Articles of ‘Julian Rosefeldt’

A Western Hanging in the Museum

Reflections on Julian Rosefeldt’s American Night

By F. Javier Panera Cuevas

“The only technologies worth having are a six gun and a movie camera.”
Sam Peckinpah
Over the past decade we have witnessed the progressive incorporation of cinema into museum halls.1 Although this phenomenon is not entirely new, the reason it has become commonplace can be found [...]



The Cinema Effect

By David Schmidt
The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has included the unprecedented exhibition: “The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image” in this year’s schedule. It is a reflection on how the invention of cinema and its accompanying introduction of the moving image have radically changed the human being’s perception of his surroundings.