Posts tagged: film

The Wound: Effeminacy Against Manhood, Mountain Against City

South African film Inxeba (The Wound) reveals the developmental power male spaces hold over those coerced into passing through them.
The Inheritance of Potentiality: An Interview with Joan Copjec

In this 2014 interview, Joan Copjec discusses the development of her thought, the state of psychoanalytic theory, and her recent work.
The Walls of the WTO: A film by Ryan S. Jeffery and Quinn Slobodian

Watch The Walls of the WTO, a short film that revisits the history of twentieth-century ideas of the world economy through a single building: the Centre William Rappard on the shores of Lake Geneva.
The Two Avant-Gardes

Peter Wollen's landmark essay on the relation between two distinct traditions of avant-garde film.
For a Marxist Poetics of Science: An Interview with Esther Leslie

In this career-spanning interview with George Souvlis, Esther Leslie discusses Walter Benjamin, animated film, the history of color, the Historical Materialism project, and the commemoration of the revolutionary past.
Everything's Coming Together While Everything's Falling Apart: The ZAD

A documentary video on the ZAD by artist Oliver Ressler.
Reagan at the Movies

A previously unpublished 1986 essay by filmmaker Thom Andersen, excerpted from a new collection of his writings.
Mourning and Mannahatta

In the Cut cannily moves its counter across a board whose rules have been laid down by Freudian psychoanalysis, Propp’s analysis of folk tales, and film theory’s obsession with the B-movie and noir.
Movie (1934)

A 1934 poem by Muriel Rukeyser, collected in Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writing on the First Fifty Years of Cinema.
Subversive Pasolini: La Ricotta and The Gospel According to Matthew — a conversation between Nina Power and Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
How Shlomo Sand Stopped Being a Jew, directed by Bruce Robbins — trailer
Perpetual War and Permanent Unrest: The Battle of Algiers After 9/11

This essay is excerpted from Sohail Daulatzai's Fifty Years of The Battle of Algiers: Past as Prologue, published by the University of Minnesota Press.