Search Results for collaboration

...Corinn Columpar This article explores the role of collaboration, embodiment, and performance in John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus (US, 2006). It takes its cue from a particularly provocative scene in the film in which a former New York City mayor suggests that it is New Yorkers' “permeability...

...Ariella Azoulay The growing literature and catalogs on photographic collaboration, participation, and collectivity, which are part of the proliferation of artistic projects that assert collaboration as their goal, still mainly focus on photographers who initiate collaborative projects...

... in collaboration with Los Angeles choreographer and actress Toni Basil. Shot over a period of two years in Santa Monica, BREAKAWAY draws from Conner and Basil's mutual involvement in both the Hollywood entertainment industry and the West Coast artistic underground through its curious fusion of pop and avant-garde...

...April Durham As a form of creative practice, collaboration holds the promise to extend capacities, challenge hierarchies, and create new forms of community. At best, however, it is a fraught experiment frankly characterized by discord and strife, often reinstating the same power dynamics it seeks...

... Is an Object: Realizing the Feminist Collaborative Video Alexandra Juhasz No woman is filmed as an object; everyone is a subject who combines and presents physical, emotional, intellectual, and political selves. —Julia Lesage, “The Political Aesthetics of the Feminist Documentary Film...

...Hanna Kuusela This article investigates collaborative and crowdsourced online writing projects and the economies surrounding them. It describes the conjunctures between collective creativity and contemporary economic regimes and introduces the concept of the promise economy. The article discusses...

...Sandra Percival This essay brings to the fore the voice of composer and cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton, who was Chantal Akerman’s collaborator and life partner for over thirty years. This dialogue was initiated in 2016 by Sandra Percival, founding director of Zena Zezza, who curated LOOKING, REALLY...

... of the transnational feminist film culture that Akerman’s work in many ways epitomized. Acknowledging several of the publications, conferences, and curatorial efforts that memorialized Akerman after her death in 2015, the piece underscores collaboration as a feminist practice while introducing contributions...

...Edited by Eva Kuhn; Ute Holl In October 2016, we organized a symposium in Basel, Switzerland, in commemoration of Chantal Akerman. Through screenings of her films, as well as talks, presentations, and accounts of friends and collaborators, the event focused on issues of remembering and forgetting...

... Journal . This essay aims to reveal the collaborative nature of the working processes behind this project and the organic manner in which it developed as well as the challenges it posed at a critical time in the artists’ lives. In its totality the project and indeed its process, with its multiplicity...

...Ariane Cruz Reading Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape and the dialogue surrounding it as a most fecund site for the collaborative laboring of black male sexuality, authenticity, and spectatorship, this article reveals the constitutive relationship between authenticity and spectatorship in the production...

... Institute of Chicago, where they collaborated on Chingari chumma ( Stinging Kiss , 2000)—a short video that turns a cliched Bollywood ending into a queer fairy-tale phantasy— as an experiment in post-pornography. In this conversation, the artists reflect on the beginnings of their collaboration, giving...

... decade of the filmmaker's life. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Hammer made work dealing with her body; gave footage she shot over the years to several filmmakers to finish as they wished; set up a grant for lesbian experimental filmmakers; and collaborated with curators, archivists, and her partner...

... compiled a list (already more than 700 titles long) of games that include LGBTQ characters and references. The archive was published online ( lgbtqgamearchive.com ) and made available to the public in spring 2016. For each game in the archive, Shaw and her collaborators include a description of the game's...

... and short-form reflections—that address such topics as collaboration in photography, cinema, and video; utopias and dystopias; history and memory; modes of singleness and of togetherness; technology, embodiment, and intimacy; and feminist and queer collective practices in media and activism in various times...

..., and collaborative interventions as well as the feminist and activist legacies that inform her video, performance, and installation works. For Wyman, opacity and camouflage enable collective emancipatory action in a time of contemporary neoliberal forms of surveillance, as seen in the practices of Pussy Riot members...

.... PQF has been making significant strides in improving funding structures, work climate, and training opportunities for women in all sectors of the German film industry. In the interview, Turanskyj also elaborates on the auto­didactic and collaborative nature of her film practice, significant influences...

...Claire Atherton; Translated by Felicity Chaplin This essay is the memorial address on the life and work of filmmaker, writer, and installation artist Chantal Akerman (1950–2015) by her editor and collaborator of nearly thirty years, Claire Atherton. Atherton emphasizes Akerman’s instinctive way...

...Ivone Margulies This interview with film editor Claire Atherton focuses on her three-decade collaboration on the films and installations of Chantal Akerman (1950–2015). Questioned by Akerman scholar Ivone Margulies, Atherton describes her meeting and rapport with Akerman and their way of working...

...Janet Bergstrom For this interview, cinematographer, photographer, and filmmaker Babette Mangolte agreed to focus on her collaborations as cinematographer with Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman on her 1970s New York films. Besides Jonas Mekas and Anthology Film Archives, Mangolte brought in the art...