Night Moves. Twenty-four letters - Dominic Lash;David R J Stent

Kelly Reichardt is widely recognised as one of America's finest contemporary filmmakers. Even among her admirers, however, 2013's Night Moves is all too often considered an unsuccessful and ill-advised foray into genre territory. In this book, Dominic Lash and David R J Stent engage in a sustained attempt to put forward an alternative view. Via twenty-four letters, two friends and musical collaborators - one of whom works professionally in film studies, the other having a background in experimental writing and publishing as art practice - work through the film from beginning to end. By turns informal and rigorous, speculative and minutely observed, this book is both a love letter to an unfairly neglected film and an experiment in critical form.