberant films come into sharp focus via two scenes from Der Bomberpilot (The Bomber Pilot,…
To Describe the World: A Conversation with Courtney Stephens about ‘Terra Femme’
Courtney Stephens’s performance lecture Terra Femme ranges from the North Pole to the South Seas, and over everywhere in between….
Sarah Maldoror (1928–2020), as remembered by her two daughters
These introductions were originally read as part of the roundtable ‘The Legacies of Sarah Maldoror 1928–2020′ (12 May 2020), which…
How Do You Solve a Problem like Duszejko?: On Olga Tokarczuk’s ‘Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead’ and Agnieszka Holland’s ‘Spoor’
For Janina Duszejko, the Polish protagonist of Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Prowadź swój…
Rehearsed Realities: Cecilia Mangini’s Documentary Fictions of Rural South Italy
In a post-war Italy ravaged by two decades of fascism, reckoning with the ruins of its urban landscape, young photographer…
Desirous Dreams: The feminist erotics of Rebecca Horn’s ‘Berlin Exercises in Nine Parts’ (1974–75)
For a period of 12 months during 1968 and 1969, Rebecca Horn was isolated in hospital with lung poisoning contracted…
Imagined Adaptations
Elaine May adapts Elaine Dundy’s ‘The Dud Avocado’ Born in 1921, Elaine Dundy was a Manhattanite whose pithy flare inked…
Sense-Making From The Ground Up: The Films of Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
From the 10th to the 23rd of July 2019, Puerto Rico, a Caribbean archipelago that has been subjected to U.S….
What Is Democracy?: A Conversation With Astra Taylor
This interview was first published in Another Gaze 03 Astra Taylor is a Canadian-American activist, writer, musician, and documentary filmmaker. Her…
Oubliette
Instructions for reading: Play the song ‘Art Decade’ by David Bowie on repeat while reading this text. Read the text…