Forty-five years later, it’s not news that our culture is suffused with sexual violence, but, suddenly, the news is flooded with responsible, detailed reporting on it. The spectacular atrocities that have always made headlines now assume their place in the rich context of quotidian harassment associated with company culture, corporate hierarchy, and “the industry”—all the humdrum ...

I would argue, though, that Alloway should not be entombed in the history of Pop art but should live on in the broader context of the fine art/popular culture continuum. There are a number of issues raised in “Pop Since 1949” that enable us to examine the legacy of his thinking in the context of Pop after Pop. A key point in the essay—and one with continuing repercussions—is Alloway ...

New Left Note was an early intimation of the persistent emphasis on companionship that would become a hallmark of Levine’s cinema. In the video works of the past five years, we can see clearly the remarkable capacity and talent for friendship that has been a primary source of his artistic strength since he began to make films.

ANEMIC CINEMA, THAT MOST singular of filmic objects, is, though made in 1926, somewhat of a terminal work, the last of Duchamp’s efforts to point in a significantly new direction. It has elicited surprisingly little comment from the official chroniclers, historians. and exegetes, and Duchamp himself spoke little of it, though he talked more of the circumstances of its making, the series of ...

This ambivalent attraction to scenes of past depravity animates their second play, Brave Smiles (. . . another lesbian tragedy), 1992. Staging a nasty parody of a half century of lesbian images, the Brothers gleefully reenact the tragic fates that inevitably befall lesbian characters in cinema, stage, and supermarket fiction. Shifting from a 1930s German “Academy for Girls” to a wartime ...

On Sundays, I was forced to attend Catholic church with my mother. I regularly tuned out the priests’ Latin chanting at the altar by listening for airplanes overhead and fantasizing about being up there and free. Later, in Paris, I took up lessons in stunt flying with a twin-cockpit biplane—until the other student crashed it!

Born in 1944 to an Indian father and a German mother, Harun Farocki studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin from 1966 to 1968. This places him…

KATE BUSH 1 Jeremy Deller, The Battle of Orgreave The award for Art Event of the Year must go to this epic re-creation. On June 18, 1984, at the height…

To detect these errors is hard work and in so doing the viewer is forced to recognize all of the film’s organizing principles. That fact constitutes a kind of corollary to the basic epistemological position of Zorns Lemma, that knowledge is finally subjective and personal and possibly incommunicable.

He was attempting to distinguish cinema from all other art forms by characterizing its space and time as being somewhat interchangeable and permeated with each other. The technology of placing an event in time and editing it are very similar. You don’t have the vivid recollection I do of the newsreel.