Thanks to all the authors, the peer reviewers, and our amazing editor-in-chief, Laura Rascaroli (@alphavillej.bsky.social).
It has been a treasured project for both of us, and we hope you accept the invitation to “come” to Latin America with us.
www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue2930.html
We are delighted to launch ‘Fragments’, a new journal of experimental videographic form and method. Please enjoy our first collection of fragments and check out our evolving manifesto to learn a little more about our ambitions for this journal. fragments.video
In “Decolonising Through Co-Curation” Rachel Johnson @universityofleeds.bsky.social traces “the complex relationships between curation, funding, placemaking and labour” in reference to the “Women Creators of the Future” programme doi.org/10.33178/alp...
In “Documenting the Territory in Saint-Louis (Senegal)”, Laura Feal Sánchez interviews Mamadou Sellou Diallo, exploring his work in the creation of “audiovisual projects” that “document a space in all its complexity”
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In “Tigritudes: A Subjective Anthology of Pan-African Cinema to Decolonise the Gaze” Estrella Sendra interviews Dyana Gaye about her project Tigritudes @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
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In “Stories Are in Our Bones!” From mispon to Ācimowin: A Conversation with Janine Windolph, in Memory of Trudy Stewart” Janine Windolph and Sheila Petty @PettySheila join together to map out, probe, two Indigenous focused film festivals in Saskatchewan – mispon (2006-2018) and Ācimowin (2024-)”
In “The Muestra de Cine Afrodescendencias in Costa Chica: Intersections of Afrodescendance and Decoloniality in Curatorial Practice” Claudia Lora et al analyse “the curatorial work and collective exhibition of the Muestra de Cinea Afrodescendencias
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Issue 28 is launched! “Moving Beyond the (De)Colonial Container: The Work of Film Festivals” edited by Sheila Petty and Estrella Sendra @ucclibrary.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @uregina.bsky.social @filmstudiesff.bsky.social doi.org/10.33178/alp...
«When most people go to the movies, the ultimate compliment for them is to say: “We didn’t notice the time pass!”
With me, you see the time pass. And feel it pass.
You also sense that this is the time that leads towards death. And that’s why there’s so much resistance»
Chantal Akerman, Paris, 1979
Catherine Tanvier, the former tennis star who appears in Film Socialisme, has written a book, "Un film à Rolle," about working with Godard ("I'm not an actress." "But who asked you to be an actress? Be yourself.") and details his elaborate exercises for the cast...
www.liberation.fr/culture/livr...
"My book aims to change how we look at films ... by starting first with all the extracted materials that filmmaking required and the industries that were required..." Brian Jacobson discusses his new book THE CINEMA OF EXTRACTIONS. bit.ly/4hK84Aa @bleudeciel.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
King Vidor (with scenes from his film "Beyond the Forest" featuring Bette Davis) - BOTD
Giuliana walks against the flow of the striking workers: she moves from right to left, they from left to right.
Cléo walks against the flow of the pedestrians crossing the road: she moves from right to left, they from left to right.
Another image of Giuliana walking against the flow of the striking workers.
Another image of Cléo walking against the flow of the pedestrians.
In Red Desert, when Giuliana walks against the flow of the striking factory workers, the image recalls a pivotal scene in Agnès Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7. Cléo’s path intersects with a stream of pedestrians – they are almost like a funeral procession, resonating with her thoughts of mortality.
Only three more days until our virtual event!
We are delighted to be joined by @larascaroli.bsky.social, @annaviolasborgi.bsky.social, and more!
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Chantal #Akerman ❤️
Jeu de Paume
We're hosting the conference "Real & Imagined Spaces in Film" at the University of Zaragoza's newly renovated Faculty of Arts on May 29-30, 2025.
Submit your paper by February 3rd!
CFP: eventos.unizar.es/126084/detai...
#Antonioni in Paris
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Yes please!
I look forward to it! 😊
Our next virtual event is coming up on January 24th!
Please join us for a virtual talk featuring the editors and contributors of Alphaville's Home as a Site of Resistance
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Can't wait to be in Paris for this exciting conference on Michelangelo #Antonioni
iicparigi.esteri.it/fr/gli_event...
LIVED MOMENTS: PHENOMENOLOGY, NEOREALISM, AND THE NEW WAVE, now available from McGill-Queen's University Press:
www.mqup.ca/lived-moment...
#Godard #Antonioni #DeSica #Rohmer #Rossellini #Phenomenology #Modernism #NewWave #Neorealism #FilmPhilosophy
📣 FROM OUR LATEST ISSUE 📣
With "Voicing the Border: On Some Spectral Essay Films",
@larascaroli.bsky.social proposes "an acoustemology of spectral border essay films"
Read more here: raco.cat/index.php/Co...
State Library Victoria
#libraries
Rennie Ellis, Melbourne Out Loud
State Library Melbourne
Dora Maar was a gifted and politically motivated photographer. Seemingly, however, the most important fact in her life is that she was betrayed by Picasso. 🙄😩
I do like my Lumière right next to Camille Pissarro
National Gallery of Victoria
Nice! Programme of 2nd edition of Home Movie Days – sessions are online!
www.reframinghomemovies.it/doc/HomeMovi...
www.reframinghomemovies.it/hmd/2
