Alison Butler is an Associate Professor of Film in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading, UK. She is the author of Women's Cinema: the Contested Screen (2002) and has published widely on artists’ film, moving image installation and women’s cinema. She is an editor of the scholarly journal Screen and a member of the research team on the collaborative Anglo-Brazilian 'IntermIdia' project.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. NOW and then.- 3. Imaginary museums and immaterial objects.- 4. Circulating.- 5. The visitor, the wanderer and the migrant.- 6. War zones.- 7. Epilogue.

Alison Butler is an Associate Professor of Film in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading, UK. She is the author of Women's Cinema: the Contested Screen (2002) and has published widely on artists’ film, moving image installation and women’s cinema. She is an editor of the scholarly journal Screen and a member of the research team on the collaborative Anglo-Brazilian 'IntermIdia' project.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. NOW and then.- 3. Imaginary museums and immaterial objects.- 4. Circulating.- 5. The visitor, the wanderer and the migrant.- 6. War zones.- 7. Epilogue.

Alison Butler is an Associate Professor of Film in the Department of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading, UK. She is the author of Women's Cinema: the Contested Screen (2002) and has published widely on artists’ film, moving image installation and women’s cinema. She is an editor of the scholarly journal Screen and a member of the research team on the collaborative Anglo-Brazilian 'IntermIdia' project.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. NOW and then.- 3. Imaginary museums and immaterial objects.- 4. Circulating.- 5. The visitor, the wanderer and the migrant.- 6. War zones.- 7. Epilogue.