Made in the USA by George Clark

13.12.10
Jeff Keen, Marvo Movie Reflections on tradition and history at 14th Views From The Avant-Garde Views From The Avant-Garde is a section of annual New York Film Festival dedicated to experimental film and video work. The programme offers an opportunity to reflect on the position of experimental film in the US. Anyone with a passing familiarity with this area will recognise many names in ...
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It’s not punishment, it’s just whatever by Ajay RS Hothi

07.12.10
I-Be AREA, Ryan Trecartin, 2007 Ryan Trecartin likes the word ‘movie’, over film or video, because, etymologically, it is a derivation from the word ‘move’. We can be clear that he is not one for inactivity. He has exhibited in almost fifty group shows, performances and screenings since 2005 (and in this I include The Generational: Younger than Jesus at The New Museum in 2009, shows ...
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Rosemary Heather on why Ryan Trecartin makes art cool again

03.12.10
Any Ever, Ryan Trecartin The third time I visited Ryan Trecartin’s show of video installations, Any Ever in Toronto, it was near the end of the exhibition. A small army of people moved from room to room, notebooks in hand, recording their thoughts. Like few other art events I can think of, the show contained within it the seeds of a conversation. See Ryan Trecartin’s work and ...
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The Filmmaker’s Community by Ajay RS Hothi

28.11.10
Game Keepers Without Game, Emily Wardill It’s the season of mists. The rain, insistent, engulfs us at every angle and we have eight months of grey cloud ahead of us. Yet our gods grow ever stronger, we find new loves and our friends are absent no longer. In fact, some of our favourite filmmakers will have eagerly approached the Autumn with a feverish enthusiasm. Joe Lawlor ...
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The Spending Review and British Film Culture by Jack Newsinger
26.11.10
Film, as the first industrial art, has always been a complex mix of business and culture, and its status within public policy has reflected this. Successive governments have employed different strategies to stimulate commercial production on the one hand, and to subsidise cultural film activity that would not be possible if left to the market alone on the other. The surprise announcement of the abolition of ...
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What next for cultural film funding?
21.11.10
Adam Pugh on the death throes of the UKFC (Part 2) With the UK Film Council in its death throes and the lottery funds it once administered to be lodged with the British Film Institute, funding for the moving image in this country is set to change. Whilst a far from perfect solution, it nevertheless represents a chance that a more real and fuller landscape of ...
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The Film Council is dead: long live film funding
18.11.10
Adam Pugh on the death throes of UKFC (Part 1) Let us be clear from the outset – quite apart from the forthcoming cuts to the arts, and the wholesale disassembly of the mechanics of central government in favour of X Factor-style self-governance – any government which manages to maintain a £45bn defence budget at the cost of new schools and hospitals must be disingenuous at ...
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