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The following articles have been drawn from a wide range of printed media, from newspaper letters pages to reviews of specific works in art magazines.

They have been included to help contextualise the work of the artists featured in Luxonline, and as a reminder that the debate engendered by British film and video art goes on in diverse and sometimes unexpected places.
The articles are arranged chronologically. You can choose another decade from the menu above.

1970s
features

A DESERTER IN FORTIES DRAG
George Melly reviews Stephen Dwoskin's Dyn Amo, Observer Review, 18th November 1972

ANNABEL NICOLSON: ARTIST AS FILM-MAKER
Annabel Nicolson on film as film, including the early films of William Raban, in an article from Art and Artists, 1972.

CINEMA RISING: DYNAMO
Ros Spain reviews Stephen Dwoskin's Dyn Amo for Cinema Rising, 1972

DYNAMO
Clive Hodgson reviews Stephen Dwoskin's Dyn Amo for Oz magazine, November 1972.

REAL TIME/SPACE
Malcolm Le Grice on 'Real TIME/SPACE' in Art and Artists magazine, December 1972

STRIPPERS AND CORPSES
John Brent reviews Stephen Dwoskin's Dyn Amo for the Freedom Press anarchist newspaper, 1972

A FESTIVAL OF INDEPENDENT AVANT GARDE FILM
An introduction to the festival, which took place 3-16th September 1973 at the National Film Theatre, London

DEATH AND DEVIL
Programme notes for a screening of Stephen Dwoskin's Death and Devil at The Other Cinema, 1972

COMPUTER FILM AS FILM ART
Malcolm Le grice on the aesthetic potential of computer technology. From Computer Animation, 1974.

PENTHESILEA, QUEEN OF THE AMAZONS - INTERVIEW
Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen interviewed for Screen, Autumn 1974

PSEUDS CORNER
A description of "A Film by William Raban" from the BFI is published in Private Eye magazine's Pseuds Corner, 1974

VISUAL PLEASURE AND NARRATIVE CINEMA
Laura Mulvey's seminal essay, first published in Screen, Autumn 1975

EXPANDED CINEMA 1ST-10TH APRIL
Programme notes for the Expanded Cinema season at the Arnolfini gallery in 1976, featuring William Raban

THEORY AND DEFINITION OF STRUCTURAL/ MATERIALIST FILM
Part one of Peter Gidal's introductory essay to the Structural Film Anthology, Published by the BFi in 1976.

THREE STRUCTURALISTS
Daryl Chin reviews three British film-makers whose concerns are with film as a "material construct", Soho Weekly News (US), 1976

WILLIAM RABAN: INDEPENDENT FILMMAKER
Programme Notes for a screening of William Raban's films at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh USA in November 1976

CENTRAL BAZAAR
Jonas Mekas reviews Stephen Dwoskin's Central Bazaar for Soho News, April 7th 1977

HACKNEY MARSHES IN THE PICTURE
The Hackney Gazette announces the TV showing of John Smith's Hackney Marshes, 1978

A SELECTION OF BRITISH ART
Ian Bourn on his work in a catalogue for the Hayward Gallery's Selection of British Art, 1979

AFTERWORD
An article by Stephen Heath, in response to Peter Gidal's 1976 essay The Anti-Narrative. First published in Screen Vol 20 no. 2, 1979

NO WAVELENGTH: THE PARA-PUNK UNDERGROUND
Village Voice film critic Jim Hoberman discusses the New York New Wave film scene, including lo-fi super 8 films of Vivienne Dick.

TIME RUNS OUT
The Scottish Daily Express reports from the Edinburgh Film Festival, where Stephen Dwoskin's film was due to be shown
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