Even The Dead Will Not Be Safe
Montage, History, and Cutting Art Museums
by Madison Brookshire
Film
Editors’ note: This is the first installment of a long-form essay to be published here over the next three issues. In it, artist, filmmaker, and teacher Madison Brookshire examines how art museums, and art history can be radically re-potentiated through strategies of cinematic montage.
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“You’re the Nigger, Baby”
James Baldwin on Film
by Rich Blint
Film
Since 1949, James Baldwin has been singing a song. It’s an old tune, at times tender, chiding, insistent, blaring, but always loving. It is, at its core, a bluesy refrain to the country that formed him, tormented him, his contemporaries, and his kin, and ultimately drove him from its shores.
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WOLFGANG STAEHLE Ludlow Street
by Keith SanbornFilm
Wolfgang Staehle has given us, in his extended digital photographic record of Ludlow Street, not one but ten recordings of twenty-four hours each. Using chance operations, a single day was chosen from each year between 2005 and 2016, except for 2008 and 2014.
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ACTION MOVIES
“Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power”
by Michael Joshua Rowin
Film
An old chestnut—no less true for being old, nor a chestnut—has it that an effective political cinema cannot merely represent radical political movements, issues, or events, but must render them through forms that are themselves radically political.