FOCUS
4. Editorial by Ilona Halberstadt with Peter Wollen
see Welcome to PIX
TRACK OUT
36th LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
8. Womb Walking – Inbetween the LFF by Robert Crusz
11. Animation and Electronic Image – Cousins of the Tenth Muse by Jasia Reichardt
18. Victor Erice: The Quince Tree Sun – Film-makers Filming Painters Painting by Nick Wadley
24. Michelangelo Antonioni, Noto – mandorli – Vulcano – Stromboli – carnivale
i. Away from the Po Valley ii. Flashback: L’avventura – “A new cinematic language” by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
32. Mani Kaul, The Idiot – Senses/Spaces by Anup Singh
39. Zhang Yuan, Mama – Mama Heart Beats and Testimonies by Don Ranvaud
41. US Independents – Noir Nouveau by Woody Haut
46. Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo II: The Body Hammer
Faxnote on Fritz Lang’s Metropolis by Tsukamoto translated by Simon Prentis
Interview and The Poetics of Cyberpunk & Urban Rebirth by Andrew Korn
54. Amos Gitai, Golem, The Spirit of Exile
i. The Long Road by Edoardo Bruno translated by Judith Landry
ii. The Road To Jerusalem by Mikhail Yampolski
iii. Interview with Amos Gitai by Ilona Halberstadt
CLOSE UP
THE ART OF FRANCISZKA & STEFAN THEMERSON: FILM AS OPEN MEDIUM
68. Poem by ST
69. I am a Verb by ST
70. Lines & Words & the Themersons by Nick Wadley
74. A Fluorescent Box of Tricks by Stefan Themerson
78. Bi-Abstract Pictures by Franciszka Themerson
86. The Themersons and the Polish Avant-garde: Warsaw – Paris – London by A. L. Rees
102. Europa
104. The Adventure of a Good Citizen
106. Unposted Letters Drawings by Franciszka Themerson
107. Calling Mr Smith
108. The Eye and the Ear
110. Letters from ST to Aleksander Ford and Ernest Lindgren
115. How the Themersons turned me into a Translator by Barbara Wright
118. Opera by ST: Wolf eats Lamb eats Wolf – Culinary or Epic? by Michael Graubart
and A note on the question of orchestration from Alan Cohen
ZOOM IN
2ND ICA INDEPENDENT FILM & VIDEO BIENNIAL
123. Arrows of Desire: Fax(inter)view with Peter Wollen by IH
Vonnie’s Teenage Diary, Justice Sucks
Andrew Stone, History of Disaster
John Akomfrah, A Touch of the Tar Brush
Robert Crusz, Inbetween
Marjut Rimminen and Christine Roche, The Stain
Phil Mulloy, Possession
Chris Newby, Relax
Stuart Marshall, Robert Marshall
John Butler, Leisure Society
David Finch, Stone Steps
David Anderson, Door
David Cunningham, this moment
Peter Greenaway, M is for Man, Music, Mozart
Jayne Parker, The Pool
John Maybury, You Do Something to Me
Ulrike Ottinger, Taiga, 1992 [at the LFF]
Alia Syed, Fatima’s Letter
LONG SHOT
9° VIDEOBRASIL FESTIVAL, SÃO PAULO
131. Escalator journey – Hi-8 Video Diary by Tina Keane
Video Installations: Eder Santos, The Desert in my Mind (Brazil),
Barbara Hammann, Nest für Dachau (Germany), Luís Nicolau, La Traición de Judas (Spain),
Ulysses Nadruz, Postais do Brasil (Brazil), Timothy Binkley, Watch Yourself (New York)
VIEWFINDER
138. John Cage – Landscapes, Spaces, Silence by Howard Skempton
139. An Eskimo [Inuit] composes a Script for a Travel Film by Stefan Themerson
140. Mark Peploe
i. Interview by Ilona Halberstadt
ii. Afraid of the Dark by Juliet Mitchell
150. Stephen Dwoskin, Face of Our Fear by Paul Willemen
153. From the Cinema Theater to the Streets of San Francisco by Woody Haut
156. Going to the Cinema: Trincomalee in the late 1940s by John Howe
Image Credits
- Cover: PIX logo – frame by S Themerson from The Urge to Create Visions, Gaberbocchus Press, Amsterdam 1937/83;
Amos Gitai, Golem, The Spirit of Exile, France 1992; F and S Themerson, Europa, Warsaw 1931/2 - Apostrophe by Stefan Themerson for Raymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style, translated by Barbara Wright, 1958
- Robert Crusz, Inbetween, UK 1992
- On the set of Deep Cover, USA 1992, the director Bill Duke with Jeff Goldblum
- Shinya Tsukamoto, The Adventure of Denchu Kozo, Super 8mm, Japan 1987
- Golem, The Spirit of Exile
- Europa
- Alia Syed, Fatima’s Letter, UK 1992
- Phil Mulloy, Possession, UK 1991
- Tina Keane, Circus – Acrobat, neon-video-installation, UK 1992
- Mark Peploe, Afraid of the Dark, UK 1991
- Stephen Dwoskin, Face of Our Fear, UK 1992