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A Mobile Medium? 6 Articles
On how movement is understood in cinema.
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Show all articlesAn Idle Cinema = A Free Cinema? 6 Articles
On a cinema engaged critically with the all-consuming profit motive but fundamentally disentangled from its demands.
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Show all articlesCinema in Entropy 5 Articles
A series of speculations, anonymously written by the 2023 editorial board.
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Show all articlesIn previous years of photogénie, a new editorial board has inaugurated a new run of issues with a mission statement. In the spirit of this open endeavour, this board has decided to try something different. In lieu of a distinct, collectively written mission statement, we offer up this first issue which contains essays, written by the members of this board, that can be variously taken as a gesture or a wider expression of their conception of cinema and/or the role and act of criticism. We hope that both readers and future writers of photogénie will gain sustenance and inspiration from these pieces and from the following issues, which we will have the great privilege to commission and edit.
Editor's Picks — From the Archive
Sokurov’s Ghosts
Angelo Elia on Aleksandr Sokurov's most recent cinematographic invocation of the ghosts that haunt Europe's modern history.
Godard As Presence: A Ghost Obituary
Arta Barzanji on how Godard's philosophy of cinema also extends to how he appears (and disappears) in the work of other filmmakers.
On the 100% Perfect Haruki Murakami Film Adaptation
Dora Leu on how Murakami's idiosyncrasies relate to both (straight and indirect) adaptations of his work and the work of kindred filmmakers.
Hong Sang-soo, Paul Schrader, and The Three Rs: Repetition, Repetition, Repetition
Kenny Nixon on the revelatory aspects of repetition in the oeuvres of Hong Sang-soo and Paul Schrader.
Le Révélateur: (Non)Sensuous Cinema
Sofie Delrue on the tension between physicality and detachment in Philippe Garrel's Le Révélateur.