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…
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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….
Cao Fei’s ‘Blueprints’ finds freedom in fantasy
Cao Fei’s ‘Blueprints’ begins in a room decorated to look like a mid-20th century foyer in China: the kind you…
Against Inheritance: Stanya Kahn’s ‘No Go Backs’
Stanya Kahn’s latest short film ‘No Go Backs’ (2020) opens with two teenage boys pissing into the grassy scrub with…
There is the sound, too, of a ticking clock: A Time-based Reading of Anne Charlotte Robertson’s ‘Five Year Diary’
In 1981, in Boston, Massachusetts, Anne Charlotte Robertson bought five rolls of Super 8 film with which to record her…
Describing the World Otherwise: Anne Charlotte Robertson’s ‘Five Year Diary’
Anne Charlotte Robertson started keeping a diary when she was 11 and never stopped. By the time the artist died…
Towards a Quilombo Cinema: An Afro-Brazilian Feminist Roundtable
A conversation between Everlane Moraes, Janaína Oliveira, Kênia Freitas, and Tatiana Carvalho Costa. Translated by Lillian Maguire and Natalia Davies….
Dreamscapes and Ethnospheres: Ben Rivers and Anocha Suwichakornpong’s ‘KRABI, 2562’ (2019)
Describing the motivation behind his feature The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not…
Locating the Lesbian Hand in Barbara Hammer’s Early Works
Barbara Hammer’s ‘Double Strength’ (1976) opens with a sequence of sepia photographs featuring Hammer and her then-partner, Terry Sendgraff, a…
Towards a Diffractive Cinema: The Video Works of Amanda Melissa Baggs (1980–2020)
Amanda Melissa Baggs, also known as Mel Baggs, died on 11 April 2020. This essay was originally published in print…
The Talking Cinema of Barbara Hammer (1939 – 2019)
“I’ve never shown ten of my films in chronological order before. I’m going to be sitting there with you and…
‘Still Moving’: Ulrike Ottinger’s Shifting Archive of Identity
An experimental documentary that unpacks a personal archive without exposition, narration, or dialogue, Ulrike Ottinger’s Still Moving (2009) relies instead…
“Not my country, not my home, nobody in the whole world”: The Life and Cinema of Lorenza Mazzetti (1928 – 2020)
When she arrived at the British border off the ferry from France in 1951, Lorenza Mazzetti’s Italian passport was stamped…
Red, White, Yellow, Black: A Multiracial Feminist Video Collective, 1972-73
On two nights – one in December 1972, the other April 1973 – the multiracial, multimedia feminist art collective Red,…
The Great Digestive Machine: Inside the Choreography of Loie Fuller and the Underwater Cinema of Geneviève Hamon and Jean Painlevé
If the afterlife exists, I’ve always imagined that I’d like mine to be underwater. I’d be reborn as something with…
Hito Steyerl’s Grey Zone
It’s said that Theodor Adorno asked to have the walls of his lecture hall painted a certain shade of grey….
Intimacy, Distance and Detail in Ute Aurand’s ‘Rasendes Grün mit Pferden’ (‘Rushing Green with Horses’)
Watching Ute Aurand’s Rushing Green with Horses is like being spirited sideways into a pastoral. Shot entirely in 16mm with…
Thinking Through Camille Billops (1933-2019)
“You have to have a certain sense of defiance in you so you don’t self-destruct. They can’t stop the creative…
The Queer Subjectivity of Charlotte Prodger’s ‘BRIDGIT’
Near the end of her Turner Prize-winning film ‘BRIDGIT’ (2016), Charlotte Prodger remembers reading “things Sandy Stone wrote in 1994…
Selling Sweat: On the Ethics of Renting ‘Extraordinary Bodies’ in Mika Rottenberg’s Videos
Throughout Mika Rottenberg’s career, the artist has – as she puts it – rented the bodies of extraordinary women. By…
‘You Don’t Know What You Want, Do You?’ The Life And Work of Jane Arden
Jane Arden (a pseudonym possibly drawn from a ‘girl reporter’ comic strip, or a correspondent of Mary Wollstonecraft, or both,…