Thumbnail image: screenshot from structural film Piece Manda / End War by Paul Sharits, whose works were among the major inspirations for the project. EXPERIMENTÁLNÍ FILM / NETART - Facebook Sculpture: (c) merry, 2013 - MARIE MEIXNEROVÁ During her August residency, Czech Internet artist (c) merry will use the facebook profile of LA based curator Chloë Flores to create probably the very first sculpture on fa ...

BOOK REVIEW: A Companion to Eastern European Cinemas (ed. Anikó Imre, 2012) – JANA BÉBAROVÁ (translated by Monika Kubešová; edited by Nikol Šustrová– Českojazyčná verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech-language version of the review is available here At the beginning of the year we reported on a remarkable publication, published by Wiley-Blackwell, dedicated to an early cinema (A Companion to Early Cinema; f ...

BOOK REVIEW: Spike Lee's America (David Sterritt, 2013) - MILAN HAIN -  Česká verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech-language version of the review is available here In the filmography of Spike Lee (born 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia) we can find critically acclaimed and commercially successful films (Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, 25th Hour or Inside Man) alongside almost unprecedented flops (Girl 6, She Hate Me ...

INTERVIEW with the programmer of Changing Channels at IFF Rotterdam, Inge de Leeuw – MARTIN KUDLÁČ – Slovenská verze rozhovoru je zde. Slovak version of the interview is here. The 42nd edition of Rotterdam's Film Festival did equally zealously and progressively as features and shorts screened also TV and web series. Festival dramaturgy focused one of its sections exclusively on episodic storytelling. The vi ...

BOOK REVIEW: Nightmare Alley. Film Noir and the American Dream (Mark Osteen, 2013) - MILAN HAIN -  Česká verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech version of the review is available here With literally hundreds of books about film noir (and with new additions to the noir bibliography each month) it is extremely difficult to come up with an unexplored topic or a fresh historiographical/analytical approach. In hi ...

DOUBLE BOOK REVIEW: JUNK JET N°6: HERE AND WHERE (ingmade.edition, Stuttgart 2012) & Linear Manual (TLTRPreß  &  PAF, 2012) – MARIE MEIXNEROVÁ – Junk Jet is a zine-jet, a collaborative format set up to discuss speculative works on topics of media, aestheetics, and electronics. Junk Jet is an irregular series of medial events, and a low-fi paper publication (including irrational special gifts) on a n ...

BOOK REVIEW: The Films of Victor Mature (James McKay, 2013) – JANA BÉBAROVÁ (translated by ALŽBĚTA RYCHTECKÁ) –  Českojazyčná verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech-language version of the review is available here “Beautiful hunk of a man” – a nickname which would have been fitting for a number of male idols in Hollywood. Most often, however, it was connected with Victor Mature (1913–1999), a well-built dark ...

TOPIC – SAMUEL FULLER: INTERVIEW with Michael Rund, the museum director in the town of Sokolov – JANA BÉBAROVÁ (translated by DANIELA VYMĚTALOVÁ) - As already mentioned in the introductory profile article of Samuel Fuller (see part 1 here), this Hollywood screenwriter, who has only later become himself a film director, participated actively as an infantryman in the World War II. By the end of his war-journe ...

ANALYSIS: And the Fifth Rider is Fear (d. Zbyněk Brynych, 1964) – TOMÁŠ UHER – Translation: TOMÁŠ KOMÍNEK – Původní článek v češtině je zde. / The article in Czech language can be found here. The movie And the Fifth Rider is Fear (...a pátý jezdec je Strach), directed by Zbyněk Brynich, was created in 1964 as the middle part of his trilogy subjected with the matters of the Second World War (Transport z ráje ...

BOOK REVIEW: A Companion to Early Cinema (eds. André Gaudreault, Nicolas Dulac, Santiago Hidalgo, 2012) – MILAN HAIN – Českojazyčná verze recenze je dostupná zde / Czech-language version of the review is available here Early cinema (approximately until 1915) has been the focus of intense historiographic attention since the Brighton congress in 1978. The multitude of research projects, academic surveys and f ...