MFJ No. 79 "Re:presentation"
Releasing Monday!

What to represent, and how, are the core questions of any filmmaking endeavor, and experimental film in particular tends to not only provide unconventional answers, but also to rephrase the questions entirely.

The filmmakers and writers featured in this issue–highly aware, keenly political, exploring the boundaries between art and reality–rethink questions of representation in ways that are equally timeless and particularly vital to this moment.

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Excerpted from Vince Warne’s Introduction to Millennium Film Journal No. 79 (Spring 2024)
Cover: Portrait of Marie Menken shooting "Go Go Go", photograph by William Wood. Courtesy Anthology Film Archives.

Takeshi Murata & Christopher Rutledge LARRY (U.S., 2023, 4 min, digital)

Steve Reinke SUNDOWN (Canada, 2023, 8 min, digital)

Wayne Koestenbaum STIGMA PUDDING (U.S., 2023, 6 min, digital)

Kevin Jerome Everson BOYD V. DENTON (U.S., 2023, 3 min, digital)

Kevin Jerome Everson AIR FORCE TWO (U.S., 2023, 5 min, digital)

Aria Dean ABBATTOIR, U.S.A.! (U.S., 2023, 11 min, digital)

Suneil Sanzgiri AT HOME BUT NOT AT HOME (U.S., 2019, 11 min, digital)

Kathryn Ramey FALL (U.S., 2006, 5 min, 35mm)

Vincent Grenier TABULA RASA (Canada, 1993-2004, 7.5 min, digital)

Marie Menken ARABESQUE FOR KENNETH ANGER (U.S., 1958-1961, 5 min, 16 mm)

Photo: Takeshi Murata and Christopher Rutledge, Larry (2023), frame enlargement. Courtesy the artists.

Latest Online Article

Through a Lens that Wasn’t My Own: Vernacular Video and the Digital Archive

MFJ invited filmmakers Liat Berdugo and Peter Snowdon to discuss what happens when regular people—not professional journalists—record and circulate video of political violence.

Can such an act, often taken at great personal risk, force the public to question official narratives? Can it lead to real justice? These questions are especially urgent now, as Gazans living through the Israeli invasion share evidence of wartime atrocities with the world—and as criminal proceedings, initiated by South Africa against the Israeli government, bring these materials into the space of international law

We are pleased to provide online access to their discussion for the first time, and to include links to the videos they discuss.

Photo: ‘Atta Najar, Salam Najar, and Mi’ad Najar compare footage during a 2014 B’Tselem training seminar in the village of Burin. © B’Tselem.

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