Stephen Dwoskin was a prolific experimental filmmaker from the mid-1960s until his death in 2012. Commonly associated with New York underground film scene and London Filmmakers’ Co-Op, which he co-founded 1966, Jewish-American also childhood survivor of polio disability rights activist. Though an enduring oral legacy feminist criticism Dwoskin’s work remains since 1980s, later 1990s 2000s is ac...

During the first screening of Joseph Cornell’s Rose Hobart at Julien Levy Gallery in New York City 1936, Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí forcefully knocked over film projector a rage, accusing Cornell having stolen idea for from Dalí’s own subconscious. A foundational figure American surrealism, had produced new and startling variation on compilation film. represented attempt by filmmaker to p...

Playwriting guides, creative writing handbooks, and screenwriting manuals are replete with guidance as to how an author should express their themes. One common rule of thumb is that the climax where themes, characters, narrative’s result converge in terminal thematic statement. If theme established elaborated on during a film, then its film’s authors position matter through or lack thereof. As ...

Analogies have been drawn between therapeutic recovery and decolonization. This will mean that one can interrogate psychological effects of trauma on cultures or nations undergo undergone colonization. If decolonization is perceived a form therapy, colonialism adjudged potential trauma. paper interested in understanding how could potentially traumatize nation given culture. It equally explores ...

In 2004, a Dutch-Moroccan Islamic extremist in Amsterdam brutally murdered Theo van Gogh, Dutch filmmaker known for his critique of Islam. Using difference-in-differences approach, we show that, Amsterdam, the assassination resulted more than 19-percentage-point increase likelihood prosecution unrelated violent crimes male suspects born Muslim-majority countries. The effect is detectable during...

The end-of-life documentaries that focus on natural death struggle with the question as to whether cinematic technology is able express an event and it should even aspire do so. In process of filming dying people, questions vulnerability, privacy, empowerment become important, each filmmaker makes ethical choices about how approach topic. By interviewing 14 documentary directors, using one audi...

The article examines the philosophical basis of figure a new hero in literature and film. “New heroes” selected literary cinema works are compared within context existentialist philosophy “philosophical anthropology”. Material for comparative intertextual intermedial analysis is novel Demons by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky Luchino Visconti’s late films Damned, Ludwig Conversation Piece. attem...

This article examines the digital artworks created by three Chinese diaspora artists based in Europe: Berlin-based queer filmmaker Fan Popo’s short video Lerne Deutsch meiner Küche (‘Learn German my kitchen’), London-based performance artist Zeng Burong’s Non-Taster and writer David K. S. Tse’s radio play The C Word . All were 2020 during pandemic all deal explicitly with issues of anti-Asian r...