Dear Reader, When I put out the call for this issue, part of me wondered whether or not I’d offered a subject too wide-ranging to yield any sort of coherence in engagement. “Painting and literature, theater and music” comprise film, as Akira Kurosawa points out. Would the scope of this medium prove unwieldy for the…
Category: Issue Seventeen
My Murderer, Alain Delon
by Renée Lepreau a filmography Plein Soleil (1960)Not yet attached, I find Delon’s youth detexturizes his face a shade too far into pretty-boy. Not even the beach umbrellas are sad when he ends the movie by walking out of the frame, unaware and smiling, towards the police. La Piscine (1969) Giggles behind us throughout an…
FOLEY ARTIST CAPTURING WHATEVER YOU WANT
by Chris Crowder It is the sound of two plastic action figures clacking. It is the sound of an actor ripping a fake cigarette out their mouth. It is the sound the diaphragm vibrates among a deep hacking cough. It is the sound of it is the sound. It is the sound paper sounds like.…
Reflections on The Exterminating Angel
by Danilo Marin Since the fumigators came, I can’t sleep. I’d grown used to scratching in the walls,imagined the mice in hordes, toppling overeach other for a chance to excavate.Evil had a definite face—that comforted me.Now I wait for a new pest to inhabit my thoughts.If this intermission is mourning, who is it for?*Surviving dinner…
Étude of Eluding
by Danielle Shi Dark glasses, wrote Roland Barthes, have been an operative method for the amorous subject, a way for him to disguise himself or cacher, “to hide”. “To what degree … should [he] conceal the turbulences of his passion: his desires, his distresses: in short, his excesses”? Caught in a double bind by the…
from Aquarius
by Sophia Terazawa for my teachers, Susan Briante, Farid Matuk,and Brandon Shimoda, who brought me to the line [i]Years will quiet all memory: the water jar behind a courtyard, fabric andNovember through December having been driven to terrible heartbreak, we, who can blame no one, would pack seven years of notesIf those are—rose quartz—a dead…
This Place is the Place
by Jim Whiteside —Amy Love Beasley; a dance for eight performers; recorded at the 2015 North Carolina Dance FestivalA few notes from a piano, some stringed instrument,eight people crossing the stage to the left, then right,heads down, arms back in a V-shape, as wings. The backdrop lit in bright blue—birds crossing some river, bank to…
Dissolution
by Holly Willis Artist’s Statement: These images are from a larger project titled “Film Studies” that transforms a scholarly practice of film analysis into a material practice that takes many forms. In this particular series, I move from writing about cinema, which I’ve done my entire academic life, to dissolving bits of film footage using…
I watched Andrew Barth Feldman & Cooper Hoffman & Maude Apatow & Judd Apatow & Leslie Mann get drunk
by Sasha Debevec-McKenney after Khadijah Queen’s I’M SO FINE: A LIST OF FAMOUS MEN AND WHAT I HAD ON I watched Andrew Barth Feldman & Cooper Hoffman & Maude Apatow & Judd Apatow & Leslie Mann get drunk at the wrap party for the movie my boyfriend worked on & I was wearing my 3.5…
A Place to Return: Reflections on Yi Yi
by Aiman Tahir Khan There is a moment in Edward Yang’s seminal final feature Yi Yi (2000) when the father walks with his estranged former lover while trains arrive and depart on multiple parallel tracks. When he recalls his sweaty palms from the moment he first held her hand, the screen cuts to his daughter…