An intellectual biography of Annette Michelson with a focus on her interdisciplinary position between art (history and criticism) and film (studies), particularly in the transitional period of her “cinematic turn,” after her return to New York from Paris in 1965 and until 1976, when Michelson and Rosalind Krauss, her colleague at Artforum, established the October journal. The chapter contextualizes Michelson’s pathbreaking scholarship within new developments in art making and attendant discourses.