Another Gaze Journal

1 month ago | anothergaze.com | Murtada Elfadl

Nothing has been as persistent as the universal sense of grief we have experienced over the last few years. A grief that cannot be pushed away or remade into fuel for something else and whose collective nature ensures no escape. Two films by the promising visual artist Leena Habiballa transform this affect into a historical and political question, grounding it in a genealogy and ecology of social relations.

Oct 5, 2023 | anothergaze.com | Laura Staab

In the beginning, there is fog and there is thunder. The Gods are enraged. It is a struggle to see the mountains and their trees. After some time, darkness comes; a night that would render the two figures in the landscape almost imperceptible if it weren’t for their cries. As dawn arrives, a man in red emerges, clambering up a steep incline. So far, so arduous—and seemingly doomed.

Aug 1, 2023 | anothergaze.com | Rebecca Q. Liu

The idea that femininity is a performance that alienates the subject from herself has gained even greater ground in the age of reality television, the infinite scroll and the self as a brand, with all the blurring between the ‘artificial’ and the ‘real’ that such endeavours entail. At the same time, our world is in ever-greater thrall to the seductions of the image, and the rewards of a successful femme performance – if reports of influencer earnings are to be trusted – are astronomically high.

Jun 27, 2023 | anothergaze.com | Hannah Proctor

Before I began reading Ian Penman’s Fassbinder: A Thousand Mirrors, I wondered how I might have gone about writing about Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s many films myself. Fassbinder famously filmed fast and died young, leaving behind a huge oeuvre of over forty films and three TV series, as well as directing plays and acting in films directed by other people. When I thought back on Fassbinder’s films, most of which I’d watched over a decade ago, a series of scenes flashed through my mind.

Feb 26, 2023 | anothergaze.com | Helen Charman