Annette Michelson Remembered

Churner, Rachel; Turvey, Malcolm; Bruno, Giuliana; Bukatman, Scott; Camporesi, Enrico; Dimendberg, Edward; Frodon, Jean-Michel; Gitai, Amos; Gornick, Vivian; Jacobs, Ken; Koch, Gertrud; Lant, Antonia; Liebman, Stuart; Mangolte, Babette; McCarthy, Anna; Pipolo, Tony; Polidori, Robert; Rainer, Yvonne; Taubes, Ethan; Weiss, Allen S.; Windhausen, Federico

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Annette Michelson Remembered

Rachel Churner,

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Malcolm Turvey,

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Giuliana Bruno,

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Scott Bukatman,

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Enrico Camporesi,

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Enrico Camporesi oversees the research activities of the Centre Pompidou film department. His Futurs de l'obsolescence (Mimésis, 2018) is about restoring artists' films.

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Edward Dimendberg,

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Jean-Michel Frodon,

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Amos Gitai,

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Vivian Gornick,

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Ken Jacobs,

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Ken Jacobs is the director of Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969) and Star Spangled to Death (2004), among other films.

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Gertrud Koch,

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Antonia Lant,

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Antonia Lant is Professor of Cinema Studies at NYU and the editor of Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writings on the First Fifty Years of Cinema (Verso, 2006).

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Stuart Liebman,

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Stuart Liebman is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at Queens College and the Ph.D. Programs in Art History and Theater at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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Babette Mangolte,

Babette Mangolte

Babette Mangolte is an experimental filmmaker and photographer whose most recent exhibitions include I = Eye at Kunsthalle Wien (2017–18) and Spaces to SEE at the Rochechouart Musée d'art contemporain (2019). A book of her collected writings was published this year by Sternberg Press. She is currently finishing a feature film, and her next project is a book about photography.

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Anna McCarthy,

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Anna McCarthy edits Social Text Online and displays her GIFs at dwGIFfith.org.

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Tony Pipolo,

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Tony Pipolo is a psychoanalyst and editor of The Psychoanalytic Review. He writes regularly on film and is the author of Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film (Oxford, 2010).

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Robert Polidori,

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Robert Polidori is an artist iconographer whose camera-generated works are preoccupied with themes of temporality and human habitat.

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Yvonne Rainer,

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Yvonne Rainer is a choreographer, filmmaker, and writer.

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Ethan Taubes,

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Ethan Taubes is a writer and human-rights attorney specializing in asylum and refugee issues.

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Allen S. Weiss,

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Allen S. Weiss (NYU) has produced work for film, theater, and radio and written and edited over forty books on performance, sound art, gastronomy, etc.

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Federico Windhausen

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Rachel Churner

Malcolm Turvey

Giuliana Bruno

Giuliana Bruno is Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard and author of Surface: Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality and Media (Chicago, 2014).

Scott Bukatman

Scott Bukatman is Professor of Film and Media Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.

Enrico Camporesi

Enrico Camporesi oversees the research activities of the Centre Pompidou film department. His Futurs de l'obsolescence (Mimésis, 2018) is about restoring artists' films.

Edward Dimendberg

Edward Dimendberg is Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine.

Jean-Michel Frodon

Jean-Michel Frodon, a former editor of Cahiers du Cinéma and the author of twenty books, now writes for Slate.fr and teaches at Sciences Po Paris and St. Andrews.

Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai has won the Rossellini and the Robert Bresson Prizes, among others, for his many films on the Middle East and Israeli society.

Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick is a critic, journalist, essayist, and memoirist.

Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs is the director of Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969) and Star Spangled to Death (2004), among other films.

Gertrud Koch

Gertrud Koch is a professor of film studies at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Antonia Lant

Antonia Lant is Professor of Cinema Studies at NYU and the editor of Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writings on the First Fifty Years of Cinema (Verso, 2006).

Stuart Liebman

Stuart Liebman is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at Queens College and the Ph.D. Programs in Art History and Theater at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Babette Mangolte

Babette Mangolte is an experimental filmmaker and photographer whose most recent exhibitions include I = Eye at Kunsthalle Wien (2017–18) and Spaces to SEE at the Rochechouart Musée d'art contemporain (2019). A book of her collected writings was published this year by Sternberg Press. She is currently finishing a feature film, and her next project is a book about photography.

Anna McCarthy

Anna McCarthy edits Social Text Online and displays her GIFs at dwGIFfith.org.

Tony Pipolo

Tony Pipolo is a psychoanalyst and editor of The Psychoanalytic Review. He writes regularly on film and is the author of Robert Bresson: A Passion for Film (Oxford, 2010).

Robert Polidori

Robert Polidori is an artist iconographer whose camera-generated works are preoccupied with themes of temporality and human habitat.

Yvonne Rainer

Yvonne Rainer is a choreographer, filmmaker, and writer.

Ethan Taubes

Ethan Taubes is a writer and human-rights attorney specializing in asylum and refugee issues.

Allen S. Weiss

Allen S. Weiss (NYU) has produced work for film, theater, and radio and written and edited over forty books on performance, sound art, gastronomy, etc.

Federico Windhausen

Federico Windhausen, a film historian and curator based in Buenos Aires, is editor of the forthcoming A Companion to Experimental Cinema (Wiley, 2020).

Online ISSN: 1536-013X

Print ISSN: 0162-2870

2019

October Magazine, Ltd. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology

October (2019) (169): 105–163.

https://doi.org/10.1162/octo_a_00362

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Nineteen scholars, writers, and friends remember Annette Michelson (1922–2018), cofounder of October. Written tributes by Giuliana Bruno, Scott Bukatman, Enrico Camporesi, Edward Dimendberg, Jean-Michel Frodon, Amos Gitai, Vivian Gornick, Gertrud Koch, Antonia Lant, Stuart Liebman, Anne McCarthy, Tony Pipolo, Robert Polidori, Yvonne Rainer, Ethan Taubes, Allen S. Weiss, and Federico Windhausen, and a series of photographs by Babette Mangolte.

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