Framing Jarman New Tate Visual Arts Channel in Beta

Film Studies For Free wanted to rush you the great news that the Tate has just launched a new, highly elegant and very user-friendly channel to enable the viewing (and embedding - yay!) of hundreds of videos about visual arts, like the great film above in which James Mackay, friend of British film artist Derek Jarman, talks about Jarmans experimental work on super 8. These films that he began making in the 1970s are rarely shown. Mackay, who later produced some of Jarman’s feature films including The Garden (1990) and Blue (1993), agreed to open up his archive of these ground-breaking short films for TateShots.

FSFF also came across an even more detailed interview with Mackay about his work with Jarman here at the 400blows website. You can also find interviews there with the following people about their work and friendships with this filmmaker: Jenny Runacre; Simon Fisher Turner; Tilda Swinton; Peter Tatchell; Christopher Hobbs; Tony Peake; Tariq Ali; Ron Peck; and Gaye Temple;

FSFF has only just begun to explore the riches and the capabilities of the new Tate channel; it gleefully urges you to do the same. But it closes, today, happily in a Derek Jarman frame of mind with a sublime Jarman artifact, from his 1987 short Aria, starring Tilda Swinton, music by Gustave Charpentier from his opera Louise with its aria Depuis le jour, sung here by Leontyne Price:

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New Film Philosophy Haneke Rivette Cassavetes Deleuze Badiou Leigh Bacon Jarman Bu�uel and more

Frame capture from Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, 2008). Read Basileios Kroustalliss take on this film as a thought-experiment

Film Studies For Free is delighted to relay the excellent news that another high-quality  issue of Film-Philosophy has just been published. Edited by David Sorfa, Graham Matthews, Matthew Holtmeier and Ben Tyrer, the issue boasts no fewer than thirteen great articles as well as dozens of book reviews. The former are listed in full and linked to below.

The next annual Film-Philosophy conference will take place in London in September 2012, and the full schedule has recently been published. You can find it here.

Film-Philosophy also has its very own Facebook page and Twitter account.


Film-Philosophy, Vol 16, No 1 (2012)

Articles

1. Interpreting Disturbed Minds: Donald Davidson and The White Ribbon PDF by James J Pearson
2. Haptic Aurality: Resonance, Listening and Michael Haneke PDF by Lisa Coulthard
3. To Describe a Labyrinth: Dialectics in Jacques Rivette’s Film Theory and Film Practice PDF by Douglas Morrey
4. The Subject Trapped in Gomorrah: Undecidability and Choice in Network Cinema PDF by Maria Poulaki
5. Film as Thought Experiment: A Happy-Go-Lucky Case? PDF by Basileios Kroustallis
6. Losing Face: Francis Bacons 25th Hour PDF by Arne De Boever
7. Charm and Strangeness: The Aesthetic and Epistemic Dimensions of Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein PDF by Kieran Anthony Cashell
8. Why He Really Doesn’t Get Her: Deleuze’s Whatever-Space and the Crisis of the Male Quest PDF by Niels Niessen
9. Groundhog Day and the Good Life PDF by Diana Abad
10. Remystifying Film: Aesthetics, Emotion and The Queen PDF by Stella Hockenhull
11. Contrapuntal Close-up: The Cinema of John Cassavetes and the Agitation of Sense PDF by Daniele Rugo
12. Of Bastard Man and Evil Woman, or, the Horror of Sex PDF by Lorenzo Chiesa
13. Perversity and Post-Marxian Thought in Buñuel’s Late Films PDF by Chad Trevitte

Book reviews

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