MFJ No. 77 "Rifts"

Release Date April 15th

Above: Sylvia Schedelbauer, In the Beginning, Woman was the Sun (2022), Courtesy the artist.

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Oversized and ambitious, MFJ 77 RIFTS maps the evolving terrain of the moving image, whose branching paths diverge, merge, and reform, cutting through old boundaries while charting new territory. A rift suggests a split, a breaking apart, but it also conjures up the idea of an interstice—a place between, a space of negotiation, and a site of reimagination. It is perhaps here that the true essence of artists' moving images emerges, not just in its resistance to tradition and convention but in its willingness to interrogate these liminal spaces. Throughout this issue, we find diverse articulations of in-between-ness in discussions of works that explore the relations between past and present, old and new, sound and image, truth and fiction, reality and fantasy.

Excerpted from Kim Knowles' Introduction to Millennium Film Journal 77 RIFTS (Spring 2022)

We are especially pleased to include artist pages by Cathy Rogers, offering insight into her unique process mixing organic and synthetic material, capturing plants with celluloid film.

The issue's centerpiece is a lengthy dossier on the 60th annual New York Film Festival's experimental sidebar, Currents, gathering contributions from the MFJ Editorial and Advisory Board members. The extensive coverage, tracing contemporary trends and developments in programming, acts as a snapshot of this moment in artists' moving image.

Other highlights include: Tyler Maxin's interview with Charles Atlas on his large-scale installation The Mathematics of Consciousness at Pioneer Works, Yanxiu Luo's review of Peng Zuqiang's screening Souvenirs of Frictions at the e-flux screening room, Christina Lammer's consideration of the medium and method of Philipp Fleischmann's film sculptures, Justin Remes' interview with Peter Tscherkassky, and Amy Taubin's thoughtful remembrance Michael Snow, reflecting on her first-hand experience during the making of Wavelength (1967).

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The Millennium Film Journal is partially supported by the following individuals and organizations:
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Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation
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