Cinema

Sekula's final work dedicated to labor solidarity in and around the docks.

An excursive analysis of the potential of narration within the paradoxes of cinematic representation.

An original music by Murcof which is the framework of Patrick Bernatchez's film “Lost in Time”, a sound project that is part of the explorations around Bach's “Goldberg Variations” initiated in Berlin in 2010.

A monograph / artists' book that engages with the recent film installations of Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz.

Monograph / artist's book based on seven films by the Canadian filmmaker, whose work creates a dialogue between film, photography and painting (with a script by Mark Lewis and an essay by Chantal Pontbriand).

An extensive overview of the oeuvre of one of the masters of experimental cinema, including a complete chronology of the cineast's work and life as well as newly commissioned contributions by Andrea Bellini, Ken Eisenstein, John Hanhardt, and a visual essay by the artist.

An unique artist's book based on Paul Sietsema's 16 mm eponymous film, with laser-cut portals and transparent screenlike pages.

Reference monograph of one of the most influential modernist filmmaker in British cinema, with twenty texts by Malcolm Le Grice and commissioned essays by Yann Beauvais and Philippe Langlois on his cinema and its relationship with art and music.

A “monologue” by the Cambodian photographer who offers an intimate reflection on the traumas of the recent history of his country.

A study of the novel “Cinéma” by Tanguy Viel, that also questions the relationship between literature and cinema.

Documentation of Inferno, a prophetic short film on the inauguration and the destruction of a replica of Solomon's Temple in São Paulo

A milestone film from American composer and filmmaker Phill Niblock, presented for the first time in DVD with two alternate soundtracks, T H I R is a mesmerizing and hypnotic film from his Environments series shot in upstate New York in 1972. This film is one of Niblock's finest and undiscovered jewels—a must have classic release.

Published in homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini, this edition (conceived by Alfredo Jaar) features the poem imagined in 1954 by the Italian filmmaker while visiting the grave of Italian Marxist revolutionnary Antonio Gramsci. In this poem, Pasolini meditates on life in front of Gramsci's tomb, evoking themes such as politics, poetry, sexuality, and Italy.

Filmmaker Rudolf di Stefano shares his views about cinema through a series of quotes by four representants of contemporaneity in film: Robert Bresson, Jean-Luc Godard, and Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet.

An intimate portrait gallery of Ari Marcopoulos' brother (artist's book).

The photography book Kracauer. Photographic Archive is a collection of previously unpublished photographic material from the estate of the sociologist, philosopher, journalist and film and photograph theorist Siegfried Kracauer.

Artist's book, based on the film A Sixth Part of the World by Dziga Vertov (1926).

Interviews.

The first publication devoted to the artist's films.

Siegfried Kracauer was a leading intellectual figure of the Weimar Republic and one of the foremost representatives of critical theory. This volume brings together for the first time all of Kracauer's essays on photography that he wrote between 1927 and 1933. It includes a foreword by Philippe Despoix, and a curriculum vitae illustrated with photographs from the Kracauer estate.

A fictional portrait of Marilyn Monroe.

The role of history and commemoration in Germany today.

First monograph.

An innovative analysis of our relationship to the image.

A film by Pascal Goblot that explores an exceptional relationship between two influential figures of contemporary art.

A film, a portrait of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a French-born artist based in California who created text and sculptural works, often combining them as props and stage sets in theatrical performance pieces (interviews with John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Morgan Fisher, Paul McCarthy, Christophe Bourseiller, etc.).

A history of film in contemporary art (a witty critical history of artist's films and their inscription into the broader history of art, as well as their impact on their social contexts).

Artist's book.

A perspective on contemporary video and multimedia creation through the various works produced by students and invited artists-professors for the 16th edition of the “Panorama“ program at Le Fresnoy, curated by Matthieu Orléan.

Martial Raysse and cinema.

An audio-visual project about the impossibility of a film on the Deir Yassin massacre, exploring the complex ramifications of the place (2 volumes artist's book).

An experimental novel that combines a critical study, political pamphlet, and lyric ode, with the ambition to build an uninterrupted stream of thought on all the dimensions of the work and life of Buñuel

The fourth title in the “Archives” series, which is dedicated to landmark exhibitions and curatorial practices, and provides sources and moving images to the growing field of research of curatorial studies and exhibition history.

A tribute to film director Derek Jarman (reissue of the second full-length album by Robin Rimbaud / Scanner on Sub Rosa).

A collective project initiated by Valérie Jouve.

What happened to the boy Tadzio on the Venetian Lido beach in Thomas Mann's and Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice? British director Peter Greenaway relates Tadzio's future.

Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka's love for Alma Mahler was so great that he had a life-sized model of her made. The OK Doll, by Peter Greenaway, is the script for an unrealized film about the doll that Kokoschka lived with for three years.

Fully illustrated catalogue of the 14th Geneva Biennial, re-launched by Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève. The 2014 edition presents 22 films and video works, specially commissioned by the Centre (from September 18 to November 23, 2014).

A historical and theoretical reflection, on the border between aesthetics and politics, on the decisive role of the images and the power and limits of representation, in the context of the last genocide of the twentieth century.

Jean-Luc Godard and art (a return on Godard's controversial project at the Centre Pompidou in 2006).

What cinema is.

A statement about speculation, photography, time and withdrawal.

This script by Peter Greenaway follows Russian director Eisenstein to Guanajuato, Mexico, where he worked for ten days on Que Viva Mexico. Ten days that shook Eisenstein face to face with sex and death which changed the man and the filmmaker.

Backwards time in cinema: a study.

Comprehensive new monograph on the influential British avant garde artist-filmmaker—renown for his playful and formally ingenious subversion of the everyday world—, with essays by Ian Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer, and Ethan de Seife.

Part essay, part autobiography, the first book by Japanese filmmaker Daïchi Saïto offers a reflection on the artist's life, career and practice. With a foreword by André Habib, professor of film studies at the University of Montreal and a specialist in experimental cinema.

Through the medium of distinct films, Astrid Schmetterling and Lynn Turner investigate contemporary questions regarding the ethics of recollection and memorialization within visual culture.