Reposted by Erika BalsomPhilip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Hot off the press! THE EDGES OF CINEMA: ESSAYS ON TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FILM CULTURE, by Erika Balsom. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! bit.ly/4wWIGzg @erikaaaa.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social 053
Reposted by Erika BalsommatteoB @matteob.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Feminist Observation: The Case of Un processo per stupro (A Trial for Rape, 1979) by Erika Balsom read.dukeupress.edu/camera-obscu...read.dukeupress.eduFeminist Observation: The Case of Un processo per stupro (A Trial for Rape, 1979)Abstract. This article offers an account of the landmark work Un processo per stupro (A Trial for Rape, Italy, 1979), an observational documentary of a trial for gang rape made collectively by Maria G... 011
Reposted by Erika BalsomLongtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Feed: "Current | The Criterion Collection" By: Erika Balsom on Thursday, February 5, 2026criterion.comGalatea’s Revenge: Actresses Talk BackIn a collection of behind-the-scenes documentaries now playing on the Criterion Channel, legendary female performers assert their agency over their screen personae and find freedom in the glamour and ... 001
Reposted by Erika BalsomPhilip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 11/02/2026“Brooks’s film weighs the promises of emancipation against the persistence of heterosexual norms and delivers a crushing verdict.” Erika Balsom on Looking for Mr. Goodbar in 4 Columns. Her book, EDGES OF CINEMA, comes out this Fall from @columbiaup.bsky.social. bit.ly/4s5SeVZ @erikaaaa.bsky.socialbit.lyLooking for Mr. Goodbar 053
Reposted by Erika BalsomCaitlin Quinlan @caitlinquinlan.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Very special to be part of the upcoming Laura Mulvey Symposium with many esteemed friends! Join us on Saturday 22nd Nov at the BFI for a day of talks — @erikaaaa.bsky.social, @cinemiasma.bsky.social and I will be rounding off the afternoon with a panel on curation and criticism💡 1166
Reposted by Erika BalsomNew Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 28/08/2025For Sidecar, Erika Balsom on Kamal Aljafari’s new film 'With Hasan in Gaza': 'Against all these crimes of extermination, every second of this documentary is an archive of presence, demanding recognition and remembrance.' newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...newleftreview.orgErika Balsom, No More — SidecarKamal Aljafari’s ‘With Hasan in Gaza’. 1116
Reposted by Erika BalsomJules O’Dwyer @julesod.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Almost ready to launch Hotels. If you’re around London on Wednesday evening, please come join: www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/hotels-... 031
Reposted by Erika Balsomthecowpalace.bsky.social @thecowpalace.bsky.social · 20/01/2025after uniqueness: a history of film and video art in circulation -- erika balsom (@erikaaaa.bsky.social) cup.columbia.edu/book/after-u... #books #films #cinema #video #filmstudies #mediastudies @dukepress.bsky.socialcup.columbia.eduAfter Uniqueness | Columbia University PressImages have never been as freely circulated as they are today. They have also never been so tightly controlled. As with the birth of photography, digital rep... | CUP 081
Reposted by Erika BalsomOVID TV @ovidtv.bsky.social · 07/01/2025“[Robert Kramer's work is] united by ... the encounter, cruel and beautiful, between subjectivity and history.” —Erika Balsom @newleftreview.bsky.social Several of Kramer's exemplary films discussed in this thoroughgoing essay are available to stream ONLY on OVID 🎞️ newleftreview.org/issues/ii150...newleftreview.orgErika Balsom, Filming the Ebb Tide, NLR 150, November–December 2024Dwarfed by Hollywood, America’s radical cinema remains under-evaluated. Erika Balsom surveys the restlessly internationalist work of Robert Kramer. Confrontations between subjectivity and history, fro... 051
Reposted by Erika BalsomColumbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 30/12/2024In this episode of Film Comment, Clinton Krute and Michael Blair invited Erika Balsom and Benjamin Crais, two noted critics who each proudly own original Milestones posters, to discuss Robert Kramer’s life and work. buff.ly/408Szf3 #ListenUPbuff.lyThe Film Comment Podcast: The Films of Robert KramerStarting places: critics Erika Balsom and Benjamin Crais join to discuss the undersung filmmaker’s richly heterogenous, and endlessly fascinating, body of work 053
Reposted by Erika BalsomDavid Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 12/12/2024The @screenslate.bsky.social top 20 of 2024 + “First Viewings & Discoveries” from Bertrand Bonello, Payal Kapadia, Radu Jude, Sean Baker, @manohladargis.bsky.social, @erikaaaa.bsky.social, @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social, @hamrahrama.bsky.social … www.screenslate.com/articles/scr...screenslate.comScreen Slate's Best Movies of 2024Screen Slate has once again invited Nicolas Rapold of The Last Thing I Saw to guest edit its fourth annual Best Movies of the Year poll, as voted on by our own contributors along with filmmakers, crit... 062
Reposted by Erika BalsomNew Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 11/12/2024NLR 150 is now online! Matthew Karp on Trump's return Rachel Kushner on Twombly André Singer on Lula 3.0 Roberto Schwarz on Adorno's Beckett Peter Osborne on contemporary art Erika Balsom on Robert Kramer Alexander Zevin on Hobsbawm Plus much more! newleftreview.org/issues/ii150newleftreview.orgNLR 150, November–December 2024NLR 150, November–December 2024. Includes articles by André Singer, NLR Editors, Mark Elvin, Rachel Kushner, Erika Balsom, Alexander Zevin, Joseph Bryant, Ernesto Teuma, Mark Elvin, Roberto Schwarz, ... 0337
