Frieze. 97 + 98.

Well, Jan Verwoert's piece on Jonas Mekas, tantalizingly flagged on the cover of the new issue of Frieze, doesn't seem to be online, but there's plenty worth clicking through to anyway in Issues 97 and 98, beginning with Robert Storr's argument that "the time has come for video to return to its technological roots in order to find its wider public." That doesn't sound like a very exciting read, but start at the beginning and you'll see.

Also:

• Kirsty Bell on the work of Daria Martin: "Although Martin's films are all 'figurative' in that they feature a cast of players, they are characterized by a lack of dialogue that leaves the body's corporeality as the main means of expression."

• Mark Godfrey on Omer Fast, two projects primarily, Godville and another addressing "the Hollywoodization of the Holocaust, scrutinizing Spielberg's magnum opus by deploying tactics associated with filmmaker Claude Lanzmann."

• Brian Dillon on Peter Lennon's 1968 documentary, Rocky Road to Dublin.

• Melissa Gronlund reviews Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image: "In this deeply optimistic work of scholarship, Birkbeck College film professor Laura Mulvey adds new terms to the lexicon of film theory: alongside 'male gaze' now find 'delayed cinema,' the 'fetishistic spectator' and her younger sibling the 'pensive spectator.' Weaving together an analysis of new viewing technology - VCRs and DVDs - and the ageing of film, Mulvey proposes a new mode of watching film that fundamentally alters the experience of cinema itself."

• George Pendle: "No film has come as close as eXistenZ to pinpointing the joys and fearful dislocations of video games, in particular the Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Game or MMORPG."

• Daniel Palmer on last year's exhibition White Noise at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

• Michael Bracewell meets Ralf Hütter of Kraftwerk.

• Kara Walker fills out a questionnaire.

Posted by dwhudson at April 6, 2006 9:15 AM