Launch of e-flux Index #7 with Jean-Pierre Gorin

Join us at e-flux on Thursday, November 6 at 7pm for the launch of e-flux Index #7, featuring a reading of “Proposal for a Tussle” by Jean-Pierre Gorin, followed by a screening of Gorin and Jean-Luc Godard's Letter to Jane (1972). The program will conclude with a conversation with Gorin, joining virtually, moderated by Yuka Murakami.

Gorin's text "Proposal for a Tussle," republished via e-flux Film Notes, is reproduced in e-flux Index #7, which will be available for purchase at a discounted price at the event.

Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin, Letter to Jane (1972, 52 minutes)
As a postscript to Jean-Luc Godard’s and Jean-Pierre Gorin’s Tout va bien (1972), Letter to Jane dissects a single press photograph of Jane Fonda taken in Hanoi and published in L’Express. Across a continuous voiceover in hard-boiled English, the filmmakers interrogate how the image positions Fonda as a Hollywood star and a political actor, asking what is being shown, who is being addressed, and whose gaze is being served. Emerging from the Dziga Vertov Group’s practice, the film is a rigorous, minimalist exercise in political reading that treats one photograph as a case study in representation and power.

Index #7 gathers together and recombines everything e-flux published between December 2024 and February 2025, floating upward to survey the terrain below. Featuring 97 contributors, the 584 pages of this “publication of a thousand things” combine long-form essays on art, architecture, and contemporary culture; exhibition and film reviews; interviews; theory; and dispatches from live political conjunctures into eleven thematic sections. From aerial perspectives to underground resistance, algorithmic futures to the wet concrete of revolutionary foment, Index #7 surveys the landscape of contemporary critical thought.

The printed edition of the Index is available to purchase online and from select art and design bookstores, as well as museums, throughout Canada, East Asia, Europe, North America, and the United Kingdom. The publication is distributed by Antenne Books(Europe and the UK), Les presses du réel (Europe), Asterism Books (USA), Art Metropole(Canada), The Book Society (East Asia), and Buchhandlung Walther König (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). Annual subscriptions, covering four issues, are available at both institutional and individual rates here.

The seventh issue of e-flux Index features contributions from: Maria José de Abreu, Yin Aiwen, Tom Allen, Carmen Amengual, Agnes Arnold-Forster, Hallie Ayres, Stephanie Bailey, Beauty Studio, Daniel Belasco, Crystal Bennes, Xenia Benivolski, Franco "Bifo" Berardi, Pietro Bianchi, Daniella Brito, Mikael Brunila, Gaby Cepeda, Leslie Chapman, Adeline Chia, Le Corbusier, Max Crosbie-Jones, Amica Dall, Tom Denman, Jacob Dreyer, Travis Diehl, Maria Dimitrova, Brian Dillon, Ben Eastham, Ren Ebel, Sergei Eisenstein, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Leopoldina Fortunati, Kenny Fries, Orit Gat, Alan Gilbert, Henry Giroux, Nilo Goldfarb, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Reinier de Graaf, Valeria Graziano, Max Grünberg, Alice Guy-Blaché, Thomas Allen Harris, Aslak Aamot Helm, Britta Hentschel, Jörg Heiser, Yuliia Holiuk, Ekalan Hou, Yuk Hui, Kateryna Iakovlenko, Isabel Jacobs, Kseniia Kalmus, Tamta Khalvashi, Bilal Khbeiz, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Sabu Kohso, Marci Kwon, Shigeko Kubota, Michael Kurtz, R.H. Lossin, Sven Lütticken, Kazimir Malevich, Ilan Manouach, Marcell Mars, Tomislav Medak, Mohamed Amer Meziane, Evan Moffitt, Stanislaus von Moos, Serubiri Moses, Charles Tonderai Mudede, Michał Murawski, Luka Nakhutsrishvili, Musoke Nalwoga, Sean O'Toole, Andrii Palash, Tania Pashynska, Alexei Penzin, Andreas Petrossiants, Sofia Pinedo-Padoch, Yvan Prkachin, Jason Read, Émilie Renard, Alex Retegan, Svetlana Romanova, Kristin Ross, Kateryna Rusetska, Juan José Santos, Danilo Scholz, Nikolay Smirnov, Claire Staebler, Alina Stamenova, Thotti, Pramodha Weerasekera, Mathilde Walker-Billaud, McKenzie Wark, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Ada Wordsworth, Jenny Wu, Lydia Xynogala, Soyoung Yoon, Mi You, Yuliya Yurchenko, Innas Tsuroiya, Dingxin Zhao, Yiren Zhao, and Slavoj Žižek.

Jean-Pierre Gorin (b. 1943) is a French filmmaker and professor best known for his work with Jean-Luc Godard during Godard's “radical” period. Gorin and Godard co-founded the Dziga Vertov Group and together produced an extraordinary series of overtly political films. Gorin left France in the mid-1970s to accept a teaching position at the University of California, San Diego and remained on the Visual Arts faculty thereafter. He continued to make films, most notably Poto and Cabengo (1978), Routine Pleasures (1986) and My Crasy Life (1991).

Yuka Murakami is a filmmaker and writer based in New York City. Her practice began in experimental sound, then in documentary film as a camera operator and editor. Her films have exhibited at the Smithsonian, Gene Siskel Film Center, San Diego Art Institute, the Emily Harvey Foundation, among others, and her writing has appeared in Reverse Shot, the Millenium Film Journal, Metrograph, and Screenslate. She received an MFA in Film Directing from Calarts in 2023 and the Emmy Award as a producer in 2020. She currently also works at Metrograph in the programming department.

For more information, please contact program@e-flux.com.

Accessibility
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the event space and this bathroom.