Cinema and Video

On the memory gaps in the documentary “Soundtrack to the Coup d’Etat”; Nikita Khrushchev as a Decolonial Manic Pixie Girlfriend; standing ovations for the documentary “Russian at War” and post-left.

From Issue 4—General Public — Summer 2020 (Archive) We discuss WIP of “Unrest”, based on Peter Kropotkin’s time in the Jura mountains, where he meets the workers from the local watchmaking factory

Defining a subgenre in modern horror movies that explores traumatic experiences and provokes catharsis of the audience — how do they work structurally and why do we enjoy A24 so much?

Iconic Movies of different years, where the main roles were given to Sound.

On how Pier Paolo Pasolini and Kenneth Anger modified public attention and criticized media fascism through meta-narratives, parody, and layering semantics onto semantics

Interview with Miyuki Oka. An unusual day in the background of life

Follow us on Patreon to watch a film essay by researcher and director Furqat Palvan-Zade, telling the story about the complex political geographies of Central Eurasia

The text argues that the approach Assia Djebar takes is a feminist and anti-colonial one, and looks into the instruments and methods she uses in order to subvert the power narrative

Review of Keti Chukhrov’s video play “Undead” on the split between spirit and matter in the life of the inhabitants of the former USSR’s periphery

By Toni Hildebrandt and Katharina Hölzl

Interview with Japanese artist Yoshinori Niwa. The Weight of History

In Search Of The Bus: Travel and Communication. Interview with TOMIMOTRAVEL

Interview with Anton Vidokle. “Citizens of Cosmos” and cosmism in Japan

The first part of the interview with Michael Goldberg. Video art in Japan and Canada. The Origins of Japanese Video Art: Persons and Events

Documentary film essay about the New Silk Road promoted by the Chinese government that changes logistic strategies, creates new forms of migration, topography and infrastructures

A public talk with Saodat Ismailova, Dr. Marianne Kamp, and Dr. Chloé Drieu, who discuss the history of women’s issue in Central Asia, the Hujum campaign, and its consequences