The Returned Gaze of the Past: Patricio Guzmán’s ‘The First Year’
Films like The First Year play a crucial role in how nations negotiate and re-negotiate their self-image, and its reemergence is yet another step forward for post-Pinochet Chile.
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Postcolonial Re-imaginings in Mambèty’s ‘Touki Bouki’
Restored by the World Cinema Project and now available from The Criterion Collection, Djibril Diop Mambéty's cheeky critique of colonialism, Touki Bouki (Journey of the Hyena) reveals a great act of myth-making.
Bill Gunn’s ‘Personal Problems’ and a History of the Video Revolution
Kino Lorber's release of Personal Problems can be seen as a major intervention in recovering "lost" videotapes, representing an important black collective creative contribution of US grassroots videomaking.
Film’s Overlooked Histories: Charles Burnett and the L.A. Rebellion
The general absence of the L.A. Rebellion from most film history text books and Burnett's relative marginalization within film and media studies speaks to the socio-economic myopia and privileges that define both areas of study.