Frieze. Nov/Dec 08.

Clio Barnard writes the "Life in Film" column for the new issue of Frieze, and it's a rich and wide-ranging entry, spiked with clips from Performance, Invocation of My Demon Brother, The Gospel According to St Matthew and Rashomon.

John Waters's "head-on, crud-slinging, no-holds-barred approach to trash is a canny strategy for squaring up to the double standards of a society where transgression is rated and stratified according to arbitrary distinctions," writes Sally O'Reilly, reviewing This Filthy Life.

Bettina Brunner on new work by Margaret Salmon: "In Guns Trilogy the representation of the soldier's domestic actions has the quality of a nostalgic, rather melancholic home movie, yet his story is the most disturbing. Talking about his experiences in the Vietnam War, which included an encounter with a little girl holding a hand grenade, he tells us about his decision to kill her. There is a grim logic in his words when he says that she was going to die anyway and that the question was whether or not she would take him with her. Michel Foucault, who noted how wrong it is to believe there can be no violence in a world of reason, springs to mind here."

A "Case Study": Daria Martin and her two new films, Harpstrings and Lava and Minotaur.

The recent exhibition Not Quite How I Remember It "unexpectedly managed to complicate realist documentary through formal disruptions that defamiliarized the past in order to reframe the present," writes Benjamin Carlson.

Devika Singh views recent video and photography by 25 Indian artists collected in Still Moving Image.

"No singer has masochistically revelled in the way that romance lured the lover out beyond the pleasure principle more than [Magazine's Howard] Devoto, who would confess that he had ‘a need for agony that he had to subdue,'" writes Mark Fisher. With clips.

Also: Adrian Searle talks with Richard Serra, Jerome Boyd-Maunsell remembers David Foster Wallace and Dan Fox explains the "content crunch."

And, as noted earlier, Daniel Tapper talks with Terence Davies about Of Time and the City.

Posted by dwhudson at November 3, 2008 1:23 AM