SELECTED PRESS ARTICLES
For a complete list of press see Artists' CV.
Polly II: Vertigo Magazine, January 2007
'Offshore Speculation'
William Fowler, BFI curator of Artists' Moving Image in conversation with Anja Kirschner
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Trail of the Spider: Mute, Vol 2 #11, March 2009
'Duck! You Regeneration Sucker'
David Panos & Anja Kirschner's film, Trail of the Spider, allegorises the public-private land-grab known as ‘urban regeneration' using the form of the Spaghetti Western. This is no shallow postmodern genre surfing, writes Neil Gray, but a passionate re-engagement with history for the sake of the present.
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The Last Days of Jack Sheppard: New Statesman, May 2009
'The Bubble Economy'
Brian Dillon on film about an 18th-century criminal has an eery resonance with the events of today.
The Last Days of Jack Sheppard: Mute, Vol 2 #13, Sept 2009
'Notes on The Last Days of Jack Sheppard: Capital Crimes and Paper Claims'
Extrapolating from his talk on Anja Kirschner and David Panos’ recent film about 18th century folk legend Jack Sheppard, Benedict Seymour traces the intimate relationship between death, representation, fiction and speculation. Then, as now, the attempt to escape from capitalism’s calculus threatens to collapse into another moment of capture.
The Last Days of Jack Sheppard: Frieze, September 2009
'The Last Days of Jack Sheppard'
Review by Kate Forde.
The Last Days of Jack Sheppard: Variant, October 2009
'The Last Days of Jack Sheppard'
Interview with Neil gray.
Jack's Back! In the Movies at Last! metamute.org, January 2010
Jack's Back! In the Movies at Last! by Peter Linebaugh. A response from Kirschner & Panos can be read here.
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