MFJ 69 “Deep Cuts”

Spring 2019

This issue engages an impressive array of contemporary film and video practices marked by substantial formal, cultural, financial, and political differences. Yet the contributions that comprise this issue also interface in intriguing ways. The issue’s title, “Deep Cuts,” seeks to draw out thematic correspondences between these contributions, illuminating points of contact that emerge across a collection of reviews, articles, and conversations structured by recurring themes of music, montage, and obscurity, as well as experiences of intense and lasting violence (whether ecological, political, bodily, representational). We leave it to the reader to determine whether such intersections are the result of blind chance, or of the shared historical situation inhabited by the artists and authors featured in this issue.