Janus of the Antipodes: An Interview with French-Australian Filmmakers Jayne Amara Ross and Viviane Vagh Raphaël Bassan June 2015 Feature Articles I had the idea to initiate a conversation with two filmmakers from different generations but with similar preoccupations. Two Franco-Australian filmmakers came to mind, two female artists whose work is characte...
Moving through the Absence: Viviane Vagh’s Ground Zero NY, 2005 Diana Gonzalez July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh From there, faced with these large frescoes, the feeling of the past being wiped away, of its disappearing and the impression of ruins: of traces of a world that is now based on a bombardment of images. – Yo...
Magical Transformations: A Conversation with Viviane Vagh Justine Gaunt July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh “There are lots of different identities in my genes”, says Viviane Vagh. We speak on the ’phone, she in Paris, me in Yorkshire, but either of us could be anywhere. Viviane has roots in Greece, Australia, Fr...
Viviane Vagh and the Poetics of Disappearance, Or: A Portrait of Cinema as a Young Girl Gabriela Trujillo July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh A young girl on a sunny day. Gracefully, she comes and goes. Does she know she’s being filmed? Does she know that, as her image multiplies on the screen, she seems to disappear? The fleeting presence A se...
Experimental Fusions: Viviane Vagh’s Beachcombers Installations Romy Sutherland July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh Viviane Vagh’s absorbing installation series, “Beachcombers”, is a celebration of fusion. Vagh explores the meeting points of natural elements, such as land and sea, of various art forms and of diverse cult...
For the Life of Experimental Cinema: A Conversation with Raphaël Bassan Viviane Vagh August 2007 Feature Articles Filmmaker Viviane Vagh talks to one of the seminal figures of the French experimental film scene. Filmmaker, critic and cinema historian, Raphaël Bassan speaks about his career, his films and his life long passion for film.
Welcome to Issue 99! the editors July 2021 Editorial As we write the Cannes film festival has just ended and triumphantly claimed itself a “return to cinema!”. 2021, which is turning out to be a lot more like 2020 than we were expecting, is certainly banging out ...
Collectif Jeune Cinéma at 50: A Subjective Conversation Raphaël Bassan, Théo Deliyannis and Viviane Vagh July 2021 Feature Articles In the midst of the present devastating economic and social planetary pandemic, the Collectif Jeune Cinéma (CJC) is celebrating its 50th anniversary of existence. Founded by Marcel Mazé (1940-2012) and some fri...
Welcome to Issue 75 of Our Journal the editors June 2015 Editorial Feature image: Aurore (Viviane Vagh, 2008) Around this time last year I found myself in Paris. Travel, when possible, affords the opportunity to catch up with many of Senses of Cinema’s overseas-based contrib...
2013 World Poll – Part 1 the editors January 2014 2013 World Poll THE ENTRIES PART 1 Francisco Algarín Navarro Victor Alicea Michael Anderson Geoff Andrew Julian Antos Armas Miguel Charlotte Aumont Sean Axmaker Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Raphaël...
Features the editors December 2012 Feature Articles Contents Love, Death, Truth–Amour by Roy Grundmann The Way Wakamatsu Chose His Own Fate: Political Mortality and Radical Dramaturgy by Philip Brophy Quotidian Melancholy: Marcel Hanoun’s Une simple his...
The Desire and the Exception Jacques Kermabon December 2012 Feature Articles We could have found many ways to celebrate our 100th Bref edition. We could have chosen to write about one or even many questions, some suitable issues that may have caught our attention in a page of history; w...
Cinema and Abstraction: From Bruno Corra to Hugo Verlinde Raphaël Bassan December 2011 Feature Articles An insightful historical survey of the practice and aesthetics of visual abstraction from silent cinema to the present.
Keeping Experimental and “Different Cinema” Alive! An Interview with Marcel Mazé Viviane Vagh December 2011 Feature Articles This year marks the 40th anniversary of France’s first filmmakers’ co-op, the Collectif Juene Cinéma. Marcel Mazé, founder and president, discusses its fascinating history.
Notes on Free Women/Femmes libres Grant Wiedenfeld July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh In a field dominated by intellectual showmanship and hermetic eccentricity, Viviane Vagh’s filmmaking speaks with a voice as familiar as it is poetic. Her latest film, Free Women/Femmes libres (2009), makes...
Welcome to issue 51 of our journal! the editors July 2009 Editorial After decades of being little more than an exotic location for overseas filmmakers and production companies, Australia was shocked in 1971 with the release of two films that would forever change all notions...
Cinema Unbound: Some notes on the 9th Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris Gabriela Trujillo April 2008 Festival Reports 4-7 December 2007 Roland Barthes said about cinema that “it granulates, it sizzles, it caresses, it rubs, it cuts: it comes”. The 9ème Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris deploys all these possibili...
“I Have Always Been Attracted to Painting”: Handwritten Notes Taken to Answer a Friend’s Questions, Written in 1984 Christian Lebrat August 2007 Feature Articles Christian Lebrat discusses the early phase of his career, including such works as Film numéro deux, Liminal Minimal and Autoportrait au dispositif.
Identity of Cinema: Experimental and Different Raphaël Bassan August 2007 Feature Articles A translation that first appeared in the French magazine Europe in 2006, in which Raphaël Bassan presents a myriad of stimulating reflections on the history of avant-garde and experimental cinema.
Welcome to issue 44 of our journal! the editors August 2007 Editorial Jonas Mekas has acquired the look of a wise old sage. It’s the look of someone who has seen much of the world and retained a sense of wonder – or, the look of someone who has spent a lifetime with his eye f...
2004 World Poll – Part 1 Various February 2005 2004 World Poll The Entries Acquarello Mubarak Ali Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Saul Austerlitz Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Steve Benedict Alexander Bisley Stephen Brower Thomas Caldwel...