Point of Contact Eye on Cinema

Eye on Cinema is Point of Contact's critical journal exploring the intersections of film, visual art, and experimental media. This Winter/Spring 1997 issue represents a bold editorial experiment: rather than traditional film criticism, the editors invited five visual artists to engage directly with cinema through their own creative practices.

Featuring visual texts and collaborative projects by Pepper Colo, Gregory Crewdson, Sean Landers, Sandy Skoglund, and Judy Pfaff, this issue redefines what film criticism can be. The publication explores collaboration as an "innovative eclecticism"—examining how independent and experimental filmmakers work across multiple languages: image, music, acting, speech, effects, and environmental sounds.

Through word conversations rather than conventional interviews, the journal creates a dialogic space where questions are meant to be as resonant as answers, extending intellectual exchange beyond a given artistic practice into what the editors call "signs of a new eclecticism." The issue investigates filmmaking as a collaborative enterprise that challenges traditional notions of authorship, from Wayne Wang's work on The Joy Luck Club to Amy Tan's adaptation process, to Philip Glass's collaboration with Godfrey Reggio on Koyaanisqatsi.

This volume represents a vital contribution to film studies and visual arts criticism from a pivotal moment in experimental media history.

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