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Elena Vogman - La danse des valeurs - Sergueï Eisenstein et le Capital de Marx
2024
French edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
forthcoming
Researcher Elena Vogman examines the unpublished archival material relating to the film adaptation of Karl Marx's Capital by Sergei Eisenstein. The analysis of these materials reveals the clear and ambitious idea that animated the Soviet filmmaker for this aborted project: to build a visual theorization of value.
Feminine Futures 2 - Expression / Abstraction – The Membrane of Dreams – Avant-garde Expressive & Abstract Dance Through Photography & Experimental Film
2024
Texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
forthcoming
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first half of the 20th century and continuations today, unfolding new research perspectives with a new body of rare or unpublished original photographs.
Derek Jarman -
2023
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
Writings on the pioneering, beloved experimental filmmaker and artist from critics, garden historians and Jarman collaborators Tilda Swinton and Simon Fisher Turner.
Nida Sinnokrot - Palestine Is Not a Garden
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
forthcoming
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.
Ester M. Bergsmark - Voice under
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
forthcoming
The very first book of Swedish film director, artist, and artistic researcher Ester M. Bergsmark.
Manoel de Oliveira - Catalogue raisonné
2023
English edition
Serralves
forthcoming
The a catalogue raisonné dedicated to Oliveira's extensive filmography: the most thorough and comprehensive book published on the filmmaker until now
Dorothy Dean - Who Are You Dorothy Dean?
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Éditions 1989
forthcoming
The first book devoted to the writer, critic and actress Dorothy Dean (1932-1987), one of the only African American women figures of New York City's bohemian heyday, close to Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Sites du film - Le cinéma et ses parages
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Perceptions
forthcoming
Ari Marcopoulos - Never Done
2023
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
forthcoming
A massive anthology of photographs made by Ari Marcopoulos between 2009 and 2018, featuring an introduction text by the artist as well as an essay by art critic, curator, and New York figure Bob Nickas..
Film X Autochthonous Struggles Today
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
forthcoming
First global exploration of contemporary forms of filmmaking from political and cultural self-determination movements of Autochthonous communities and peoples.
Marc Hurtado - De cœur à cœur
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
forthcoming
A large survey of Marc Hurtado's cinematographic, musical, poetic and plastic work, with texts by some thirty authors, artists, critics, poets and musicians from all over the world (Lydia Lunch, Pascal Comelade, Nicolas Ballet, F.J. Ossang, Kris Needs, Nick Soulsby, Nicole Brenez, Vincent Deville, Romain Perrot, Alexandre Breton, Marie Möör...).
Christine Bergé - L\'image en cours - Tarkovski Ristelhueber
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
A parallel dive into the images of filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky and photographer Sophie Ristelhueber.
Mouvement
2023
French edition
Mouvement
Eileen Myles, motherhood and an artistic career, Kelly Reichardt, Pierre Creton, Julien Gosselin's sermon on the fall of Vienna, squatting on algorithmic video surveillance in Rotterdam...
E-flux journal - Navigation Beyond Vision
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
currently out of stock
Navigation and montage in Harun Farocki's work.
Agnès Varda - Light and Shadow / Luz e Sombra
2023
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Serralves
An overview of Agnès Varda's work, from her films to her visual works: collages, video art, installations and photographs (especially those made in Portugal in the 1950s).
Jairus Banaji - Wanting Something Completely Different - 111 Vignettes of Left-Wing Figures, Themes, Films, and Writers
2023
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
A collection (montage) of biographies and themes written by Jairus Banaji.
Peter Greenaway - Four Storms & Two Babies - A Love Story
2023
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
A story of love, lust and parenthood, born beneath a series of thunderstorms (the script by the acclaimed Welsh film director and screenwriter Peter Greenaway).
Carmelo Bene - L\'esthétique du déplaisir
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
Two interviews in which Carmelo Bene exposes his working method and his ideas on television, and opens a reflection on the links between artistic avant-gardism and mass diffusion.
Mouvement
2023
French edition
Mouvement
ASMR's low masses, the Russian punk scene's exile in Belgrade, Harry Gruyaert, insurrection and literature in Turin's prisons, Susanne Kennedy, Nicolás Pereda, a sociological analysis of police violence by Paul Rocher...
Pablo Pijnappel - Cinemas (vinyl LP)
2023
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The recording of a literary interpretation of a performance by the artist Pablo Pijnappel.
Offline
2023
French edition (texts in English)
Offline
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
The 11th issue of the biannual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with Atlas Studio, Eurostandard, Nathalie Herschdorfer, Elisa Medde, Jonathan Olivares, Samuel Spreyz, Manon Wertenbroek.
Yvonne Rainer - Remembering a Dance - Part of Some Sextets 1965/2019
2023
English edition
Lenz Press
A re-examination of Yvonne Rainer's Parts of Some Sextets, a radical performance and pivotal piece in the American choreographer's career, which led her to theorize her conception of dance in the 1960s, before being revived in 2019.
Jan Jelinek - Seascape - Polyptych (vinyl LP)
2023
Faitiche
Jan Jelinek's soundtrack for Seascape – polyptych, an audio-visual software developed in collaboration with Canadian new media artist Clive Holden.
Les Carnets du BAL - Les temps de l\'image
2023
French edition
Les Carnets du BAL
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
The temporal dimension of the image.
Mouvement
2023
French edition
Mouvement
Zone to Defend in Germany, the opera in Odessa, investigation on the lost trilogy of Abdellatif Kechiche, the end of dancers' careers, the artists in the ready-to-wear, interviews with Mariana Enríquez, Tiphaine Raffier, Bertrand Bonello, Fatima Ouassak, Núria Güell...
Jonas Mekas - Images are real
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
currently out of stock
A retrospective devoted to Jonas Mekas's 70-year activity within and beyond the history of avant-garde cinema.
Trinh T. Minh-ha - Traveling in the Dark
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A fully-fledged artistic project expanded with writings, poems, and aphorisms by the artist alongside various interviews.
Rä di Martino - Carmelo Bene - Là dove muore, canta
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Carmelo Bene. Là dove muore, canta is the work of the artist Rä di Martino and she comes to terms with the memory of Carmelo Bene (1937–2002), through his archive materials.
Kerstin Schroedinger - DNCB - A History of Irritation
2023
English edition
Archive Books
Part visual essay, oral history and artist book, DNCB – A History of Irritation is a companion to the multi-channel installation DNCB by Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger, around the history of the chemical substance DNCB, used both in film and photo labs to process color, and as a treatment in alternative AIDS clinics.
Laurent Mannoni - Movements of Air - The Photographs from Étienne-Jules Marey’s Wind Tunnels
2023
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
The book "Movements of Air" reprints the breathtaking pictures of Étienne-Jules Marey, that he took between 1899 and 1901 during his scientific experiments with moving air and smoke, and complements them with two essays of Georges Didi-Huberman and Laurent Mannoni. 
Phill Niblock - Nurturing Exhibitions (book + 2 CD)
2023
English edition
Matière Mémoire
An exhibitions book including 2 CDs with new pieces by Phill Niblock performed By Stephen O'Malley, Deborah Walker, Kasper Toeplitz, Franck Vigroux, David Maranha and many others.
Tony Conrad - Tonic 19-01-2001 (vinyl LP)
2023
Black Truffle
currently out of stock
A major archival discovery: a stunning document of the only performance by the trio of Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt and Jim O'Rourke.
Roee Rosen - Kafka for Kids
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press
Publication based on Roee Rosen's film Kafka for Kids, a cross-generic film combining a fiction drama with a documentary and a musical. The law as a central motif in Kafka's writings, and the fact that the film, supposedly, addresses children, lead to an exposition of the complex and troubling ways in which childhood is legally defined in the Palestinian occupied territories.
Guillaume Robillard - Conquête de l\'espace et du temps - Le cinéma antillais
2023
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
currently out of stock
An analysis of Caribbean film production.
Pascal Goblot - Sapiens ou la naissance de l\'art (DVD)
2023
French edition (English subtitles)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
An investigation into the origins of artistic creation, more than 40,000 years ago (a film by Pascal Goblot, with Daniel Buren and a group of specialists in prehistoric art, philosophers, anthropologists and archaeologists, narrated by Virginie Ledoyen).
Matthias Brunner - Magnificent Obsessions Saved My Life
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A life, between art and cinema (the Swiss film curator’s visual autobiography, with guest appearances from Fassbinder, Warhol, Waters and many more).
Adolfas Mekas - Ligne(s) de vie
2022
French edition
various
A collection of letters (from 1957 to 1995) that the famous brothers Jonas Mekas and Adolfas Mekas sent from America to Semeniškiai village, their homeland, all addressed to the most important addressee of their lives—their mother, Elzbieta Mekienė.
Bollywood Superstars - A Short Story of Indian Cinema
2022
English edition
Kaph Books
An exploration of the history of Indian cinema from its origins in the late 19th century to the present day: Bollywood Superstars presents the artistic and civilizational richness of the Indian subcontinent (beyond the international success of Bollywood), through its long tradition of image making, and the diversity of the Indian film industry, now the largest in the world.
Bollywood Superstars - Histoire d\'un cinéma indien
2022
French edition
Kaph Books
An exploration of the history of Indian cinema from its origins in the late 19th century to the present day (also available in English).
De quelques événements sans signification à reconstituer (book + DVD)
2022
French edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
A large research into the first, long forgotten film by Moroccan filmmaker Mostafa Derkaoui About Some Meaningless Events (1974): a cinematographic history that sketches out a constellation of micro-histories on the cultural, artistic and political Morocco of the 1970s.
 Oiseaux-Tempête - What On Earth (Que Diable) (CD)
2022
Sub Rosa
With their sixth studio album, Oiseaux-Tempête unveils a new facet of its mythology through a dense work that carries darkness towards the light of day, that rumbles, calms down and warms up again. Like the silhouette of a lighthouse that reveals itself as its torch rises and shines, the powerful beauty of What On Earth (Que Diable) radiates into an expanding musical cosmos.
Éric Baudelaire - Make, Do, With - Films and exhbitions, 2011-2022
2022
English edition
Paraguay Press
currently out of stock
A new monograph devoted to Éric Baudelaire's work and collaborative method, tracing the connection between his films and his curatorial projects.
Éric Baudelaire - Faire Avec - Films et expositions, 2011-2022
2022
French edition
Paraguay Press
A new monograph devoted to Éric Baudelaire's work and collaborative method, tracing the connection between his films and his curatorial projects.
Matthias Uhlmann - Die Nudistenfilme des Schweizers Werner Kunz
2022
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
currently out of stock
The naturist films of the Swiss director Werner Kunz (1926-2018), pioneer of sexual liberation in cinema.
Raphaël Minnesota - Patrice Kirchhofer - Un cinéma pariétal
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
Raphaël Minnesota retraces the career and explores the whole oeuvre of Patrice Kirchhofer (1953-2019), one of the most mysterious and mythical filmmakers of French experimental cinema.
Ran Slavin - Shapeshifter
2022
bilingual edition (English / Hebrew)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first comprehensive publication documenting Israeli artist and experimental cinematographer Ran Slavin's work.
Cary Loren - Polaroids
2022
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This artist's book by the American artist, musician (Destroy All Monsters), writer and bookseller intertwines Polaroids of 1970s Detroit with photographs of painterly collages made of TV stills and print ephemera combining Christian iconography, Classical Hollywood cinema, pop and b-movie culture.
Mario Rizzi - Bayt / بيت
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
A complete overview of the vast cinematographic project of the Italian artist and director around the "Arab Spring".
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