Arrows of Desire Selected Writings 1963-2002

The place from which we fire our arrows… – Kodwo Eshun

Part 1. Counter-cinema and Beyond
Introduction to Two Mayakovsky Scenarios
Jean-Luc Godard: Le Gai Savoir
Jean-Luc Godard: British Sounds
Jean-Luc Godard: Wind from the East
Jean-Luc Godard: Counter-cinema
Landscape, Meteorology and Chris Welsby
The Avant-Gardes: Europe and America
- Reply to Sitney
- Passion 1
- L’Eternel Retour
- Arrows of Desire
- Interview on ‘Arrows of Desire’, ICA Biennial of Film and Video
- Diagram on the History of Experimental Film
- Perhaps…
- Knight’s Moves

Part 2. Anti-Imperialisms
He That Shall Come
The Revolution in Zanzibar
Aden
The Crisis in Sterling
Iran Today – and Tomorrow?
Guilt by Association
Dossier of the Indonesian Drama
Was Christ a Collaborator?
Contradiction
Friendship’s Death diagrams
Two Weeks on Another Planet
Introduction to Wedding in Galilee
Iraq
John Wesley

Part 3. The Continent: Renarrating ‘American’ Art
Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti (with Laura Mulvey)
Eisenstein in Mexico
Introduction to J.G. Posada, Messenger of Mortality
The Continent – Letter to David Ross
The Continent – Sketch for an Exhibition
The Continent – Notes to a Sketch for an Exhibition
Masculinity: Siqueiros and Pollock
Global Conceptualism: North America – Exhibition Notes

A Trialogue on Arrows of Desire – Kodwo Eshun, Oliver Fuke and Nicolas Helm-Grovas