Review of: In Fading Light: The Films of the Amber Collective, James Leggott (2020) New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 268 pp., ISBN 978-1-78920-651-7, e-book, £25.00
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How to address and cope with the complexity of the ecological breakdown as a documentary moving image artist? This text contends that the causes and the consequences of the current ecological situation create some challenges for documentary-orientated artistic practices. These challenges are on the one hand related to the overwhelming complexity of the Anthropocene. On the other hand, as addressed in this text, these challenges are connected to dominant assumptions related to the label ‘documentary’. By revisiting the roots of the documentary this article examines how the documentary mode can be productive for the planet’s present and future challenges. This endeavour will be illustrated by the way Belgian artists Hannes Dereere and Silke Huysmans use and present documentary footage in their documentary-performance Pleasant Island. Their thoughtful use of today’s most omnipresent device, the smartphone, problematizes the traditional responses of the documentary mode on climate emergency, whilst at the same time, their use of moving images and the instrument that produced these images insists to think today’s emergencies together.
{"title":"Survival on the shores of a sacrifice zone: Thinking ecological emergencies together","authors":"Jasper Delbecke","doi":"10.1386/miraj_00062_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00062_1","url":null,"abstract":"How to address and cope with the complexity of the ecological breakdown as a documentary moving image artist? This text contends that the causes and the consequences of the current ecological situation create some challenges for documentary-orientated artistic practices. These challenges are on the one hand related to the overwhelming complexity of the Anthropocene. On the other hand, as addressed in this text, these challenges are connected to dominant assumptions related to the label ‘documentary’. By revisiting the roots of the documentary this article examines how the documentary mode can be productive for the planet’s present and future challenges. This endeavour will be illustrated by the way Belgian artists Hannes Dereere and Silke Huysmans use and present documentary footage in their documentary-performance Pleasant Island. Their thoughtful use of today’s most omnipresent device, the smartphone, problematizes the traditional responses of the documentary mode on climate emergency, whilst at the same time, their use of moving images and the instrument that produced these images insists to think today’s emergencies together.","PeriodicalId":36761,"journal":{"name":"Moving Image Review and Art Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78508242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artists kicking back: Brief metaphors for the birds and the bees","authors":"Edwina fitzPatrick","doi":"10.1386/miraj_00067_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00067_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36761,"journal":{"name":"Moving Image Review and Art Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90521496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Watching and filming: Notes from Preston New Road anti-fracking campaign","authors":"R. Birch","doi":"10.1386/miraj_00070_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00070_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36761,"journal":{"name":"Moving Image Review and Art Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83014946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Learn slowly about things and allow something to speak back’: Interview with Charlotte Pryce","authors":"K. Knowles","doi":"10.1386/miraj_00072_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00072_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36761,"journal":{"name":"Moving Image Review and Art Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86699551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The upset of wake","authors":"Andrew Kötting","doi":"10.1386/miraj_00048_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00048_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36761,"journal":{"name":"Moving Image Review and Art Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47949761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In 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. Davies. 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. Davies’ 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?
当我完成了我的五年项目——关于20世纪70年代和80年代的女性实验电影制作人——时，我一直在关注这段塑造了我的过去。观看我喜欢的艺术家/电影人的电影有助于抑制我对现在的愤怒。在电视上，史蒂夫·麦奎因(Steve McQueen)和拉塞尔·t·戴维斯(Russell T. Davies)高调配音，上演了一场平行的时光倒流之旅。史蒂夫·麦奎因(Steve McQueen)的系列作品《小斧头》(Small Axe)向黑人社区的斗争致敬，当时战后时代正在衰落，激进的新自由主义个人主义世界正在兴起。早期的愤怒和激进主义有先见之明地计划在2020年放映，恰逢“黑人的命也是命”，从电视上向我们大声疾呼，并回避了一个问题:在过去的40年里，情况究竟有了怎样的改善?相比之下，罗素·t·戴维斯(Russell T. Davies)的《这是一种罪恶》(It’s a Sin)是对20世纪80年代艾滋病一代的创伤治疗以及这种疾病对伦敦一小群年轻同性恋者及其盟友的影响的一种粉饰性的戏剧化。这些不同的声音是如何相遇、混合和融合的，既是那个时代的愿景，也是那个时代的记忆?
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During the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, people did not only contend with anxiety stirred up by being community quarantined. While virtually house arrested, concerned citizens have had to cope with and struggle against the government’s relentless authoritarian practices. In this context, the pandemic is a backdrop and a metaphor for a different upheaval.
{"title":"Documentary in the time of a thousand deaths: A despatch from the Philippines","authors":"Patrick F. Campos","doi":"10.1386/miraj_00043_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00043_1","url":null,"abstract":"During the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, people did not only contend with anxiety stirred up by being community quarantined. While virtually house arrested, concerned citizens have had to cope with and struggle against the government’s relentless authoritarian practices.\u0000 In this context, the pandemic is a backdrop and a metaphor for a different upheaval.","PeriodicalId":36761,"journal":{"name":"Moving Image Review and Art Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47684071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review 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, £81.00ISBN 978-0-19093-864-2, p/bk, £25.99
{"title":"Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia, Jonathan Walley (2020)","authors":"Luis A. Recoder","doi":"10.1386/miraj_00054_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00054_5","url":null,"abstract":"Review 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, £81.00ISBN 978-0-19093-864-2, p/bk, £25.99","PeriodicalId":36761,"journal":{"name":"Moving Image Review and Art Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44895941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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