On INCITE! A journal of experimental media & radical aesthetics

An image from Michael Robinson's Victory Over the Sun (2007)

A shivering, but purposefully heroic, Film Studies For Free has crept out from its cosy igloo in order to excite some more, much merited, interest in INCITE!, the online and Open Access journal of experimental media & radical aesthetics.  

INCITE! describes itself thus:

Merging handmade and online platforms, this hybrid [on and off-line] publication addresses the lack of critical attention afforded film and media artists working today. In addition to scholarly articles, INCITE! publishes aesthetic statements, manifestos, artist projects, multiples, archival documents, interviews, reviews, and hastily drawn plans.

Stationing ourselves at the cross-flow of research, scholarship, and creation, we encourage personal writing, critical poetics, and radical approaches to film and media.

Issue # 1: Manifest appeared in Fall 2008 -- see the wonderful list of contents below.

Issue # 2 "Counter-Archive," which should go online in early 2010, is thus much anticipated. But the journal has also just launched "Back & Forth," a new monthly interview series.

In the first edition of the series, Cat Tyc talks to the poetic pop recycler Michael Robinson about his filmmaking roots, cultural references, thematic trajectories, and future directions (see also Michael Sicinski's wonderful Cinema-Scope article about Robinson here).

You can follow INCITE! on Twitter and join its Facebook group here.

Issue # 1: Manifest Fall 2008

Introduction Brett Kashmere Where Are We Now?

Dossier: The Life, Death, and Life of Film
Rick Hancox Film – Is There a Future in Our Past? (The Afterlife of Latent Images)
Gerda Cammaer Film: Another Death, Another Life
Carl Brown AFTER: A Beginner’s Guide to Alchemy
Independent Imaging Retreat FILM FARM 1994-2006: Films, Excerpts & Video Diaries
Ken Paul Rosenthal Shot of Solitude: Hand (and Heart) Processing on the Film Farm
Additional Reading

 

Manifestos
Association for Film Art Manifesto
Atelier national du Manitoba The Horizontalist Manifesto / Les Horizontalistes: manifeste
Michael Betancourt ____________ Manifesto
Double Negative Collective Manifesto
Dumba Mission Statement / Manifesta
Richard Kerr The Aesthetic WOW!
The League Manifesto
Jonas Mekas Anti-100 Years of Cinema Manifesto
Regina Muff Thus Spake Zarathustra
Peter Nowogrodzki The Pesto Manifesto
Syracuse Experimental There’s More to Filmmaking than Making Films
Ryan Tebo RAMers generation manifest

More Manifestos

Articles
Scott MacKenzie ‘Be Realistic: Demand The Impossible’, or, A Secret History of Film Manifestos
Solomon Nagler Winnipeg Eats Itself: L’Atelier national du Manitoba's Scheme for Sovereignty
Georgette Nicolaides The Good/Bad Art Collective of Denton, Texas
Scott Berry Brooklyn Babylon Cinema

Interviews
Steve Polta Masochism of the Margins: An Interview with Craig Baldwin
Brett Kashmere Against the Current: A Two-Part Interview with Karl Lemieux (and Daïchi Saïto)

Lists
Rick Hancox Bibliography
Karl Lemieux Filmography
Double Negative List of Screenings & Events
The League List of Works & Happenings
Syracuse Experimental Summary of Activities

Artist Projects
Clint Enns light is the first bodily form
Leslie Supnet Hand Cranked VHS
Kenneth White Directions of Encounter