Screen Attachments: An Introduction
© Isaac Julien In an essay published in 2000 Anne Friedberg observed: Now, a variety of screens – long and wide and square, large and small, composed of grains, composed…
Cinema Lost and Found: Trajectories of Relocation
Alfredo The movie theatre is already completely full and, at the entrance, a small crowd keeps pressing to enter. In the projection booth, Alfredo is working, as usual, with the…
DVD Screen Culture for Children: Theories of Play and Young Viewers
The viewing practices of film audiences have undergone some significant changes over the last few decades, particularly since the release of films in DVD format. DVDs, as John Thornton Caldwell…
Brief Encounters: Theorizing Screen Attachments Outside the Movie Theatre
© Isaac Julien We should note that the word “emotion” comes from Latin, emovere, referring to ‘to move, to move out’. Of course, emotions are not only about movement,…
Fingers, Futures, Fates: Viewing Interactive Cinema in Kinoautomat and Sufferrosa
Introduction Why do we sit so close [to the screen]? Maybe it was because we wanted to receive the images first. When they were still new, still fresh. Michael Pitt…
Waterbodies: Moving-image installations at Termemilano Spa
unless a man be born again of water John 3.5 In recent years, the health spa experience has become a popular and widespread social practice. The quest for bodily relaxation…
A Minoritarian Digital Poetics of YouTube
[Martin Arnold, excerpt from Alone] I Does the short digital video shared over the Internet constitute a form or genre of its own? Do such digital movies have a particular…
Rethinking Screen Encounters: Cinema and Tamil Migrant Workers in Singapore
Introduction Over a five month period — August to December 2010 — I conducted field research in Singapore where I interviewed 40 South Asian migrant workers engaged in both skilled…