CLOSE UP

6. “Moviecraze” by Vladimir Mayakovsky and “Charlie Chaplin/Stepped out of the cinema” by Osip Mandelstam, translated by Maria Enzensberger
10. “Long live the poetry of the moving and movable machine”: Mayakovsky, the post-revolutionary avant-gardes and early Soviet cinema by Maria Enzensberger
26. Mayakovsky, Fettered by Film recollected by Lili Brik
30. Poetry readings by Ilona Halberstadt
32. The polyphony of Soviet Cinema by Ian Christie

TRACK OUT

43. Walter Reisch: Vienna – Berlin – London – Hollywood by Thomas Elsaesser
68. Brigitte Helm 1926 1930 1934: three poems and drawings by Stanley Chapman
70. Interview with Patrick Bauchau by David Thompson

ZOOM IN

85. Guerrilla conditions: The cinema of William Seward Burroughs by Peter Wollen
96. Painting the lily: adapting Burroughs for stage and screen by John Howe
102. Cronenberg’s reading of Burroughs’ Naked Lunch and Ballard’s Crash by Woody Haut
112. Cronenberg, eXistenZ – Being and Becoming by Nick James

LONG SHOT

115. Flaherty by Lionel Rogosin
118. Journeys to the North Pole by Michael Parsons
130. Remembering Luca Comerio, (Gianikian & Ricci Lucchi, From the Pole to the Equator) by Don Ranvaud
132. Blood and Ice: images of Nicholas Ray (The Savage Innocents) by James Leahy
145. Vladimir Mayakovsky, Mystery Bouffe
146. Lionel Rogosin, On the Bowery
148. Lionel Rogosin, Come Back, Africa: A Haunting Song by Michael Wolfers
151. Come Back, Africa at the Durban International Film Festival by Ros Sarkin

VIEWFINDER

153. Light plays primal scenes by David Curtis
168. How do I look: the photographs of Caroline Kerr by Paul Willemen
177. Animating the Wheel of Life: Rémi and the return of the Zoetrope by John Willett

FOCUS

185. “A Forgetful Blink”: eighteen poems by Mani Kaul

Image Credits

1. Cover: Oskar Fischinger, Radio Dynamics, 1942; poster by Mayakovsky, Not Born to be Rich, 1918; poster, Song of Scheherezade, 1948
2. Poster by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Fettered by Film, 1918
3. Eric Rohmer, La Collectionneuse, Patrick Bauchau with Mijanou, 1966
4. William Burroughs and Brion Gysin in their film The Cut-Ups, 1966
5. Nicholas Ray, frames of Fred Hampton’s apartment after his murder, 1969
6. Caroline Kerr, Long Time Dead, photograph, 1996