Cinema

Eleven years after the publication of the first volume of Feminine Futures in 2011, this sequel explores the dance history of abstraction in the feminine, during the first half of the 20th century and continuations today, unfolding new research perspectives with a new body of rare or unpublished original photographs.

Through Sinnokrot's agriculture research platform Sakiya, and other ongoing projects that span moving image, sculpture, and socially-engaged practice, Palestine Is Not a Garden examines the potential to develop counter-strategies that effectively decolonial the social, political, economic, and narrative structures that goven relationships to nature in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Reflections on the conditions of contemporary exile, refugeehood, migration, and community building at the margins of society.

An ethnographic wander in the streets of Paris.

Globalized popular culture as a starting point for a new way of thinking about art and visual culture.

The script (with drawings) for Peter Greenaway's film tells of a 19th century Chinese love affair and its consequences, based apparently upon a real historical situation taking liberties with history to make an extravagant fantasy.

The first book devoted to the late African American writer and actress, Dorothy Dean (1932-1987), one of the few prominent African American women of New York City's bohemian heyday, close to Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe (new expanded edition).

The first monograph devoted to the entire multidisciplinary and unclassifiable body of work of French poet, writer, musician, and director F.J. Ossang, spanning more than half a century.

This publication presents the full orchestral score of Naked Blue, composed by Devonté Hynes, alongside stills from the eponymous short film by Mati Diop and Manon Lutanie.

A programmatic book for rethinking and implementing montage as a medium in contemporary art.

Jonathan Crary decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography.

D. N. Rodowick examines the complex relationships between contemporary art and cinema, around questions of movement, image, time, and history.

A series of portraits of Marilyn in the intimacy of an unmade bed, taken by the American photographer in 1961 (leporello).

Visual artist and filmmaker Jacques Perconte explores digital materials as one might traverse a landscape, allowing light to penetrate it. His images evoke less a reproduction than a sensation, offering us an impressionistic interpretation of the world. In residence at the Michel Ciry Museum in Varengeville-sur-Mer, he envisions a kind of uncertain garden between land and sea.

The first reader of essays devoted to the work of the renowned artist and media pioneer Lynn Hershman Leeson.

Salomé Lamas' selected works from 2017 to 2025.

This illustrated volume investigates the cinematic, documentary, and video output of women artists and filmmakers operating in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, situating their research at the intersection of artistic experimentation, politics, society, and technology.

e-flux Index first special thematic issue, concentrating on the relationship between art and theory today, brings together essays by some 100 international contributors considering the relationship of theory to artistic practice, architectural practice, contemporary politics, and arts education.

How the police infiltrated French cinema; a conversation with Rébecca Chaillon; independent publishing breaks the chains of the book industry; undermining imperialism from within, with Louisa Yousfi; Kazakhstan is de-Russifying itself, from language to culture; crypto-divination: artists delve into the inner workings of AI...

A first-of-its-kind documentation of collective cinematic journeys from the MENA region and beyond.

A book dedicated to the last drawings created between 2021 and 2022 by Gianfranco Baruchello, who passed away in January 2023.

A transcript of a lecture by Harun Farocki exploring the relationship between architecture and cinema.

A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.

A behind-the-scenes look at Luca Guadagnino’s film, captured in Yannis Drakoulidis's set photographs.

The choreographic in cinema.

The new “left-wing Catholics”; education under Trump and the American brain drain; theater, porn, and bullfighting with Lorraine de Sagazan; an X-ray journey with the nuclear nomads; soccer, Gen Z, and algorithmic governance in Morocco; Pedro Rhino, cinema at the end of the neocolonial mirage...

The 15th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), featuring: interviews with Shirin Yousefi & Lucas Erin, Charlie Engman, and Rebecca Zlotowski; portfolios: "THEY," Elizaveta Porodina, Ronan Bouroullec, Assises Vidy, and Freitag; Books feature: Nicole Udry, Friederike Daumiller, Pierre Charpin, Sonya Dyakova, Thierry de Peretti, Yoo-Mi Steffen.

A delightful dive, both documentary and imaginary, into a dreamlike and cult horror cinema in the southern United States.

The social, political, and anthropological implications of image production by machines, which permeate all spheres of existence and reconfigure the visible.

Index #8 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from March–May 2025. It includes contributions from 142 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.

An overview of the French artist's film remakes over a decade.

This book brings together three texts on Arnaud des Pallières' documentary Disneyland, mon vieux pays natal (Disneyland, My Old Homeland), extending the critical thinking engaged by this hybrid filmic object on spectacle and late capitalism.

The first ever published monograph on Gus Van Sant's paintings brings together a wide overview of his works.

A deep dive into the experimental film work of Gregory J. Markopoulos, a key figure in New American Cinema.

How the right wing is ruining culture, part II; in Sicily, humanitarian flotillas bound for Gaza are on the US Army's radar; Alice Diop and the Black Venus; Iraqi singer Sajda Obeid unites the country; theater according to Sylvain Creuzevault; the British left reveals fascism...

The first comprehensive monograph dedicated to the filmic works of the British-born Nigerian artist and film director Karimah Ashadu, winner of the Silver Lion for Promising Young Artist at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

The legacy and posterity of the Tashkent Festival for Asian, African and Latin American Cinema, which was held between 1968 and 1988 in Uzbekistan.

An album entirely dedicated to the sound composition created by Éric La Casa for Luke Fowler's film A Grammar for Listening, based on recordings (images and sounds) made in Paris and Glasgow. A new stereo version from 2023 interacts with the original mono soundtrack from 2009.

A compilation of all the covers created by Spanish illustrator Javi Aznarez for Wes Anderson's film The French Dispatch.

A visual and text based investigation led by Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili during many years following the traces left by the Mouvement des travailleurs arabes, a group fighting for the rights of the Arab workers in France at the turn of the 1970s.

An artist book providing an immersive entry point into Valentin Noujaïm's cinematic world.

A journey through the body of work of Portuguese filmmaker João César Monteiro (1939-2003), based on the programmatic notion of diagrams and the perspectives of two authors, Pascale Cassagnau and Hugues Decointet.

A poetic wander through the city of Kyoto, between observation and listening.

This volume expands the scope of the labour struggles represented in Erkko Kivikoski's 1973 film by discussing a seminal reportage by writer Marja-Leena Mikkola on women industrial workers, and placing both within the wider context of Finnish labour history.

In a collection of interviews given over a period of almost twenty years, a poet seeks to find out a little more about what he makes by confronting his practice with other arts (plastic, sound, scenic).

The other side of images in cinema, between phenomenology, art history, literature and ecology.

Index #7 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from December–February 2024–25. It includes contributions from 105 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic snapshots.

Artist photographer Giasco Bertoli walks through New York, looking for iconic locations of American cinema.