For a film journal whose self-understanding is decidedly socio-political, publishing a special issue on “politics” is almost a tautological act. Which of our three latest special issues – on sex, on war & genocide, and on Chernobyl – are anything but political? And yet there is a sense in which this month’s coverage is political...
Łukasz Mojsak returns to a Przemysław Branas video created for last year’s VIEWS 2017 exhibition in Warsaw, unearthing historical and topical themes of violence.
Maria Kuvshinova reflects on the bar set by Ukrainian filmmaker Sentsov for measuring dignity. Sentsov recently went on a hunger strike demanding the release of Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia, where he himself is serving a 20-year sentence.
In his essay on the Polaroids of Andrei Tarkovsky, Gawan Fagard draws parallels between the ontology of the medium and the work of the Russian director.
