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Since its inception in the 1970s, the Millennium Film Journal has documented the multiple transformations of the cinematic in the hands of artists, giving a voice to a community that tended toward marginality.

“Both Malena Szlam’s Archipelago of Earthen Bones—To Bunya and Richard Touhy and Dianna Barrie’s The Land at Night situa...
16/08/2025

“Both Malena Szlam’s Archipelago of Earthen Bones—To Bunya and Richard Touhy and Dianna Barrie’s The Land at Night situate their works in the otherworldly aspects of specific Australian locations. The former addresses the landscape of the Gondwana Rainforests, superimposing distant vistas with defamiliarizing close ups of the geography it records; the latter casts the expanses of a variety of empty spaces in twilight, signaling but eluding human presence."⁠
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— MFJ Contributing Editor Sarah Keller on NYFF62 Currents Programming, now available to read via our website.⁠
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📸: Malena Szlam, Archipelago of Earthen Bones—To Bunya (2024), frame enlargement (cropped) Courtesy the artist.

“These are personal memories presented through journeys. Cartography is used in the film to represent movement instead o...
14/08/2025

“These are personal memories presented through journeys. Cartography is used in the film to represent movement instead of political borders; each place existing thanks to a personal touch. At the same time, one can feel the presence of natural elements such as water through sea, river or rain, wind in the form of the soft gestures of clothes, or destruction like storms and fire."⁠
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— Ignacio Szmulewicz R. on Natalia Lassalle-Morillo's community-based video art in "Water is a word to be said with the help of others" in our current issue MFJ81 available now⁠
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📸: Natalia Lassalle-Morillo, En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy, Part I (2024). Frame enlargement (cropped). Courtesy the artist.

“Poetry Is Not A Luxury, Currents’ sixth shorts program, positioned legacies of resistance—spanning continents, generati...
12/08/2025

“Poetry Is Not A Luxury, Currents’ sixth shorts program, positioned legacies of resistance—spanning continents, generations—at the brink of disappearance. A trace, be it a photo, a sound, a piece of graffiti, sparks a reverie of grasping recollections, disconnected fibres fraying out of focus."⁠
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— Dylan Adamson on NYFF62 Currents Programming, now available to read via our website.⁠
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📸: Kevin Jerome Everson, Practice, Practice, Practice (2024), frame enlargement (cropped) Courtesy the artist.

“Cinema is a time machine: we can conjure traces of our past, we can project ourselves into the future. With Incident, c...
08/08/2025

“Cinema is a time machine: we can conjure traces of our past, we can project ourselves into the future. With Incident, cinema is no longer simply a time machine, it is a space machine, a truth machine, a vision machine, a power machine."⁠
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— Pip Chodorov on Bill Morrison's "Incident" (2023) in our current issue MFJ81 available now⁠
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📸: Bill Morrison, Incident (2023), frame enlargements (cropped) Courtesy the artist.

“The duality of nature and artifice is loosened and re-formed, loosely along the lines of the fashionable concept of ent...
06/08/2025

“The duality of nature and artifice is loosened and re-formed, loosely along the lines of the fashionable concept of entanglement in physics, though here extended to embrace the wider world, in order to restructure traditional models of observer and observed.⁠"⁠
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— MFJ Contributing Editor Nicky Hamlyn on Zuza Banasińska's film Grandmamauntsistercat, as part of our NYFF62 Currents coverage now available to read via our website.⁠
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📸: Zuza Banasińska, Grandmamauntsistercat (2024), frame enlargement (cropped) Courtesy the artist.

London! Tonight! MFJ will be at Close-Up Film Centre⁠ for a special screening celebrating the launch of MFJ No. 81 “Dedi...
04/06/2025

London! Tonight! MFJ will be at Close-Up Film Centre⁠ for a special screening celebrating the launch of MFJ No. 81 “Dedication”. We hope to see you there!⁠
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More info and tickets vis our website 🎞️⁠
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4 June 2025⁠
8.15 - 10pm⁠
Close-Up Film Centre⁠
97 Sclater Street, London

🎉 Next week on June 4 we'll be in London for another screening at Close-Up Film Centre!⁠⁠This program celebrates the lau...
29/05/2025

🎉 Next week on June 4 we'll be in London for another screening at Close-Up Film Centre!⁠
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This program celebrates the launch of MFJ No. 81 “Dedication” and consists of works discussed in the issue. Reflecting themes of grief and resilience, the program includes work from recently departed artists who left their indelible mark on experimental film history, alongside new work from emerging filmmakers who push film language to its ecstatic limits.⁠
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Programmed by Grahame Weinbren, Vince Warne, and Jonathan Ellis.⁠
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More info and tickets at our website⁠ 🎞️⁠
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4 June 2025⁠
8.15 - 10pm⁠
Close-Up Film Centre⁠
97 Sclater Street, London⁠
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🎞️: Narcisa Hirsch, “Taller” (Workshop) (1974), frame enlargements. Courtesy the Estate of Narcisa Hirsch.

🎉 Tomorrow May 14 we'll be heading to our screening in San Francisco hosted by Canyon Cinema! We can't wait to see you a...
13/05/2025

🎉 Tomorrow May 14 we'll be heading to our screening in San Francisco hosted by Canyon Cinema! We can't wait to see you all!!⁠
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🤩 We are pleased to be joined by Lynne Sachs, who will speak on her friendship with Gunvor Nelson. Also, MFJ Editor Nicholas Gamso in person! 🤩⁠
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This Salon event is free and open to the public, with refreshments served beginning at 7pm and the doors closed for the start of the show at 7:30. ⁠
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Dedication: A Salon with Millennium Film Journal ⁠
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm)⁠
Artists’ Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco⁠
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🎞️: Sundown (Steve Reinke) frame enlargement

Alongside the release of are four online articles including:⁠⁠"Sara Cwynar's Baby Blue Benzo" reviewed by Marcus Civin...
09/05/2025

Alongside the release of are four online articles including:⁠
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"Sara Cwynar's Baby Blue Benzo" reviewed by Marcus Civin —
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"Like a sampling from a restless night filled with symbolic dreams, the video limns a battle with insomnia that arouses a fixation with the rare, vaguely pill-shaped 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR."⁠
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Read the review available for free on our website now.⁠

📷️: Sara Cwynar, Baby Blue Benzo (2024), frame enlargement (cropped). Courtesy the artist.

🎉 We're so excited to be hosting our first screening in San Francisco next week, Wednesday May 14, with Canyon Cinema! 🤩...
09/05/2025

🎉 We're so excited to be hosting our first screening in San Francisco next week, Wednesday May 14, with Canyon Cinema!

🤩Lynne Sachs and MFJ Editor Nicholas Gamso in person!🤩

Dedication: A Salon with Millennium Film Journal
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 @ 7:30pm (doors 7pm)
Artists’ Television Access, 992 Valencia Street, San Francisco

This selection of short moving image pieces—all discussed in recent issues of the Millennium Film Journal—will celebrate the release of MFJ no. 81, “Dedication.” The screening will include film and video works by Vincent Grenier, Gunvor Nelson, Lynne Sachs, Steve Reinke, Eva Giolo, as well as the West Coast premiere of Kevin Jerome Everson’s Practice, Practice, Practice (2024), which takes place at San Francisco City Hall.

This Salon event is free and open to the public, with refreshments served beginning at 7pm and the doors closed for the start of the show at 7:30.

🎞️: Tabula Rasa (Vincent Grenier,) frame enlargement.

💐 TOMORROW Wednesday May 7th, we're celebrating the launch of MFJ No. 81 “Dedication” with a screening at Anthology Film...
06/05/2025

💐 TOMORROW Wednesday May 7th, we're celebrating the launch of MFJ No. 81 “Dedication” with a screening at Anthology Film Archives in NYC! ⁠
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Tickets are available from our website and on the door.
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Reflecting themes of grief and resilience, the program includes work from recently departed artists who left their indelible mark on experimental film history, alongside new work from emerging filmmakers who push film language to its ecstatic limits.⁠
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Programmed by Grahame Weinbren, Vince Warne, and Jonathan Ellis. ⁠
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Malcolm Le Grice AFTER LUMIERE (1974, 13 min)⁠
Louis Lumière L’ARROSEUR ARROSE (1895, 1 min)⁠
Chris Kennedy GO BETWEEN (2024, 6 min)⁠
Zuza Banasinska Grandmamauntsistercat (2024, 23 min)⁠
Gunvor Nelson MY NAME IS OONA (1969, 10 min)⁠
Christina Jauernik & Johann Lurf REVOLVING ROUNDS (2024, 11 min)⁠
Narcisa Hirsch TALLER (WORKSHOP) (1974, 10 min)⁠
Christoph Janetzko WALD – THE FOREST (2023, 13 min)⁠
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📷️: Johann Lurf and Christina Jauernik, Revolving Rounds (2024), frame enlargement (cropped). Courtesy the artist.

Alongside the release of are four online articles including:⁠⁠"Opening and Opening: The Worldmaking of Ben Rivers" int...
30/04/2025

Alongside the release of are four online articles including:⁠
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"Opening and Opening: The Worldmaking of Ben Rivers" interviewed by Hannah Bonner —⁠
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"Rivers’ peripatetic lifestyle allows him to cultivate connections with a myriad of people during filming, who are typically far removed from the film world and its usual subjects. In addition to being a prolific filmmaker and cinephile, Rivers is also an avid reader who can speak with ease about poetry, prose, or theory. Often drawing from all corners of his eclectic interests, Rivers’s work defies easy categorization, and he likes it that way."⁠
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Read “Opening and Opening: The Worldmaking of Ben Rivers” available for free on our website now.⁠
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📷️: Ben Rivers, The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015),frame enlargement (cropped). Courtesy the artist.

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MFJ No. 68

This issue includes reviews of recent exhibitions, festivals and screenings, articles on the Berlin Biennale and filmmaker Ivan Ladislav Galeta, artist pages by Rose Lowder, and a visit to Dustin Grella’s studio in the South Bronx. Our launch screening is at Anthology Film Archives on November 14th at 7:30. Copies of the issue can be purchased at mfj-online.org