September 1971 Special Film Issue of Artforum, edited by Philip Leider. Contents include: "Foreword in Three Letters," by Peter Gidal, Annette Michelson, Jonas Mekas; "For a Metahistory of Film: Commonplace Notes and Hypothese," by Hollis Frampton; "'True Patriot Love': The Films of Joyce Wieland," by Regina Cornwell; "'Zorns Lemma'," by Wanda Bershen; "'Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son"; by Lois Mendelson and Bill Simon, "A Cinematic Atopia," by Robert Smithson; "Paul Sharits: Illusion and Object," by Regina Cornwell; "Passage," by Michael Snow; "Statements," by Richard Serra; "Paul Revere," by Joan Jonas and Richard Serra; "The Films of Man Ray and Moholy-Nagy," by Barbara Rose; "The Calisthenics of Vision: Open Instructions on the Films of George Landow," by Paul Arthur; "On Negative Space," by Max Kozloff; and "'The Chelsea Girls,'" by Stephen Koch. Cover: Ken Jacobs.