Monograph /

Tom Roberts

Performing the image: Joan Jonas' Glass Puzzle

Isla Leaver-Yap analyses the context, feminist strategies and mirror hall of meanings around this little-discussed and enigmatic video "puzzle in space."

Dispatch /

Tom Roberts

Notes from Los Angeles

Guided by recent readings of Los Angeles made with and through its films, George Clark maps an introduction to the history and current state of the city's artists' cinema.

Writing on Film /

Tom Roberts

A commentary on Farber on Film

Manny Farber described a spectator emerging from a 1950s big city fleapit into the daylight, "like a pirate discharged from a giant sponge." His film reviews seem to start from a point of having partially absorbed a movie, and taken on some of its properties.

Review /

Tom Roberts

56th Oberhausen Short Film Festival

Dan Kidner reflects on this year's selections, exploring the Early Cinema and No Wave programmes as ways of considering the nature and context of short film itself.

Artist's Project /

Tom Roberts

Beatrice Gibson

Artist Beatrice Gibson discusses ideas around collective production and improvisation in a round-table conversation with pianist John Tilbury and editor/typographer Will Holder.