MFJ 82 “Real Life”

Fall 2025

The paradox at the heart of any film writing is the impossibility of capturing images in words, particularly avant-garde images which experiment with form and often intentionally try to escape conventional language… The Journal holds space for this contradiction, with the understanding that the experience of moving images and the context of static words can work together to say something new about the material conditions they both emerged from.

This issue of MFJ, no. 82, is titled Real Life…

In a time when we spend so many waking hours looking at screens, it’s important to remember that the images we are surrounded by are not merely reflections of the world, but part of its very substance.

Excerpted from Vince Warne’s Introduction, MFJ 82 “Real Life” (Fall 2025).

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Introduction
Vince Warne

 

REVIEWS

CAMP @ MoMA
Rachel Stevens

Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet
Simon Payne

Expanded Cinema at EMAF
Andrew Northrop

Contact I & II at New Arts Projects, London
Nicky Hamlyn

Blue Permutations in the Cyanotype Films of Kate Lain and Gabby Follett
Elizabeth Lowe

Moving Statics: The Films of Arthur and Corinne Cantrill
Steven Ball

I Love Undertime Slopper (Notes and Citations)
Ari Temkin

Claudia Hart: Illuminations
Corinna Kirsch

War in Pieces (Notes and Citations)
Grahame Weinbren

 
BOOK REVIEWS

William Raban’s Nautical Twilight: Fifty Years an Artist Filmmaker
Ian Christie

The Attractions of the Moving Image: Essays on History, Theory, and the Avant-Garde by Tom Gunning
Ken Eisenstein

Mike Hoolboom: Work ed. Clint Enns
Jon Petrychyn

 

ARTIST PAGES

Wax Museum Déjà Vu
Jennifer Reeves

 

ARTICLES

What is an Artist? An Introduction to the Brakhage Symposium
Mike Hoolboom

Perceptual Drift: Toward a New Material Poetics of Vision in the Work of Jason Isolini
Natasha Chuk

Hot, Fluctuating, and Melting Landscape in Daïchi Saïto’s earthearthearth (Notes and Citations)
Sangyoung Nam

Rigged Realities: Puppetry, Avatars, and the New Aesthetics of the Moving Image (Notes and Citations)
Jonah King

 

CONVERSATIONS

From Landscape Films to Films as Landscapes: A Conversation with Daniel & Clara (Notes and Citations)
Oksana Chefranova

 

REMEMBRANCES

Dara Birnbaum
John Sanborn

Bill Horrigan
Bruce Jenkins

Tomonari Nishikawa
R. Emmet Sweeney

Flo Jacobs
Richard Herskowitz

Night Comes on: A Love Letter to P. Adams Sitney
Ara Osterweil

 

ONLINE

Continuous Energies: A Kumar Shahani Retrospective at Prismatic Ground (Read Online)
Hannah Bonner

Prismatic Ground: Los Angeles, The Mills, and A Moon (Read Online)
Will DiGravio

Anne Waldman’s Continuing Voice in Outrider (Read Online)
Vera Dika

The Long View: A Conversation with Peter Von Ziegesar (Read Online)
Cortland Rankin

Marina Zurkow: Parting Worlds (Releasing Soon!)
Vince Warne

War and Pieces Continued (Read Online)
Grahame Weinbren

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Fall Issue, October 2025
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