# mudmap

> image and video magazine


## Posts

- [On Desktops, Streams, and Memory. Interview with filmmaker Kevin B. Lee](https://mudmapmagazine.com/on-desktops-streams-and-memory-interview-with-filmmaker-kevin-b-lee/): Kevin B. Lee on desktop documentary, thinking with Harun Farocki, why infinite storage produces mass forgetting, and cinema's ongoing case of near-death.
- [Surveillance. Algorithms. Hypervisibility: A review of Post-Football (2026)](https://mudmapmagazine.com/postfootball-the-most-watched-campfire-in-the-world/): Postfootball, the new book by Juan Pablo Meneses, uses the World Cup as a lens for surveillance, platforms, and the disappearance of the collective gaze.
- [Collective Scroll #1. Galerie Linger, Berlin, 27.06.26](https://mudmapmagazine.com/collective-scroll-1-tartaria/): A format that takes a medium designed for private consumption and displaces it into a shared space. On 27 May at Galerie Linger, we held the first session.
- [Geopolitical Alchemy: How Trump Turns Decline into Revival](https://mudmapmagazine.com/geopolitical-alchemy-how-trump-dresses-decline-as-revival/): Is Trump the cause of American decline, or its most successful narrator? A reading of power, television, Ukraine, and the strange art of making retreat look like victory.
- [The Utopia of the Family Computer](https://mudmapmagazine.com/the-utopia-of-the-family-computer/): There was a time when the internet had a place in the home; a corner, a schedule, a shared practice. That idea didn't vanish overnight. It came apart gradually, and left something behind.
- [When Feminism Entered World of Warcraft: Playing a girl by Angela Washko.](https://mudmapmagazine.com/playing-a-girl-2013-when-feminism-entered-world-of-warcraft/): A 2013 video essay that transforms a fantasy MMO into an unexpected space for observing gender dynamics in online culture.
- [Those Who Watch: Wrestling Videogames and the Design of Attention](https://mudmapmagazine.com/those-who-watch-wrestling-videogames-and-the-design-of-attention/): A video essay examining how wrestling videogames render spectators, shifting focus from the ring to the crowd, where repetition, distance, and simulation reshape individuality.
- [Why the Founder of Palantir Abandoned Fassbinder?](https://mudmapmagazine.com/why-the-founder-of-palantir-abandoned-fassbinder/): Starting from Fassbinder’s cinema and a minor academic omission, the text takes an unlikely detour to think about how power has shifted from scenes to prediction.
- [The Center of Attention: Trump, Rallies and Ritual](https://mudmapmagazine.com/the-center-of-attention-trump-rallies-and-ritual/): A desktop documentary observing rallies as spatial rituals, where repetition, staging, and screens maintain a center beyond speech or ideology.
- [Havana - Hong Kong Video Letters #2 Lucy Aukafolau (2022)](https://mudmapmagazine.com/havana-hong-kong-video-letters-2-lucy-aukafolau-2022/): A video letter from Hong Kong responding to Havana. Through movement, everyday details, and moments of transition, the exchange continues across distance and time.
- [Television After Everyone Left: Nothing by LJ Frezza](https://mudmapmagazine.com/television-after-everyone-left-nothing-by-lj-frezza/): Notes on Seinfeld’s empty shots. Familiar television spaces reconsidered through absence. Listening to what remains once laughter fades.
- [Havana - Hong Kong Video Letters #1 Eloy Infante (2022)](https://mudmapmagazine.com/havana-hong-kong-video-letters-1-eloy-infante/): A four-part video letter exchange between Havana and Hong Kong. Two artists reflect on place, memory, and movement across cities.
- [Never Went to Quilpué by Luciano Contreras (2018)](https://mudmapmagazine.com/never-went-to-quilpue-by-luciano-contreras-2013/): A playful video letter connecting two mostly imagined cities. Made during our first video letter workshop in 2018, it turns guesswork and quiet humor into a gesture of connection.
- [A Cartographic Gem Found Online: Mapamundi by Javier Zoro](https://mudmapmagazine.com/a-cartographic-gem-found-online-mapamundi-by-javier-zoro/): A quietly brilliant documentary linking maps, labor, and lived space. Mapamundi (2013) reflects on how worlds are drawn and who gets left out.
- [Welcome to Mudmap](https://mudmapmagazine.com/welcome-to-mudmap/): A first map of the paths, formats, and questions that will shape the magazine. An approach to images based on montage, circulation, and attention.

## Pages

- [About](https://mudmapmagazine.com/about/): Mudmap is an image and video magazine based in Berlin, exploring visual culture through video essays, video letters, critical articles, and experimental media projects. Our work moves across media, from medieval illustrations to video games. It engages with politics and spectacles, intimacy, and human life in the cloud, asking how representation shapes perception, power, and collective imagination. In a context of visual overload and compulsive production, Mudmap slows things down. Mudmap operates as a small, independent editorial collective. Closely connected to contemporary art and cinema, the project is not limited to the art world and is driven by a specific […]
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