Writing — Ed Halter

Selected Writing

2024

Wolf Vostell, 4Columns, April 12, 2024

Excerpt from “Yesterday Once More,” Screen Slate, March 18, 2024.

2023

“Yesterday Once More,” essay for Luther Price: New Utopia and Light Fracture, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 2023

"TVTV, Four More Years," in Signals: How Video Transformed the World, MoMA, March 5 - July 8, 2023

"Working Models," in Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century, Whitney Museum, April 19 - Aug 13, 2023

Travess Smalley, 4Columns, April 28, 2023

“The Dream of Takandros,” Wyrm, Volume 2, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2023

Gay Girls Riding Club, The New York Review, June 25, 2023

John Szwed, Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith, 4Columns, September 15, 2023

2022

"Andy Warhol: Revelation" at the Brooklyn Museum, 4Columns, January 7, 2022

"In His Own Words: Edward Owens," Little Joe 6, 2022

Jeff Tremaine, Jackass Forever, The New Yorker, February 4, 2022

"Portrait, Landscape," on the films of Luke Fowler, republished by Metrograph, February 4, 2022

"Jonas Mekas, Life Itself," in Jonas Mekas The Camera Was Always Running, Jewish Museum / Lithuanian National Museum of Art, 2022

"Today, in a Hundred Years," on the Otolith Group, Artforum, May 2022

Joseph Kosinski, Top Gun: Maverick, 4Columns, June 3, 2022

Serge Daney, The Cinema House & The World, Film Comment, September 19, 2022

Nicholas Stoller, Bros, 4Columns, October 7, 2022

2021

“Remembering,” with Matt Wolf, Flash Flaherty: Tales from a Film Seminar, ed. Scott MacDonald and Patricia R. Zimmerman, Indiana University Press, 2021

"An Immaterial Monument for Thomas Morton," republished in New Red Order's The New Red Times Magazine, May 2021.

"Like a Fox: The Cinema of Peggy Ahwesh," Mousse 77, October 5, 2021

Denis Villeneuve, Dune, 4Columns, October 22, 2021

2020

“Edge of Tomorrow,” in Olia Lialina: Net Artist, Les Presses du Réel, 2020

High Maintenance, 4Columns, April 3, 2020

Weegee, Naked City, 4Columns, April 10, 2020

"Cut. And Action. [on the Cinema Worker Solidarity Fund]", with Thomas Beard, Nellie Killian and Sierra Pettingill, Artforum, May/June 2020

“JODI,” 4Columns, June 8, 2020

2019

Robert Mapplethorpe, Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now at the Guggenheim Museum, 4Columns, February 15, 2019

“Passages: Jonas Mekas,” Artforum, March 2019

Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture at Film Forum, 4Columns, March 8, 2019

“Transactional Analysis: The American Films of Nick Broomfield,” in America: Films from Elsewhere, ed. Shanay Jhaveri, The Shoestring Publisher, 2019

"From Beyond," reprinted in expanded form in catalog for Huma Bhabha: They Live, ICA Boston, March 23 - May 27, 2019.

Monumental Journey: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 4Columns, April 5, 2019

"The Plastic Pulse Ticks On: (Ryan Trecartin + Lizzie Fitch) x Parker Tyler," catalog essay for Whether Line: Lizzie Fitch | Ryan Trecartin, at Fondazione Prada, April 6 - August 5, 2019.

“Contempo Casuals” in Mike Galinsky, The Decline of Mall Civilization, Rumur, 2019

"Mass Effect: On Art and the Distributed Spectacle," with Lauren Cornell, reprinted in Museums at the Post-Digital Turn, Mousse Publishing, 2019

"Tessa Hughes-Freeland," catalog essay for Tessa Hughes-Freeland: Passed and Present, Howl! A/P/E, 2019

Jack Hazan, A Bigger Splash, 4Columns, June 28, 2019

Derek Jarman, Protest!, Artforum, September 1, 2019

The Life and Times of Alvin Baltrop at Bronx Museum of Arts, 4Columns, September 9, 2019

"Old Joy: Northwest Passages," Criterion, December 12, 2019

2018

From the Third Eye: The Evergreen Review Reader, edited with Barney Rosset, Seven Stories Press, 2018

"From Beyond," essay for Huma Bhabha: We Come in Peace, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018

Michael Gracey, The Greatest Showman, 4Columns, January 5, 2018

"Ed Halter and Matt Wolf Remembering," Flaherty Stories blog, January 18, 2018

Peter Hujar, Speed of Life at The Morgan Library & Museum, 4Columns, March 9, 2018

“Art in the Age of the Internet” at ICA Boston, 4Columns, March 30, 2018

Emile de Antonio, 4Columns, April 27, 2018

Seth Price, 4Columns, June 8, 2018

Pose, 4Columns, June 22, 2018

John Waters, Female Trouble, The Criterion Collection, June 26, 2018

Before Projection: Video Sculpture 1975-1995 at SculptureCenter, 4Columns, October 12, 2018

“Top Ten - Film,” Artforum, December 2018

2017

"Nasty Women," Artforum, January 23, 2017

Amy Sillman, After Metamorphoses, 4Columns, March 10, 2017

"Beyond Godzilla: Alternative Futures & Fantasies in Japanese Cinema” at Japan Society, New York, 4Columns, March 24, 2017.

"Ben Rivers: Ways of Worldmaking," essay for Ben Rivers: Ways of Worldmaking, Mousse Publishing, 2017

"Objects and Events," essay for Anthony McCall, Lismore Castle Arts, 2017

"Time Dilation," essay for Seth Price: Social Synthetic, Stedelijk Museum, 2017

Ian Cheng, Emissaries, 4Columns, April 26, 2017

Matt Reeves, War for the Planet of the Apes, 4Columns, July 14, 2017

Alan Clarke, 4Columns, August 4, 2017

Mike Kuchar, Drawings by Mike! at Anton Kern gallery, 4Columns, September 22, 2017

Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049, 4Columns, October 13, 2017

Club 57 at MoMA, 4Columns, December 8, 2017

“My Top Ten Films for 2017,” December 22, 2017

2016

Ian White, Here is Information. Mobilise., 4Columns, December 30, 2016

Mark Leckey, Containers and Their Drivers, 4Columns, November 25, 2016

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, 4Columns, September 23, 2016

"Target Audiences: The Films of Marlon Riggs," Artforum, Summer 2016

"The Truth About Cats and Dogs," catalog essay for Zak Kitnick, C & D, C L E A R I N G Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, May 3, 2016 - June 26, 2016

“Time Frames: Three Episodes in the Evolution of Digital Cinema,” essay for Electronic Superhighway catalog, (Whitechapel Gallery, 2016)

“‘A Spy, or Something’: The Cinema of Danny Lyon,” essay for Danny Lyon: Message to the Future (Whitney Museum, 2016)

“Laura Poitras: Astro Noise,” Artforum, January 1, 2016

2015

Co-editor, with Lauren Cornell, Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the 21st Century (MIT/The New Museum)

“Out of the Past,” Liner notes for Blu-Ray of Jonas Mekas’s Walden and Lost, Lost, Lost (Kino Lorber)

“After Effects,” essay on the films of Hito Steyerl, Parkett Volume 97

“Pop and Cinema: Three Tendencies,” essay for International Pop catalog (Walker Art Center, 2015)

“Ed Halter in Conversation with Peter Hutton,” Bard Papers, 2015

“Immaterial Monument for Thomas Morton, attempted in Three Parts,” essay for the exhibition Ma-re Mount, Galerie Buchholz, January 2015

“A Listener’s Guide to Scorpio Rising,” Walker Art Center online magazine, August 2015

“Pop Cinema at its Best Pop: George Kuchar’s Hold Me While I’m Naked,” Walker Art Center online magazine, July 2015

“Light and Freedom: William Klein’s Pop Politics,” Walker Art Center online magazine, June 2015

“Will You Be My Version? On James Richards,” Afterall 28, Spring 2015

2014

“Berkeley, 1933,” Bard Papers, 2014

“Body Bags,” essay on Stanya Kahn’s Don’t Go Back to Sleep, commissioned by Grand Arts, 2015

“In and Out of Time: The Motion Pictures of James Nares,” in James Nares (Rizzoli, 2014)

Foreword, You Are Here: Art after the Internet, ed. Omar Kholeif (Cornerhouse, 2014)

“For Bill Douglas,” in Future Perfect, ed. Andrew Durbin (Publication Studio, 2014)

The videos of Amy Sillman, Artforum, Summer 2014

Ryan Trecartin at KW Institute, Artforum, September 2014

“In Search Of : The art of Guthrie Lonergan,” Artforum, November 2014

“Travel Agents: Alain Resnais’s Je t’aime, je t’aime and the cinematic time machine,” Artforum, February 2014

2013

"Ed Halter on the year in Sci-Fi catastrophes," Artforum, December 28, 2013

"Head Space: Notes on the Recent History of a Self-Sustained Exhibition Scene for American Experimental Cinema" (2004), revised and republished in Incite Journal of Experimental Media, Issue #4 Exhibition Guide, 2013

"Straight to Video," essay for Raymond Pettibon (Rizzoli, 2013)

"Mass Effect," with Lauren Cornell, Mousse Magazine No. 41, December 2013

"A Lexicon For Paper Rad," Bard Papers, Vol. XLVII, 2013

"Summer Preview: Ericka Beckman," Artforum, May 2013

"Remains Luther Price," catalog essay for the International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, May 2013

"Portrait, Landscape," catalog essay for Luke Fowler's exhibition at The Hopkins Center for the Arts, Dartmouth College, Apr 2 - May 5, 2013

"Hell is for Children" republished in catalog for the 2013 Courtesan Festival, April 17-21

"Winter Preview: Michel Auder," Artforum, January 2013

2012

“The Hall of Mirrors,” essay for R.W. Fassbinder’s World on a Wire, Criterion Collection

“The New Materialism,” Printed Project 15 (ed. Vivienne Dick)

“Meeting Strangers: Red Light, Green Light,” The Little Joe Clubhouse Reader, April 13-15

“Nostalgia for an Age Yet to Come,” essay for A Hollis Frampton Odyssey, Criterion Collection

“Interview with Luther Price,” Mousse Magazine, No. 36, December 2012

“Hell is for Children,” on Leslie Thornton’s Peggy and Fred in Hell, Artforum, September 2012

“The Greatest Films Poll,” for Sight and Sound

“Tomorrow Never Knows,” Robert Sheckley’s Store of the Worlds review, Bookforum, Summer

“Amos Vogel: Life as a Subversive Art,” Idiom, April 26 (originally written in 2004)

“Passages: George Kuchar, 1942-2011,” Artforum, February

2011

“The Centaur and the Hummingbird,” catalog essay for Free, New Museum

Liner Notes, Susan Sontag’s Promised Lands, Zeitgeist

Contributor, Performa 09: Back to Futurism, Performa

“Dead Flowers Film Screenings,” in Dead Flowers, Vox Populi/Participant Press, 2011.

Conversation with George Kuchar, Little Joe No. 3, December 2011

"Best Films of 2011," Artforum, December 2011

"Cosineve and the Old Internet," Red Hook Journal of Curatorial Studies, Issue 1

Ben Rivers, Mousse #28, April 2011

Manuel DeLanda, Moving Image Source, March 4, 2011

“Harun Farocki: 500 Words”, Artforum, February 2, 2011

2010

"The Mirror of Lost Time," in Signal Fires. El cine de Jem Cohen / The Cinema of Jem Cohen,

Punto de Vista Collection, 2010

"Again," catalog essay for Elisabeth Subrin: Her Compulsion to Repeat, Sue Scott Gallery, 2010

Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000 at Pacific Film Archive / SF Cinematheque, Artforum, November 2010

Segundo de Chomón, Artforum, October 8, 2010

"Top Ten," Artforum, October 2010

"Life in Film: Thomas Beard & Ed Halter," Frieze, September 2010

Stephanie Barber, Afterall, July 29, 2010

Andrew Lampert, BOMB, Summer 2010

Matthew Barney's "Cremaster" cycle, Artforum, May 11, 2010

Kevin Jerome Everson, Artforum, May 2010

Jia Zhangke, Artforum, March 5, 2010

William E. Jones, Artforum, February 22, 2010

"The Matter of Electronics," Vague Terrain, February 3, 2010

Bruce McClure, Artforum, January 2010

2009

"The Matter of Electronics," catalog essay for Playlist: Playing Games, Music Art at Laboral, Gijon, Spain,

December 18, 2009-May 17, 2010

"Robert Gardner: A Life in Film," catalog essay for weekend honoring Robert Gardner at Bard College, October 22-25, 2009 (Reprinted by Independencia as "On Robert Gardner")

"Jarman's Monadology," catalog essay for The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art at Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK, October 10, 2009-January 10, 2010

"Eleven Evocations (For Paper Rad)," catalog essay for Deterioration, They Said, migros museum, Zürich, Switzerland, August 29-November 8, 2009

Liner notes, Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy, Oscilloscope DVD, 2009

"Pattern Recognition: Lucinda Childs's Dance," program essay for Lucinda Childs's Dance at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, July 9-12, 2009

"Worlds Within Worlds: Eddo Stern's Mind-Body Games," catalog essay for Eddo Stern: Flamewar, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel, January 24-June 20, 2009

Interview with Brody Condon, Public Art Review, Fall/Winter 2009

Joan Braderman, The Heretics, Artforum, October 5, 2009

The New York Film Festival's Views from the Avant-Garde, Artforum, October 1, 2009

Candice Breitz at Toronto International Film Festival, Rhizome, September 28, 2009

Vivienne Dick, Artforum, September 25, 2009

Toronto International Film Festival 2009, Artforum, September 21, 2009

"Eleven Evocations (For Paper Rad)," Rhizome, September 2, 2009

Lisandro Alonso, Liverpool, Artforum, August 31, 2009

Cinemad: Almanac 2009, Artforum, June 26, 2009

Slatan Dudow, Kuhle Wampe, or Who Owns the World?, Artforum, June 17, 2009

Ken Jacobs, Anaglyph Tom, Artforum, May 12, 2009

Interview with John Crowley, The Believer, May 2009

"After the Amateur: Notes," Rhizome, April 29, 2009

13 Most Beautiful...Songs for Andy Warhol's Screen Tests, Artforum, April 13, 2009

Derek Jarman's Super 8 films, Artforum, April 2009

George Barber, Artforum, March 20, 2009

Christiane Paul, New Media in the White Cube and Beyond, Rhizome, March 18, 2009

8mm films by George and Mike Kuchar, Artforum, March 10, 2009

Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film 1947-1986, Moving Image Source, March 5, 2009

Gustav Deutsch, Artforum, February 19, 2009

"Television for the People" [on Jeff Krulik], Triple Canopy #5, February 2009

Bruce Baillie, Artforum, January 27, 2009

Jean-Luc Godard, Made in USA, Artforum, January 1, 2009

2008

"James Fotopoulos," published in Exile Cinema: Filmmakers Working Beyond Hollywood, ed. Michael Atkinson, SUNY, 2008

Interview with Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder, Live Cinema: A Contemporary Reader, ed. Thomas Beard, SF Cinematheque, unpublished.

Group blog participant, In What Respect Charlie?, 2008

"Get it? An Interview with Cory Arcangel on Comedy," Rhizome, December 24, 2008

Wang Bing, Fengming: A Chinese Memoir, Artforum, December 5, 2008

Jerry Lewis, The Total Film-Maker, Artforum, November 19, 2008

Jennifer Reeves, When It Was Blue, Artforum, October 27, 2008

JODI, GEO GOO (Info Park) at iMAL, Rhizome, October 22, 2008

Ken Jacobs on tank.tv, Rhizome, October 14, 2008

Superstruct, Rhizome, October 19, 2008

Tokyo Game Show's "Sense of Wonder Night," Rhizome, October 7, 2008

New York Film Festival's "Views from the Avant-Garde," Artforum, October 1, 2008

video_dumbo 2008, Rhizome, September 26, 2008

Molleindustria, The Free Culture Game, Rhizome, September 24, 2008

Kota Ezawa at Murray Guy, Rhizome, September 22, 2008

Shane Hope at Schroeder Romero / Winkelman Gallery Project Space, Rhizome, September 19, 2008

"Avatar: the New You" at the Australian Centre for Photography, Rhizome, September 15, 2008

"New Blood" at Vertextlist, Rhizome, September 10, 2008

Robert Downey Sr., Moving Image Source, September 8, 2008

"Thermostat: Video and the Pacific Northwest" at Seattle Art Museum, Rhizome, August 29, 2008

"A Series of 'Tubes" (Constant Dullaart, Ben Coonley, Cory Arcangel), Rhizome, August 25, 2008

Jonathan Soderstrom / Cactus, Rhizome, August 20, 2008

NETMARES & NETDREAMS v 2.0, Rhizome, August 15, 2008

Jason Rohrer, Rhizome, August 8, 2008

Art and Technology at LACMA, Rhizome, August 6, 2008

John Gianvito, Profit motive and the whispering wind, August 4, 2008

"Summer Mixtape Volume 1" at Exit Art, Rhizome, August 1, 2008

Fruit Mystery, Rhizome, July 29, 2008

"Out of This World" at Wood Street Galleries, Rhizome, July 25, 2008

"Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe" at the Whitney, Rhizome, July 23, 2008

Brody Condon, SonsbeekLive: The Twentyfivefold Manifestation, Rhizome, July 21, 2008

"Arctic Hysteria" at PS1, Rhizome, July 18, 2008

"Bobo's on 27th" at Foxy Production, Rhizome, July 16, 2008

Bruce Conner, Rhizome, July 11, 2008

"Recycle It: a look at found-footage cinema, from the silent era to Web 2.0," Moving Image Source, July 10, 2008

"The Future of Disruption" at The Kitchen, Rhizome, July 7, 2008

Ubermorgen.com, The Sound of eBay, Rhizome, June 30, 2008

Raquel Meyers, Rhizome, June 26, 2008

Why + Wherefore: "This One Goes Up to 11," Rhizome, June 23, 2008

Tabor Robak: Reality CPU, Rhizome, June 20, 2008

"The Great Transformation—Art and Tactical Magic," Rhizome, June 16, 2008

Rosa Barba, Vertiginous Mapping, Rhizome, June 13, 2008

"Living Light," Rhizome, June 9, 2008

"The Small Screen" [on microcinemas], Film in Focus, June 6, 2008

Charles Broskoski, Computer Skills, Rhizome, June 4, 2008

Eddo Stern, Moving Image Source, June 4, 2008

Mark Essen / Messhof, Rhizome, June 3, 2008

Berkeley Big Bang 08, Rhizome, May 30, 2008

"AMERIKA: Back to the Future" at Postmasters, Rhizome, May 29, 2008

"Härte und Kalkül," Falter, May 23-29, 2008

“For Reasons of State,” Rhizome, May 22, 2008

LoVid, Rhizome, May 19, 2008

“Tweaking Tweets,” Rhizome, May 16, 2008

Club Internet “First Selection,” Rhizome, May 12, 2008

James Nares, The Village Voice, May 13, 2008

The Naked Game, Rhizome, May 2, 2008

Bebe Barron, Rhizome, April 28, 2008

Jonas Mekas: 365 Films, Rhizome, April 23, 2008

Rod Humble, Rhizome, April 21, 2008

Goldsmith’s Thursday Club, Rhizome, April 16, 2008

“Going Postal,” Rhizome, April 14, 2008

Dan Proops, Rhizome, April 8, 2008

Tale of Tales: The Graveyard, Rhizome, April 7, 2008

“Holy Fire,” Rhizome, April 1, 2008

“The End of the New York Underground Film Festival,” The Village Voice, April 1, 2008

Netfilmmakers.dk, Rhizome, March 31, 2008

“Psymulation,” Rhizome, March 25, 2008

Joan Leandre, Rhizome, March 24, 2008

Lawrence Weiner, The Village Voice, January 15, 2008

Year in Experimental Cinema 2007, The Village Voice, January 2, 2008

2007

"Seven Instances of the Austrian Avant-Garde", Innovative Film Austria 07/08, 2007

Robert Boyd, Xanadu, catalog essay, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, January 24-March 4, 2007

Standish Lawder, The Village Voice, December 11, 2007

Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival 2007, The Village Voice, November 6, 2007

New York Film Festival's Views from the Avant Garde 2007 / Walking Picture Palace, The Village Voice, October 9, 2007

"No Fair: In Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames, Mia Consalvo shows there's more than one way to play the game:, Games for Windows, September 2007

Bill Douglas, The Village Voice, August 21, 2007

Elio Gelmini: Anger Me, The Village Voice, August 21, 2007

"Are You Being Served? Has turning on mainstream TV become part of tuning into our identity?", Out Magazine, August 2007

Peter Sellars & Simon Field: New Crowned Hope, The Village Voice, July 31, 2007

Pedro Costa, The Village Voice, July 31, 2007

Fritz Lang: Metropolis, The Village Voice, July 17, 2007

Nick Bicanic & Jason Bourque: Shadow Company, The Village Voice, July 3, 2007

"A Jones for Indiana: It's the Littlest-Blockbuster-That-Could. The notorious fan-made remake of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' rides into Anthology Film Archives.", The Village Voice, July 3, 2007

Vít Klusák & Filip Remunda, Czech Dream, The Village Voice, June 13, 2007

Various Artists: For Life Against the War . . . Again, The Village Voice, May 8, 2007

Esther Robinson: A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory, The Village Voice, April 24, 2007

Mary Jordan: Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, The Village Voice, April 10, 2007

"On the Collective for Living Cinema", The Village Voice, April 3, 2007

Werner Herzog: Cobra Verde, The Village Voice, March 20, 2007

"Valie Export: Innovator" & "Abbas Kiarostami: Image Maker", The Village Voice, February 27, 2007

Bela Tarr, The Village Voice, February 20, 2007

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2007, The Village Voice, February 6, 2007

"Screen Dream: The Audio-Visual Journeys of Glen Fogel", Millennium Film Journal, No. 45/46, Fall 2006 (Published January 2007)

Kazuo Hara, The Village Voice, January 30, 2007

"Feedback: The Video Data Bank, Video Art, and Artist Interviews", The Village Voice, January 23, 2007

Ken Jacobs: Two Wrenching Departures; Azazel Jacobs: The GoodTimesKid, The Village Voice, January 16, 2007

Best of Internet 2006, The Burncopy, January 13, 2007

"Film at 11: Maysles focuses on turning Harlem kids into auteurs", The Village Voice, January 9, 2007

"Keeping It Real: Military Mods for the True Wargamer", Games for Windows, January 2007

2006

From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Videogames, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006

Peter Whitehead: "The Perception of Life", Viennale 2006 catalog, October 13-25, 2006

Roberto Benigni: The Tiger and the Snow, The Village Voice, December 26, 2006

Tom Twyker: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, The Village Voice, December 26, 2006

indieWIRE Critics Poll Ballot, First indieWIRE Critics Poll, December 21, 2006

Guy Maddin: My Dad is 100 Years Old / Marie Nyreod: Bergman Island, The Village Voice, December 6, 2006

"Play to Pray: A History of Christian Videogames", Games for Windows, December 2006

Agnes Varda: Cleo from 5 to 7, The Village Voice, November 21, 2006

Robert Richter: The Last Atomic Bomb, The Village Voice, November 7, 2006

Robert Frank: Me and My Brother, The Village Voice, November 7, 2006

Werner Herzog: The Wild Blue Yonder, The Village Voice, October 24, 2006

Brandon Stosuy: Up is Up But So Is Down; Fred Turner: From Counterculture to Cyberculture, The Village Voice, October 6, 2006

"Islamogaming: Looking for Videogames in the Muslim World", Computer Gaming World, September 5, 2006

Lech Kowalski, The Village Voice, September 5, 2006

"Interactive Propaganda: On the Transformation of War into Playable Entertainment", The Believer, September 2006

Ric Burns: Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film, The Village Voice, August 29, 2006

Yilmaz Arslan: Fratricide, The Village Voice, August 22, 2006

"Fakes on a Plane: Conspiracy buffs craft their own online WTC movies", The Village Voice, August 7, 2006

Paul Yule: The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover, The Village Voice, July 25, 2006

Scanners: The 2006 New York Video Festival, The Village Voice, July 25, 2006

Thomas Allen Harris: Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela, The Village Voice, July 5, 2006

"Playing Dead: How Protest is Entering the (Video) Game of War", Arthur Magazine, Issue #23

Afro-Punk Weekend, The Village Voice, June 27, 2006

Kyle Henry: Room, The Village Voice, June 27, 2006

"Festival Excess: Après Tribeca, a deluge of film fests", The Village Voice, May 30, 2006

Tomorrowland: Cal Arts in Moving Pictures, The Village Voice, May 23, 2006

China's Cutting Edge: New Video Art From Shanghai and Beijing, The Village Voice, May 16, 2006

Tribeca Film Festival 2006, The Village Voice, April 18, 2006

Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint 9, The Village Voice, March 28, 2006

"A Tribute to Alexander Kluge", The Village Voice, March 14, 2006

Spring Arts Preview: "Vision Quest: Get your avant-garde fix with plenty of experimental cinema this season", The Village Voice, March 6, 2006

Michel Gondry: Dave Chappelle's Block Party, The Village Voice, February 28, 2006

William Kentridge: 9 Drawings for Projection, The Village Voice, February 14, 2006

Kevin Willmott: CSA: The Confederate States of America, The Village Voice, February 14, 2006

Peter Rosen: Who Gets to Call It Art?, The Village Voice, January 31, 2006

Johnny To: Breaking News, The Village Voice, January 24, 2006

2005

Interviews with Brian Frye and Bradley Eros of the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema and M.M. Serra of the

Film-maker's Coop, Captured: A Film & Video History of the Lower East Side, ed. Clayton Patterson, Seven Stories Press

"Live Cinema", Catalog essay for "Media Archaeology: A Live Cinema Festival," Aurora Picture Show, Houston TX, April 13-17, 2005

Take Seven: Top Ten 2005, The Village Voice, December 27, 2005

Take Seven: The Year in Experimental Film & Video, The Village Voice, December 27, 2005

Oscar Fischinger: "Optical Etudes", The Village Voice, December 27, 2005

Amos Vogel: Film As A Subversive Art, The Village Voice, December 5, 2005

Machinima Film Festival, The Village Voice, November 8, 2005

Amber Collective: Shooting Magpies, The Village Voice, November 8, 2005

Something Like Flying: Experimental Films by Deborah Stratman, The Village Voice, November 4, 2005

Joseph Lovett: Gay Sex in the 70s, The Village Voice, November 1, 2005

Jennifer Reeves: The Time We Killed, The Village Voice, October 18, 2005

Robert Beavers: My Hand Outstretched, The Village Voice, October 11, 2005

David Gatten: Secret History of the Dividing Line, The Village Voice, September 27, 2005

Jem Cohen: Chain, The Village Voice, September 13, 2005

Michael Almereyda: William Eggleston in the Real World, The Village Voice, August 30, 2005

Masaaki Yuasa: Mind Game, The Village Voice, August 30, 2005

"Short Attention Span Cinema: An Evening With Jeff Scher", The Village Voice, August 23, 2005

Steve James: Reel Paradise, The Village Voice, August 16, 2005

Howl! Film Festival 2005, The Village Voice, August 16, 2005

Jonas Mekas: Lost Lost Lost, The Village Voice, August 9, 2005

Rob Cohen: Stealth, The Village Voice, August 2, 2005

Michael Palm: Edgar G. Ulmer—The Man Off-Screen, The Village Voice, July 26, 2005

"Robert Frank: 20 Years with a Video Camera," Mary Ellen Carroll: Federal, The Village Voice, July 26, 2005

"Celebrities get involved as IFC protests continue", The Village Voice, July 26, 2005

Walter Salles: Dark Water, The Village Voice, July 12, 2005

David LaChapelle: Rize, The Village Voice, June 21, 2005

Contagious Media Showdown, Net Art News, June 15, 2005

Miranda July: Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Village Voice, June 14, 2005

"Kriegsspiele," Kunstforum international, June-August 2005

Catherine Hardwicke: Lords of Dogtown; Ron Howard: Cinderella Man; Peter Segal: The Longest Yard, The Village Voice, May 27, 2005

Brad Neely: Wizard People, Dear Readers, The Village Voice, May 24, 2005

"Star Spangled to Darth", The Village Voice, May 13, 2005

George Lucas: Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith, The Village Voice, May 11, 2005

Jeff Krulik: Nut Magnet, The Village Voice, May 10, 2005

The Bicycle Film Festival, The Village Voice, May 10, 2005

Hal Hartley: The Girl From Monday, The Village Voice, May 3, 2005

"After the Wall: German Films Since the Wende, 1989-2002", The Village Voice, May 3, 2005

"Crossroads: Avant-Garde Film in Pittsburgh in the 1970s", The Village Voice, April 12, 2005

Amitabh Bachchan: The Biggest Film Star In The World!; Masters Of Indian Cinema, The Village Voice, April 5, 2005

MIX18: 18th New York Queer Experimental Media Festival, The Village Voice, April 5, 2005

Tedious Limbs—Exhibit B, The Village Voice, March 29, 2005

Katsuhiro Otomo: Steamboy, The Village Voice, March 15, 2005

Ron Rice: The Flower Thief, The Village Voice, March 15, 2005

Otaku Cinema Slam!, The Village Voice, March 2, 2005

"Over There: Documentarians Bring the Real War Back Home", The Village Voice, March 2, 2005

"Good Citizen Solondz: With His New Film, The Happiness Director Squarely Straddles America's Political Divide", Paper Magazine, March 2005

"The Universal Language: An Interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky", Cinemad Magazine, #9, March 2005

"CGI Joe: How the military and private tech contractors are training a new generation of soldiers", The Village Voice, February 7, 2005

Year end poll 2004, Senses of Cinema, No. 34, Jan-Mar 2005

2004

Amos Vogel: "Das Leben als Subversive Kunst", Catalog: Viennale 2004, October 15-27, 2004

"Notes on the Recent History of a Self-Sustained Exhibition Scene for Experimental Forms of Cinema in North America", 23rd Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival catalog, January 30, 2004

Liner notes, Yoshitaro Nomura's Zero Focus, Home Vision DVD, 2004

Take Six: Best of 2004 Comments, The Village Voice, December 28, 2004

Take Six: Best of 2004 Lone Gunmen, The Village Voice, December 28, 2004

Take Six: Best of 2004 Critics Poll, The Village Voice, December 28, 2004

The Year in Avant-Garde, The Village Voice, December 28, 2004

Jessica Yu: In the Realms of the Unreal, The Village Voice, December 21, 2004

JPEX: Japanese Experimental Film and Video, 1955-Now, The Village Voice, December 7, 2004

"That '70s Now: Filmmakers Draw Lessons for Today from American Radical History", The Village Voice, November 30th, 2004

Ulrich Seidl: Jesus, You Know / John Deery: Conspiracy of Silence, The Village Voice, November 29th, 2004

Richard Rich: Muhammad: The Last Prophet, The Village Voice, November 16th, 2004

MOMA: "Premieres", The Village Voice, November 16th, 2004

Michael Armstrong: Mark of the Devil, The Village Voice, October 19, 2004

New York Film Festival's "Views from the Avant-Garde", The Village Voice, October 12, 2004

"Jean-Marie Straub / Danièle Huilliet: Selected Films", The Village Voice, October 12, 2004

Jonathan Caouette: Tarnation, The Village Voice, October 4, 2004

Brigitte Cornand: The Whisper of the Whistling Water, The Village Voice, September 28, 2004

Bruce La Bruce: The Raspberry Reich / Andrew Repasky McElhinney: Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye, The Village Voice, September 21, 2004

Avi Lews: The Take / Chris Smith, Dan Ollman, & Sarah Price: The Yes Men, The Village Voice, September 21, 2004

Bruce Weber: A Letter to True, The Village Voice, September 8-14, 2004

Marc de Beaufort: The Private Archives of Pablo Escobar, The Village Voice, September 8-14, 2004

"They Came from Toho: Godzilla and the Kaiju Eiga", The Village Voice, August 24, 2004

El Fisgón: How to Succeed at Globalization, The Village Voice, August 24, 2004

Edward Said: From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map / Francis Fukuyama: State-Building, The Village Voice, August 24, 2004

Joe Camp: Benji: Off the Leash!, The Village Voice, August 17, 2004

Howl! 2nd Annual Festival of East Village Arts, The Village Voice, August 17, 2004

"Media Cool: indie filmmakers look for drama and spectacle at the Republican National Convention", The Village Voice, August 17, 2004

Paul W. S. Anderson: Alien vs. Predator, The Village Voice, August 13, 2004

Stan Brakhage: The Mammals of Victoria & The God Of Day Had Come Down Upon Him, The Village Voice, August 11-17, 2004

"Hardcore Curriculum" Film Studies Takes on Porn, Exploitation, and other fringe fare, The Village Voice, Education Supplement, Fall 2004

Robert Greenwald: Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism, The Village Voice, August 3, 2004

Saul Levine, The Village Voice, July 20, 2004

Robert Kane Pappas: Orwell Rolls in his Grave, The Village Voice, July 19, 2004

New York Video Festival 2004, The Village Voice, July 13, 2004

Bart Everly: Let's Get Frank, The Village Voice, July 12, 2004

"Master of Hallucination: Ray Harryhausen Animates His Own Life", Cinema Scope, Summer 2004

The Big Ones: Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11 and the Birth of the Activist Blockbuster, The Village Voice, July 6, 2004

"Paradise (Lost): Los Angeles on Film" at AMMI & "California Dreaming" at the Whitney, The Village Voice, July 6, 2004

Tracy + The Plastics, Sound Collector Audio Review, No. 5, July 2004

Freewayblogger.com, Net Art News, June 16, 2004

David Caffrey: Grand Theft Parsons, The Village Voice, June 15, 2004

Todd Verow: Anonymous, The Village Voice, June 15, 2004

David L. Robb: Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies, The Village Voice, June 8, 2004

Yvonne Rainer, The Village Voice, June 7, 2004

Joshua Schachter: del.icio.us, Net Art News, May 31, 2004

R. Trojan: Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of a Sorceror, The Village Voice, May 28, 2004

Marco Filiberti: Adored: Diary of a Male Porn Star, The Village Voice, May 18, 2004

Mani Ratnam: Yuva, The Village Voice, May 24, 2004

Ray Harryhausen, The Village Voice, May 3, 2004

Tribeca Film Festival: Mania Akbari's Crystal and Bahman Ghobadi's War is Over!, The Village Voice, April 27, 2004

Alexander Galloway: Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization, The Village Voice, Education Supplement, Spring 2004, April 12, 2004

Kevin Bray : Walking Tall, The Village Voice, March 30, 2004

Whitney Biennial 2004, The Village Voice, March 17-23, 2004

Jon Moritsugu & Craig Baldwin, The Village Voice, March 10-16, 2004

Sarah Jacobson, 1971-2004, The Village Voice, February 25 - March 2, 2004

Louis Crompton: Homosexuality and Civilization, Graham Robb: Strangers, James McCourt: Queer Street, The Village Voice, Feb 3, 2004

C. Jay Cox: Latter Days, The Village Voice, January 28 - February 3, 2004

"Missionary Positioning: Indie Mormon Cinema Attempts a Mainstream Conversion", The Village Voice, January 16, 2004

RedvsBlue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles, The Village Voice, December 31, 2003 - January 6, 2004

2003

Take 5: Best of 2003 Critics Poll: Comments, The Village Voice, December 24-30, 2003

Take 5: Best of 2003 Critics Poll, The Village Voice, December 24-30, 2003

The Year in Experimental Film and Video, The Village Voice, December 24-30, 2003

The Films of Joseph Cornell, The Village Voice, December 17 - 23, 2003

Errol Morris: The Fog of War, The Village Voice, December 10-16, 2003

"Secrets and Thighs: A history of celebrity sex tapes, real and fake, from Joan Crawford to Paris Hilton", The Village Voice, December 3-9, 2003

"Bollywood Shuffle", The Village Voice, December 3-9, 2003

Sybil DelGaudio: Independent Spirits: John Hubley/Faith Hubley, The Village Voice, November 26 - December 2, 2003

Charles Atlas: The Legend of Leigh Bowery, The Village Voice, November 26 - December 2, 2003

On the Set of John Waters' A Dirty Shame, Paper Magazine, December 2003

Adofas Mekas: Hallelujah the Hills, The Village Voice, November 19-25, 2003

MIX 2004, The Village Voice, November 19-25, 2003

Inflated: the Blow-Up Doll Films of Steve Hall and Cathee Wilkins, Vice, Vol. 10, No. 9

"Breaking Rules: New Austrian Cinema", The Village Voice, November 12-18, 2003

"New Czech Films", The Village Voice, November 5-11, 2003

Philip Boston: Billabong Odyssey, The Village Voice, November 5-11, 2003

"A Short History of Polish Animation, Experimental and Avant-Garde Film", The Village Voice, October 22-28, 2003

The New York Film Festival's "Views From the Avant-Garde:" Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice, October 15-21, 2003

Cinematexas 2003, The Village Voice, October 8-14, 2003

Heddy Honigmann, The Village Voice, September 24-30, 2003

Emile Gaudreault: Mambo Italiano, The Village Voice, September 17-23, 2003

Bill Macdonald: Forbidden Photographs: the Life and Times of Charles Gatewood, The Village Voice, September 10-16, 2003

Scott Bukatman: Matters of Gravity, The Village Voice, September 3-9, 2003

Hollis Frampton: The Magellan Cycle, The Village Voice, September 3-9, 2003

LatinBeat 2003, The Village Voice, September 3-9, 2003

Paul Hough: The Backyard, The Village Voice, August 27-September 2, 2003

Helen Stickler: Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator / Warner Bros: Grind, The Village Voice, August 20-26, 2003

East Village Film Festival 2003, The Village Voice, August 20-26, 2003

Rakesh Roshan: Koi...Mil Gaya, The Village Voice, August 13-19, 2003

Bob Hope, 1903-2003, The Village Voice, August 6-12, 2003

Dana Brown: Step Into Liquid, The Village Voice, August 6-12, 2003

Bappi Lahiri: Disco Dancer, Sound Collector Audio Review, No. 3, August 2003

"Skaters Grow Up: From Street Punks to Cinematic Poetry" (Rick Charnoski & Coan Nichols: Northwest and Helen Stickler: Stoked), SOMA Magazine, August 2003 Volume 17 Issue 6

Pier Pasolini's Three Medieval Tales, The Village Voice, July 23-29, 2003

New York Video Festival 2003, The Village Voice, July 23-29, 2003

Travis Wilkerson: An Injury to One, The Village Voice, July 16-22, 2003

Karim Aïnouz: Madame Sata, The Village Voice, July 2-8, 2003

Helen Stickler: Stoked, SOMA Magazine, July 2003 Volume 17 Issue 5

"The Metaphysics of Taboo: Brakhage Faces Birth and Death", Criterion Focus: Stan Brakhage, July 2003

Michel Auder, The Village Voice, June 11-17, 2003

NewFest 2003, The Village Voice, June 4-10, 2003

The Zanzibar Films and the Dandies of 1968, The Village Voice, May 28-June 3, 2003

Andy Warhol's Screen Tests, The Village Voice, May 21-27, 2003

"Spiderman 2" at Anthology Film Archives, The Village Voice, May 21-27, 2003

Rob Nilsson: Attitude, The Village Voice, May 14-20, 2003

Anne-Marie Miéville, The Village Voice, May 7-13, 2003

Tribeca Film Festival 2003, The Village Voice, May 7-13, 2003

Adoor Gopalakrishnan, The Village Voice, April 30-May 6, 2003

William Klein: Muhammad Ali, The Greatest 1964-74 / A William Klein Retrospective / Wheeler Winston Dixon, The Village Voice, April 9-15, 2003

Adi Sideman: Chicken Hawk, Vice Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 2

The Good Old Naughty Days, The Village Voice, March 26-April 1, 2003

Shoot Shoot Shoot: The First Decade of the London Film-Makers' Co-operative & British Avant-Garde Film 1966-1976, The Village Voice, March 12-18, 2003

Gus Van Sant: Gerry, The Village Voice, February 12-18, 2003

Gregory Markopoulos / Robert Beavers - The Temenos, The Village Voice, February 12-18, 2003

Gus Van Sant: Early Films, The Village Voice, February 5-11, 2003

Three Films by Fred Kelemen, The Village Voice, January 8-14, 2003

Take 4: Best of 2002: Comments, The Village Voice, January 1-7, 2003

Take 4: Best of 2002 Critics Poll, The Village Voice, January 1-7, 2003

The Year in Avant-Garde Film and Video, The Village Voice, January 1-7, 2003

Thomas Riedelsheimer: Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy, Working with Time, The Village Voice, January 1-7, 2003

2002

"Role-Playing Games: An Interview with Seth Price", Sound Collector, No. 8

Kinetica 3 & 4, The Village Voice, December 18-24, 2002

On Snow's Wavelength: Zoom Out, The Village Voice, December 11-17, 2002

Alex de la Iglesia, The Village Voice, December 11-17, 2002

Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights, The Village Voice, December 4-10, 2002

"Sublebrity: documenting a new breed of fame." (Randy Barbato & Fenton Baily + Helen Stickler), Shout NY, December 2002 / January 2003

MIX 2002, The Village Voice, November 20-26, 2002

"War Games: new media finds its place in the New World Order", The Village Voice, November 13-19, 2002

Jackass: The Movie, The Village Voice, October 30 - November 5, 2002

Doris Wishman / Su Friedrich / Eija-Liisa Ahtila, The Village Voice, October 23-29, 2002

The New York Film Festival's "Views from the Avant-Garde", The Village Voice, October 9-15, 2002

Cinematexas 2002, The Village Voice, October 2-8, 2002

That's Anti-tainment! Programming the 48th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, The Independent Film & Video Monthly, October 2002

Shabana Azmi, The Village Voice, September 25-October 1, 2002

Oliver Hirschbiegel: Das Experiment / Conrad Rooks: Siddhartha, The Village Voice, September 18-24, 2002

Jacques Tourneur, The Village Voice, August 28-September 3, 2002

"Modern Musicals", The Village Voice, August 14-20, 2002

Harry Dodge, Silas Howard & Steak House: By Hook or By Crook, The Independent Film & Video Monthly, July/August 2002

NY Video Festival 2002, The Village Voice, July 17-23, 2002

Jack Goldstein, The Village Voice, July 3-9, 2002

Re:Voir, Filmmaker Magazine, Summer 2002

Wakefield Poole, The Village Voice, July 19-25, 2002

David Jacobson: Dahmer / Doris Kornish: Not Nude Though, The Village Voice, July 19-25, 2002

Woody Woodbury: Woody Woodbury Looks at Love and Life, Sound Collector Audio Review, No. 2, Summer 2002

Matthew Barney: Cremaster 3 / ESPN's Ultimate X, The Village Voice, May 15-21, 2002

Ashutosh Gowariker: Lagaan: Once Upon A Time in India, The Village Voice, May 8-14, 2002

"The Art of Gaming: Figuring Video Games into the work of experimental artists" (Seth Price, Bobby Abate, Peggy Awesh, Leah Gilliam), Shout NY, April/May 2002

Whitney Biennial 2002 Film & Video Program, The Village Voice, March 6-12, 2002

The First Decade: Video from the EAI Archives, The Village Voice, February 20-26, 2002

Escape to Life: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story, The Village Voice, January 9-15, 2002

2001

"Jumping Out a Window is a Way of Going Home: Incomplete Sketch of an Essay for Elisabeth Subrin", Cinematexas 2001 catalog, September 14-23, 2001

Take 3: Best of 2001 Critics Poll: Comments, The Village Voice, December 29, 2001

Take 3: Best of 2001 Critics Poll: Lone Gunmen, The Village Voice, December 29, 2001

Take 3: Best of 2001 Critics Poll, The Village Voice, December 29, 2001

The Year in Avant-Garde Film and Video, The Village Voice, December 29, 2001

Jonas Mekas: As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, The Village Voice, December 12-18, 2001

"Mini-Cinema: DIY Programmers in NYC Keep Cinematic Adventure Alive" (Rooftop Films, Ocularis, Fresh Film, the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema), Shout NY, December 2001

"Making Movies Matter: Ed Halter on Helen Stickler", Shout NY, December 2001

"Making Movies Matter: Ed Halter on Esther Bell", Shout NY, December 2001

MIX 2001, indieWIRE, November 30, 2001

NY Film Festival's "Views from the Avant-Garde," Matt McCormick & The Peripheral Produce Invitationals, NY Press, October 10, 2001

"Our Takes: Nick Zedd," IFCRant, September/October 2001

NY Video Festival 2001 (Peggy Ahwesh, Matt McCormick & Joe Gibbons), indieWIRE, July 16, 2001

NY Video Festival 2001 (Alfred Leslie & others), NY Press, July 11, 2001

Edo Bertoglio: Downtown 81, IFCRant, July/August 2001

Bo Hansson: Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings, Sound Collector, No. 6

Robert Beavers, NY Press, May 2, 2001

Stan Brakhage & Nathaniel Dorsky, indieWIRE, April 30, 2001

2000

"Experiments of the 90s: A Generation of Anthology Film Archives" (written with Andrew Lampert), Program catalog, Avant-Garde Alternatives: An Evolution of American Experimental Film, touring Moscow, St. Petersberg & Yekaterinburg, Russia, October 25 - November 12, 2000

Best of 2000 lists, NY Press, December 27, 2000

MIX NYC 2000, indieWIRE, December 4, 2000

James Fotopoulos, NY Press, November 15, 2000

NY Film Festival's "Views from the Avant-Garde", NY Press, October 4, 2000

Jay Rosenblatt, NY Press, August 9, 2000

Pete Sillen & Jem Cohen: Benjamin Smoke, indieWIRE, July 21, 2000

NY Video Festival, NY Press, July 19, 2000

X Questions For Xan Price, Insound, July 6, 2000

Docfest, NY Press, May 31, 2000

“New Super 8 New York,” indieWIRE, May 3, 2000

Michael Almareyda: Hamlet, IFCRant, May/June 2000

“Lost Fest Found: Adventures in Punk Rock Philly” (written with Michael Galinsky), Insound, April 14, 2000