Coming soon, the DVD, John Latham: Films 1960 – 1971 makes all of John Latham’s films from the 1960s and 1970s available for the first time, along with extras including new audio commentaries and film documentation of other Latham projects and performances from the period. Also included is a booklet with a specially commissioned essay on Latham’s films by curator Mark Webber and further information on Latham’s life, work and films.

The DVD will be launched at Whitechapel Gallery on 4th September. For more details see here.

Gidal's book is a richly textured, deeply felt consideration of not only Blow Job, but also Warhol's work as a whole, putting both the film and its maker into context within our contemporary culture, while acknowledging the artist's debt to the preeminent visual stylists of earlier generations and cultural eras. As such, it is a significant addition to the canon of work on Warhol's melancholy films, and a remarkable accomplishment of critical and theoretical synthesis. -- Winston Wheeler Dixon, Screening the Past, August 2009

Hollis Frampton's film (nostalgia), made in 1971, is a witty, hypnotic account of an artist's experiences as a photographer in New York City from 1959 to 1966. Long overlooked and understudied, (nostalgia) is a formal masterpiece. It emerges from a body of film that is rarely screened, with prints damaged and difficult to locate. Rachel Moore introduces a new generation to a critical moment in art history when (nostalgia) exposed the fragility and the essence of film itself.

In 1966 Michael Snow made the film Wavelength, a masterful exploration of the nature of perception. Throughout the film's forty-five minutes, the camera slowly zooms from one end of a New York City loft space to its far wall, accompanied by the sound of a rising sine wave.

In this critical study, Elizabeth Legge describes Wavelength as a film of expertly managed tensions, sensuous beauty, subtle light and colour and recession into perspectival depth. Wavelength was crucial to critics' efforts to establish a vocabulary for the experimental film movement emerging a the time, and has functioned ever since as a blue screen in front of which a range of ideological and intellectual dramas have been played.