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...Raya Morag This essay proposes a new paradigm for cinema trauma studies: the trauma of the perpetrator. Recognizing a current shift in interest from trauma suffered by victims to that suffered by perpetrators, it seeks to break the repression of the abhorrent figure of the perpetrator in cinema...

... © 1976 by Camera Obscura 1976 Works in Progress: Current Film Practice Jackie Raynal is living in New York City, writing and doing research on contemporary French avant-garde film. She is hoping to find the means to direct another film. D Hollis Frampton has made forty one...

....” ARCHIVE FOR THE FUTURE The Imaginary Archive: Current Practice Tess L. Takahashi The term archive usually connotes an officially sanctioned reposi- tory of objects and documents that reinforce a group or nation’s identity and origins. What then can be made of the deluge...

... Dark Water (2002) and South Korea's A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), this essay proposes that the current orientation evinces the anxieties of a patriarchal culture denied its sovereignty as the result of a widening gulf between the mythology of the bourgeois family and its actual social manifestations...

... policy governing cinematic nudity. Long thought to be lost (and the only one of her four films currently extant), the film features Munson in a dual role as the allegorical figure of “Virtue” and as a young woman who becomes an artists' model. She poses nude in scenes throughout the film. Accordingly...

... producer Robert Lantos, who repeatedly accused the Toronto Declaration signators of being blacklisters, censors, and fascists (among other choice terms). By deconstructing Lantos's accusations one by one, Greyson in turn reveals the specific tactics that distinguish this current boycott movement from past...

... of the impact of neoliberalism on current queer politics, the piece winds its way toward a suturing of queer identity and questions of nation. Road Movie installation at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Photo by Tom Blanchard, courtesy O’Born Contemporary I N PRACTICE: THE QU EER ST A T...

... mission, to examine the “current state of experimental film and media on an international” scale. A number of explicit changes occurred between 1989 and 2010 regarding the material conditions of experimental media — physical, structural, institutional, and economic. The more recent congress examined...

...Kristen Fallica This essay commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the independent feminist film organization Women Make Movies (WMM) by reflecting on its history and relationship to larger currents in feminist media culture. Based on archival research, this contribution to Camera Obscura 's...

...Jonathan Cohn This article focuses on the birth of social networking and digital recommendation technologies and their relationship to current cultures of postfeminism and neoliberalism. These technologies, primarily designed to bring users in touch with other people and consumer goods, are tied...

... historical forms of media activism and current digital platforms for feminist activism. Marusya Bociurkiw is the director of the Studio for Media Activism and Critical Thought and an associate professor of media theory at Ryerson University in Toronto. She is the author of Feeling Canadian...

... the femininity of the brand according to masculine values and cultures. The femininity of the thirty-year-old series is placed in historical and theoretical context, illustrating parallels between current and earlier incarnations of the franchise and its continuities with other women-centered popular media...

... functions throughout the essays as a critical prism through which individual authors consider the current industrial, theoretical, and cultural values that frame female directors and their work. © 2014 by Camera Obscura 2014 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may...

...-motion animated films that explicitly consider questions of disability, gender, and political action. This article considers in particular the short films The Toll Collector (US, 2003), made by Lift founder Rachel Johnson, and Henrietta Bulkowski , currently in production at Lift. It argues that both...

... through the different terrains of collective memory, the article shows that the militarized vision and real-time temporality of Drones produce control effects of visibility like those that currently characterize the borderlands. In contrast, the haptic and entangled aesthetics of TruNode produce...

... drive. In response to Potter’s coupling of cosmopolitanism and love, this article puts their idealizations in critical dialogue, mapping their respective productions of desirable and undesirable subjects. The article returns to this film in the current context of intensifying violence motivated...

... women-driven initiatives that offer responses to current industrial practices: Women in Film and Television Germany (WIFTG), Pro Quote Film (PQF), and the grassroots organization Into the Wild Mentoring (ITW). Their approaches to dealing with sexism and structural inequalities continue...

... conference, and a publication currently in production. This Akerman project, which grew spontaneously, was initiated by A Nos Amours (curators and filmmakers Adam Roberts and Joanna Hogg), who presented an exhaustive retrospective of Akerman’s film and video works over a two-year period between 2013 and 2015...

... ethical questions around white imperial violence, the disposability of brown lives, and the current political shift of and toward white women in positions of intense power. The article argues that these two technologies of domination—visual culture that entertains its citizens and political practice...

... on the role of cinema in promoting women’s history. Furthermore, it raises highly controversial subjects, such as how to analyze the layers of gendered silencing surrounding both women’s traumatic history and women perpetrators of these sexual crimes; the influence of former KR cadres within current Cambodian...