Cinema Year Zero

Serena Scateni pulls out the imperialist practices afoot in Lang's 1919 Madame Butterfly adaptation, Harakiri.

An introduction to our third volume, In the Shadow of Lang.

Ben Flanagan makes the case for Orson Welles' long-lost masterpiece The Other Side of the Wind is a hybrid documentary on the death of a genius.

Satya Harihan draws a line across history from 1980s British police violence in Black Audio Film Collective's Handsworth Songs to our present moment of image saturation.

An introduction to our second volume.

Thomas Atkinson surveys the digital documentary future promised by Isiah Medina's Inventing the Future, and says: 'Is this it?'

Maximilien Luc Proctor finds valuable documentary insight in the experimental films of Nathaniel Dorsky, Teo Hernandez, and James Benning.

Two new festival hits - Me and the Cult Leader and The Viewing Booth - are investigated by Cat Mahmoud for what they can teach us about how we receive and regurgitate images.

Cathy Brennan documents her fragmented thoughts and frustrations working her way through the filmography of corrupt YouTube auteur Shane Dawson.

The public perception of a dead woman is challenged in Carol Morley's Dreams of a Life, as Orla Smith writes.