Introduction / Trinh T. Minh-ha. Strangely real: a reassemblage from the film Forgetting Vietnam / The essay film and its global contexts: conversations on forms and practices / Laura Rascaroli, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Bo Wang and Susana Barriga -- Essay films about film: the 'filmed correspondence' between José Luis Guerin and Jonas Mekas / Fernando Canet -- Mobilities and movements. -- Accented essay films: the politics and poetics of the essay film in the age of migration / Igor Krstić -- Cottonopolis: experimenting with the cinematographic, the ethnographic and the essayistic / Cathy Greenhalgh -- The world essay film and the politics of traceability / Giorgio Avezzù and Giuseppe Fidotta -- Laboratory of memories. -- Memory as a motor of images: the essayistic mode in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's variations of Uncle Boonmee / Christa Blümlinger -- 'Time turning into space': Innocence of memories' prismatic Istanbul / Tim O'Farrell -- Lovers in time: an essay film of contested memories / Thomas Elsaesser and Agnieszka Piotrowska -- Landscapes of trauma. -- No man's zone: the essay film in the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan / Marco Bohr -- 'Image-writing': the essayistic/sanwen in Chinese nonfiction cinema and Zhao Liang's Behemoth / Kiki Tianqi Yu -- Archival effects. -- Indigenous Australia and the archive effect: Frances Calvert's Talking broken as essay film / Peter Kilroy -- Between autobiography, personal archive and mourning: David Perlov's Diary 1973-1983 in Tel Aviv / Ilana Feldman -- Afterimages: a photo-essay. -- Strangely real: a reassemblage from the film Forgetting Vietnam / Trinh T. Minh-ha.
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