Pix, Issue 3, 2001

A section of this issue entitled "Zoom In" is almost fully Burroughs-relevant. 

Peter Wollen contributes "Guerrilla conditions: the cinema of William Seward Burroughs", pp. 85-94.  This covers Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Antony Balch and Ian Sommerville, their history between literature and film. 

John Howe contributes "Painting the lily: adapting Burroughs for stage and screen", pp. 96-101. 

Woody Haut contributes "Chrome, parasites and writing instruments: William Burroughs and J. G. Ballard as read by David Cronenberg, pp. 102-111. 

Nick James contributes "Being and Becoming", pp. 112-114, which briefly mentions Burroughs.

Published in London, England by Ilona Halberstadt in 2001.

Bibliographic Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)
• Raven 20010000PIXX.0.3

Selected Contents: 

• Vladimir Mayakovsky: 
• "Moviecraze" (poetry)
• poster illustration
• carte-de-visite
• book cover
• designs for Mystery Bouffe
• half-title page from Listen: Vladimir Mayakovsky, Early Poems (1913-1918)
• ROSTA window posters
• Varvara Stepanova: 
• "Charlie Chaplin" (poster)
• cover of Kinofot 2
• Osip Mandelstam: "Charlie Chapman / Stepped out of Cinema" (essay)
• Charlie Chaplin: 
• stills from The Tramp
• stills from City Lights
• Maria Enzensberger: "'Long Live the Poetry of the Moving and Movable Machine': Mayakovsky, the post-revolutionary avant-gardes and early Soviet cinema" (essay)
•  Dziga Vertov: still from Man with a Movie Camera
• Alexander Rodchenko: 
• photos of Mayakovsky
• cover of Lef
• photomontage for Rodchenko's poem "About This"
• Nikander Turkin: stills from Not Born to Be Rich
• Evgeny Slavinsky: stills from The Young Lady and the Hooligan
• Esfir Shub: stills from The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
• Sergei Eisenstein: 
• stills from Strike
• still from October
• stills from Bezhin Meadow
• Lili Brik: 
• "Fettered by Film" ("The contents of the picture as recollected by...")
• stills from Fettered by Film
• Ilona Halberstadt: 
• "Poetry Readings" (essay)
• "Vladimir Mayakovsky, Mystery Bouffe, 1918" (essay)
• Ian Christie: "The Ployphony of Soviet Cinema" (essay)
• Nikita Mikhalkov: still from Slave of Love
• Vladimir Gardin: still from The Bear's Wedding
• Vasily Pichul: still from Little Vera
• Vsevolod Pudovkin: still from The Mother
• Kozintsev and Trauberg: 
• still from The Youth of Maxim
• still from The New Babylon
• still from The Devil's Wheel
• Evgeny Bauer: still from The Dying Swan
• Abram Room: still from Bed and Sofa
• Alexander Askolodov: still from The Commisar
• Andrei Konchalovsky: still from Asya's Happiness
• Larissa Shepitko: still from The Beginning of an Unknown
• Gleb Panfilov: still from The Theme
• Yakov Protazanov: 
• still from Aelita
• still from His Call
• Grigori Alexandrov: still from Jolly Fellows
• Yuli Raizman: 
• still from A Lesson of Life
• still from Can This Be Love?
• Ian Christie: photographs
• Boris Barnet: still from The Girl with a Hat Box
• Alexander Granovsky: still from Jewish Luck
• Stenberg Brothers: poster for Boris Barnet's The House on Trubnaya
• Thomas Elsaesser: "Walter Reisch: Vienna–Berlin–London–Hollywood" (essay)
• Friedrich Holländer: stills from The Only Girl/Heart Song
• Walter Reisch: 
• stills from Episode
• stills from Men Are Not Gods
• stills from Song of Scheherazade
• stills from Der Cornet
• John Farrow: stills from The Hitler Gang
• Otto Preminger: 
• stills from Margin for Error
• still from The Fan
• Willi Forst: 
• still from Maskerade
• stills from Leise flehen meine Lieder
•  Geza von Bolvary: still from Die lustigen Weiber von Vien
• Robert Z. Leonard: stills form Escapade
• Carmine Gallone: stills from The Divine Spark
• Hanns Schwartz: stills from Prince of Arcadia
• King Vidor: still from Comrade X
• George Cukor: still from Gaslight
• Henry Hathaway: still from Niagara
• Gustav Ucicky: 
• still from Hokuspokus
• stills from Ich und die Kaiserin
• stills from Das Flotenkonzert von Sanssouci
• Karl Hartl: 
• stills from F. P. I antwortet nicht
• stills from Gold
• Reinhold Schünzel: stills from Eine Saison in Kairo
• Alexander Korda: stills from That Hamilton Woman
• Paul L. Stein: still from  The Song You Gave Me
• Mitchell Leisen: still from The Mating Season
• Viktor Tourjansky: still from Manolescu
• Henry Koster: still from Fraülein
• Frederick de Cordova: stills form The Countess of Monte Cristo
• Richard Fleischer: still from The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
• Carmine Gallone and Joe May: stills from Two Hearts in Waltz Time
• Henry Levin: still from Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Ernst Lubitsch: 
• still from That Uncertain Feeling
• stills from Ninotchka
• Julien Duvivier: still from The Great Waltz  
• Stanley Chapman: 
• "Brigitte Helm 1926 1930 1934: three poems" (poetry)
• drawings
• Marcel L'Herbier: still from L'Argent
• G. W. Pabst: still from Die Herrin von Atlantis
• David Thompson, Patrick Bauchau: "Interview with Patrick Bauchau" (interview)
• David Thompson: photographs
• Cas Oorthuys: photograph
• Eric Rohmer: stills from La Collectionneuse
• Robert Kramer: still from Guns
• Patricj Bauchau: still from The State of Things
• Juan José Bigas Luna: stills from Lola
• Gérard Corbiau: stills from The Music Teacher 
• Cana Gerede: stills from Robert's Movie
• Michael Polish: stills from Twin Falls Idaho
• D. W. Griffith: stills from True Heart Susie
• Sergio Citti: stills from I Magi randagi
• Peter Wollen: "Guerrilla Conditions: The cinema of William Seward Burroughs" (essay)
• Antony Balch: 
• stills from Towers Open Fire
• stills from The Cut-Ups
• stills from Secrets of Sex
• stills from Horror Hospital
• William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin: illustrations from The Third Mind
• Ian Sommerville: "William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin" (photographic diptych)
• Maurice Hatton: photograph of William S. Burroughs
• John Howe: "Painting the Lily: Adapting Burroughs for stage and screen" (essay)
• David Cronenberg: 
• stills from Naked Lunch
• stills from Crash
• still from eXistenZ
• John "Hoppy" Hopkins: photograph of William S. Burroughs
• Conrad Rooks: still from Chappaqua
• Nick James: 
• "Being and Becoming" (essay)
• drawings
• Woody Allen: still from Love and Death
• Lionel Rogosin: "Flaherty" (essay)
• Flaherty: 
• stills from Man of Aran
• stills from Nanook of the North
• Michael Parsons: 
• "Journeys to the North Pole" (essay)
• "Expedition to the North Pole" (musical score)
• Georges Méliès: 
• stills from A la Conquête du Pôle
• stills from L'Escamotage d'une dame chez Robert Houdin 
• Jam Troell: stills from Ingenjör Andrées Luftfärd
• Yervant Gainikian: stills from Dal Polo All'Equatore
• Don Ranvaud: "Remembering Luca Comerio, Pioneer" (essay)
• James Leahy: "Blood and Ice: Images of Nicholas Ray" (essay)
• Lionel Rogosin: 
• stills from On the Bowery
• stills from Come Back, Africa
• Michael Wolkers: "A Haunting Song" (essay)
• Ros Sarkin: "Come Back, Africa at the Durham International Film Festival" (essay)
• David Curtis: "Light Plays Primal Scenes" (essay)
• Stan Brakhage: 
• stills from Prelude – Dog Star Man
• stills from Thigh Line Lyre Triangular
• still from Mothlight
• Andrew Noren: still from The Lighted Field
• Franz Masereel: woodcut from Die Idee
• Alfred Hitchcock: 
• still from Suspicion
• still from Psycho
• Lev Kuleshov: stills from The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
• Fernand Léger: still from Ballet Méchanique
• Walther Ruttmann: still from Lichtspiel Opus 4
• Orwell Blakeston and Francis Brugière: "Light Movement Score" (score for film)
• László Moholy-Nagy: stills from Lichtspiel Schwartz-Weiss-Grau
• F & S Themerson: still from The Eye and the Ear
• Man Ray: stills from Le Retour à la raison
• Malcolm Le Grice: still from Horror Film I
• Anthony McCall: solid light "drawing" for Line Describing a Cone
• William Raban: still from Take Measure
• Lis Rhodes: 
• still from Notes from Light-Music
• stills from View
• Jean Epstein: illustration from Bonjour Cinéma
• Gill Eatherley: still from Hand Grenade
• Pat O'Neill: stills from Water and Power
• Sarah Pucill: still from You Be Mother
• Jordan Belson: stills from Music of the Spheres
• Chris Welsby: still from 7 Days
• Guy Sherwin: still from Messages
• Arthur & Corinne Cantrill: still from Projected Light 
• Bill Viola: still from The Passing
• Fox Talbot: photograph
• Paul Willemen: "How Do I Look: The photographs of Caroline Kerr" (essay)
• Caroline Kerr:
• still from the Langalee series
• stills from Replicas
• stills from Long Time Dead
• stills from Grey Matter
• Henrik Galeen: stills from Der Student von Prag
• David Lynch: stills from Lost Highway
• John Willett: 
• "Animating the Wheel of Life: The return of the zoetrope" (essay)
• photograph
• Rémi Verbracken: 
• cartoon from Hachis
• from Métis
• from Le Rêveur
• Len Lye: stills from Rainbow Dance
• Mani Kaul: "A Forgetful Blink" (poetry)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor/Designer: Ilona Halberstadt
• Associate Editor: Glen Kidston
• Associate Designer: Sheba Phombeah
• Art & Technology: Laurence McAree
• Time and Motion: Tom Cabot
• Additional Stills Research: Mark Duguid
• Assistant Editor: Sally Davin Easey
• Printing: BAS Printers, Hampshire UK