In this issue:

Commentary: The politics of counting and the scene of rescue
Border deaths in the Mediterranean
– Martina Tazzioli

Article: Art, documentary and the essay film
– Esther Leslie

Article: The history of cinema, as experience
– Christa Blümlinger

Article: Chats perchés
Chris Marker’s mimetic, comical and historical prophecy
– Gertrud Koch

Article: Anti-castism and misplaced nativism
Mapping caste as an aspect of race
– Meena Dhanda

Reviews: 192 reviews – John Kraniauskas, Jeffery R. Webber, Nickolas Lambrianou, Victoria Horne, Sam Cooper, Gerald Moore, Paola Pasquali and Carrie Giunta

Obituary: Dialectical negativism: Michael Theunissen, 1932-2015
– Tilo Wesche