A Different Kind of Duration: Lila Avilés’s ‘The Chambermaid’
The Hotel, Room 47: an open suitcase; mussed bedsheets; a torn postcard of Venetian sights, its eight pieces carefully re-assembled….
No other voice: Claire Denis’s ‘High Life’
Claire Denis’s latest film, High Life, opens with an exchange of voices: the cry of a baby, Willow, and the…
Wonder in Miniature: Shireen Seno’s ‘Nervous Translation’
In Shireen Seno’s Nervous Translation (2017), the world is cut to eight-year-old Yael’s measure. The film unfolds almost exclusively within…
Wandering across Frames: Moyra Davey and the Feminist Essay Film
In ‘Walking with Nandita’, an essay for documenta 14 composed of photographs and fragments of text, Canadian artist Moyra Davey…
On Valeska Grisebach’s ‘Western’ and its borderlessness
Valeska Grisebach describes her latest feature, Western (2017), as a “dance with the genre”.¹ Here the cinematic evocations of the…
Speaking at Cross Purposes in Claire Denis’s ‘Let the Sunshine In’ (2017)
“So it is a lover who speaks and who says:” So begins Roland Barthes’s A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, a philosophical…
Baroque Pleasures and Queer Transformations in Evangelia Kranioti’s ‘Obscuro Barroco’
Obscuro Barroco (2018) is shot through with the baroque. Textures of fabric and flesh, caught in movement, guide the essay…
A Backwards Trajectory through Camille Henrot’s ‘Days are Dogs’
A pulsing flower, a botox injection, a watery baptism: through this collection of images, Camille Henrot’s Saturday (2017) explores the…
The Discomfort of Recognition: Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s ‘Erase and Forget’ (2017)
“How do we see each other, rather than mak[e] someone other?” With this question, filmmaker Andrea Luka Zimmerman gestures toward…
Touch And Its Hesitations in Ildikó Enyedi’s ‘On Body and Soul’
Ildikó Enyedi’s On Body and Soul (2017) is an exercise in counterpoint. From its opening sequences, the film unravels a…
Choreographies of Relation: Female Subjectivity in ‘A Woman, a Part’ (2016)
Elisabeth Subrin’s A Woman, a Part opens with an image of three figures in single file, arms reaching upwards in…
The Face and the Sea: Temporalities of Resistance | Coding and Representation Conference
Coding and Representation Conference Guildhall Art Gallery and the Courtauld Institute of Art 20-21 January 2017 Confronted by a face,…