Creative unemployed and full-time wage slave, Giovanni Vimercati is also (ir)responsible for the failed attempt at multitudinal criticism (un)known as Celluloid Liberation Front. His writing, which is visible to the naked eye from outer space, has appeared in the Guardian, Variety, Cinema Scope, Sight & Sound, New Statesman, Huffington Post, Indiewire, The Independent, Mubi Notebook, La Furia Umana, Reverse Shot, MUTE, Film Comment, and other planets. He has an MA in Media Studies from the American University of Beirut, and he is currently a PhD student in the Film & Media Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Against Ethnic Absolutism: The Hybrid Cinema of Med Hondo
Giovanni Vimercati reviews an unprecedented three-volume set on African filmmaker Med Hondo....
Love in the USSR: On Sonallah Ibrahim’s “Ice”
Giovanni Vimercati reviews “Ice,” the recently released novel by Sonallah Ibrahim in a translation by Margaret Litvin....
The Persisting Relevance of Walter Rodney’s “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”
Walter Rodney’s "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" still reads cogently after almost 50 years....
Alessandro Spina’s Anti-Colonial Hospitality, Then and Now
The first volume of Alessandro Spina’s magnum opus speaks uncomfortably to our current moment....
Soviet Pseudoscience: The History of Mind Control
The long, strange history of Soviet mind control experiments....
