Reflections on Disruptive Film

“Reflections on Disruptive Film” collects texts that articulate, meditate on, or respond to the short films of Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power, curated by Ernest Larsen and Sherry Millner. This is the first of three two-disc sets that aim to recover the history of short-form radical experimental non-fiction film and video. Edited by Michael Mandiberg, this dossier brings together Eng-Beng Lim, Julie Livingston, Neferti X. M. Tadiar, and Helga Tawil-Souri (members of the Social Text editorial collective) to consider these films and, in particular, they way they merge the radical potentials of content and form. While Larsen and Millner have been working on this curatorial project for eight years, and this edition of Periscope was conceived during the summer of 2016, its publication seems particularly pressing in the weeks and months since the election and inauguration of the current US President and the subsequent cycles of protest that greeted this moment.

Introduction

Michael Mandiberg

“Reflections on Disruptive Film” collects texts that articulate, meditate on, or respond to the short films included in Disruptive Film: Everyday Resistance to Power, curated by Ernest Larsen and Sherry Millner. This is the first of three two-disc sets that … Continue reading “Introduction”

…In Reverse

Neferti X. M. Tadiar

On the morning of the 23rd of November in 2009, in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao, fifty-eight people were gunned down by over a hundred armed men, their bodies and all their effects, including their vehicles, dumped and hastily … Continue reading “…In Reverse”