Together with Gareth Evans, film curator at Whitechapel Gallery, London, the artist duo Ruth Anderwald + Leonhard Grond take a look at both visual and narrative perspectives

Three films look at television as a location of the production and distribution of the film essay. The belief in the progressive potential of cable television channels, which were established around 1970 in many places in the USA, was connected to specific expectations. This new transmission technology was said to bring about nothing...

In recent years a number of extensive reviews have attempted to canonize the genre of the essay film, and to specify its formal arguments. In our look at the moving image as essay, which is accorded the potential for critical competence via its referential linkage of visual with explicitly intellectual (primarily literary) image and...