[Commlist] NECSUS Spring 2026 - New issue published

The Spring 2026 issue of NECSUS is now available online.

This issue includes seven feature articles, an audiovisual essay section 
on the mediation of Palestine, an interview, one data paper, and our 
review sections (festivals, books, and exhibitions). Please see table of 
contents below this message.

NECSUS is an Open Access publication. This issue, and all previous ones, 
can be accessed freely at https://necsus-ejms.org/

On behalf of the editorial board and team, we hope you enjoy reading and 
watching.

Feature articles
- Archiveologies of the nation and the home: Reframing memory in 
Pirotecnia and Como el cielo después de llover by Vladimir Rosas-Salazar
- Through the looking glass: The biopolitics of digital becoming by 
Marine de Dardel
- On mediating environments: Sensor-milieus and operational aesthetics 
by Sebastian Scholz
- Disappearing to appear: Towards a politics of opacity in contemporary 
European audiovisual culture by Jaime Vargas
- Getting ‘up close…at a safe distance’: Transparency and opacity in the 
weaves of VR by Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang
- Empire of rain: Rancière, Béla Tarr, and the politics of the sensible 
by Corey P. Cribb
- Film festivals and wars: 2025 – The year of double standards by Dunja 
Jelenkovic

Interviews
- ‘I can eat film’: A conversation with Monica Freeman by Sophie 
Holzberger, edited by Fiona Berg

Audiovisual essays
- Palestine is: The charge of the video essay by Giuseppe Fidotta
- On the Images of Defeat, Loss, and Mourning by Essa Grayeb
- Not a Single Mention: Dead Images and Institutional Laundering by 
Muhammad Nour ElKhairy
- Rejecting the Ghost-Viewer: Witnessing Film Archives of Palestine 
Beyond Passivity by Theo Panagopoulos
- When solid turns to dust, or a note on liquidity from Palestine by 
Samira Makki
- Conversations on Palestine from Elsewhere by Flavia Mazzarino
- Haunting the Queer Archive: Toward a Politics of Visual Solidarity by R.R.

Festival reviews
- ‘Quality Japanese Cinema’ at Nippon Connection and Kinotayo Japanese 
Film Festivals by Lucie Rydzek
- Cinema under siege, cinema for life: International solidarity and 
festivalisation at the Gaza International Festival for Women’s Cinema by 
Ylenia Olibet
- Teddys, bears, and the claws of politics at Berlinale 2026 by Skadi Loist

Book reviews
- A panorama of Indigenous expressions by Ana Sofia Almeida
- Screening Adult Cinema by Mona-Ilinca Miroșanu
- The Works of Shonda Rhimes by Gülce Zeynep Bektaş

Exhibition reviews
- Making the archive audible: tipsfrisch at bildwechsel by Dagmar Brunow
- Still processing an image at Nxt Museum by Ekaterina Maslova

Data papers
- Women in focus: Female film professionals in the Czech cinema industry 
1993-2023 by Tereza Czesany Dvořáková, Jakub Šiler, Karel Větrovský
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