The Unbearable Lightness of Drawing, Tripoli Cancelled, Gosse Interview

 As we work to finalize Millennium Film Journal issue #69 I realize I have failed to mention what I’ve been up to in recent issues. For MFJ 67 I wrote a review of Naeem Mohaiemen‘s great film Tripoli Cancelled, which was on view at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City.

Senior Editor Grahame Weinbren and I interviewed Art Historian Johanna Gosse. Her essay called “Ways of Seeing After the Internet,” also published in MFJ 67, is on John Berger and Ways of Something, an artwork by Lorna Mills in which artists remake the visuals for one-minute segments of Berger’s classic television series Ways of Seeing. Grahame edited her interview into this video:

For MFJ 68 I wrote “The Unbearable Lightness of Drawing,” an inaugural Studio Visit feature profiling artist and animator Dustin Grella and Dusty Studio, located in the South Bronx. Rebecca Krasnik and I made a bunch of  photographs. The launch screening for the issue was in November at Anthology Film Archives.