What is Outskirts?

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Outskirts is an English-language biannual magazine of around 160 pages per issue, made up of original essays, interviews, reviews, translations, and a single large dossier. The first issue launched at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2022.

Editorial

• The Ins and Outs of Outskirts by Christopher Small
  

Cinema of the Present

• It’s a Cliff Beasts’ World: Judd Apatow’s The Bubble by Lukas Foerster
  
• Shot/Reverse: Kazuo Hara Speaks about Minamata Mandala by Nathan Letoré
  
• A Butterfly Passes By...: Conversation with Rita Azevedo Gomes by Diego Cepeda and Christopher Small
• High Plains Drifter: Alain Guiradie As Director and Novelist by Nathan Letoré

Dossier: Boris Barnet

• The Number One Ethnologist in Soviet Society by Maksim Selezniov
  
• Remarks on Comic Cinema by Boris Barnet
  
• The Cine-Tailor: Conversation with Pierre Léon About Boris Barnet and His Films by Christopher Small
  
• Annotated Filmography (23 films) by Lukas Foerster, Dana Najlis, Patrick Holzapfel, Srikanth Srinivasan, Nikita Lavretski, Lucía Salas, Dan Sallitt, Raymond Shik, Manuel Asín, Lucas Granero, Evgeny Maisel, Ramiro Sonzini, Pascale Bodet, Daniel Witkin, Roger Koza, Diego Cepeda, Sofie Maas, Nathan Letoré, Boris Nelepo, and Marcelo Felix.
  

Journeys

• Report on Spirit of Fire by Lucía Salas
  
• Vincent Carelli’s Goodbye Captain and the Martyrdom Trilogy by Cíntia Gil
  

Fragments

• The Revenant Cinema by Sofie Cato Maas
  

Reviews

• Pacifiction by Flavia Dima
  
• Dry Ground Burning by Victor Guimarães
  

Filmmaker in Focus

• Nikita Lavretski by Maksim Selezniov

Coda

• A Lion in the Land of the Soviets: Yuliya Solntseva’s The Enchanted Desna by Miriam Martín