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Erika Balsom

Erika Balsom is a reader in film studies at King’s College London, UK, and the author of TEN SKIES (Fireflies Press, 2021).

On a recent visit to Nevada, Erika Balsom discovered how the artist’s monumental sculpture is a meditation on transience

BY Erika Balsom |

On the occasion of her show at the Guggenheim Museum, the artist discusses how shifts in scale and juxtaposition reflect an experience of time

BY Erika Balsom AND Sarah Sze |

In a new collection, the author of ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ updates her approach to feminism and psychoanalysis 

BY Erika Balsom |

Against a growing digital landscape, cinema magazines dedicated to print are on the rise

BY Erika Balsom |

Short films at the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam give primacy to music and voice

BY Erika Balsom |

‘This is, perhaps, the best ending of any film, ever’

BY Erika Balsom |

The radical filmmaker, teacher and writer talks essentialism in identity politics and why her films are neither documentary nor fiction

BY Erika Balsom |

This year’s exhibition recruits the powers of documentary to reflect on what draws us together and holds us apart

BY Erika Balsom |

A genre more associated with painting, an interest in the environment grounds a number of recent artists’ films 

BY Erika Balsom |

The New York-based filmmaker has been questioning the politics of image-making for more than three decades

BY Erika Balsom |