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Counterparts, no. 3, vol. 4October 7, 2019

Textures of Visibility: The City/Essay/Film Symposium

By Anna Viola Sborgi

Lisbon: tiny boat lights flicker in the darkness of the port at night, a boy skates back and forth in a courtyard in the bright daylight, sounds from the home blend with traffic noise from the street below, city life …

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3November 1, 2018

Beyond the Museum of Present Pasts

By Iván Villarmea Álvarez

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “The Essay Film and The City.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

The politics of memory underwent …

no. 4, RoundtablesOctober 31, 2018

(Im)Permeable History: Notebook on Cities and Clothes (pt. 2)

By Thomas Elsaesser

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “The Essay Film and The City.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

Taking up Igor Krstic’s invitation …

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 30, 2018

Bad essays don’t think: reflections on a (still) heretic form of the cinematic city

By Brenda Hollweg

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “The Essay Film and The City.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

In his opening remarks to …

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 29, 2018

Re/framing the City of Cinema

By Laura Rascaroli

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “The Essay Film and The City.” For more background on the discussion and to view other posts in the series, see here.]

In his introduction to the …