Offscreen. Catching up.

As Brian Darr remembers to recount how Peter Kubelka changed the way he watches films back in October and, in a comment, Girish reminds me of Jennifer MacMillan's talk with filmmaker Paul Shepard about his Arnulf Rainer tattoo, I recover, too, another mental note that somehow slipped: Volume 9, Issue 11 of Offscreen is devoted to Austrian avant-garde cinema.

• An Offscreen gang of four interviews Kubelka.

• Donato Totaro surveys the Austrian avants (parts 1 and 2) via 15 DVDs from Index, "a specialty DVD label created with the specific aim of promoting Austrian experimental film and video artists. It is a joint project of Medienwerkstatt Wien and sixpackfilm."

• Peter Rist on the work of Peter Tscherkassky.

• Randolph Jordan on another volume in the collection, Sonic Fiction: Synaesthetic Videos from Austria.

As if that weren't enough to catch up with, Issue 12 has since appeared, "with a 'Spanish' bent."

• Roberto Curti on the films of Agustín Villaronga and Totaro on, specifically, In a Glass Cage, which has "garnered a notorious semi-underground reputation as one of the most emotionally wrenching psychological horror films ever made."

• Rist looks back on 2005 as he experienced it in Montreal, and yes, there are lists here.

• Becky Kaklamanidou recalls the 46th International Film Festival of Thessaloniki.

• Via a generous batch of films, Daniel Garrett looks back to his home state, Louisiana, before offering a number of wide-ranging reviews.

Posted by dwhudson at January 23, 2006 8:56 AM