An interview with British avant-garde filmmaker John Akomfrah, focusing on his 1986 feature (made as part of Black Audio Film Collective) about riots in the U.K., Handsworth Songs , and his latest work, The Nine Muses , a blend of archive footage, mysterious landscape shots, and poetic voiceover.

An interview with Patrick Keiller, British director of essay films on the occasion of the release of Robinson in Ruins , the follow-up to London and Robinson in Space . Keiller discusses his engagement with history, politics, landscape, biophilia, and the mysterious character of Robinson.

A reconsideration of the fruitful 1965––75 period in Yugoslav director Duššan Makavejev's career, arguing that Man Is Not a Bird , Love Affair , or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator , Innocence Unprotected , WR: Mysteries of the Organism , and Sweet Movie raise questions about sexuality and politics which remain important.

This essay discusses three films which in different ways reflect on left-wing militancy in the late 1960s and 70s——Uli Edel's The Baader Meinhof Complex , Chris Marker's reissued A Grin Without a Cat , Barbet Schroeder's Terror's Advocate ——and argues that Marker's is the most insightful.