Cinema

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.

The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrot's recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art of Watteau to the cinema of Occupied France.

Investigation into data centers in Marseille; the birth and death of international law in Nuremberg; behind the scenes of news reporting in Syria; inside the mind of a fascist woman with Hélène Frappat; interview with Joris Lacoste...

A record-cum-publication that unfolds through sound and text by transposing and transforming the soundtrack, dialogues, and images of Salomé Lamas' film Ouro e Cinza / Gold and Ashes (2025); featuring text by Frédéric Neyrat, Isabel Pettermann, Isabel Ramos, Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Salomé Lamas. The experience is intended to be intimate and meditative as it resonates between the spoken and unspoken, between sound and silence.

The screenplay for the Lebanese film written by Abboudy Mallah.

How will cinema's significance evolve?

A personal and artistic journey through the world of filmmaking, captured by veteran set decorator and photographer Lauri Gaffin.

The loving images by the eminent American set photographer.

A vast research project to explore the connections and mutual enrichment between cinema and design, both considered as reservoirs of fiction: an illustrated inventory of impossible and unthinkable objects, with some thirty contributions by design researchers and designers.

Issue 1 of Fidback, the film journal edited by the FIDMarseille festival, with a a look back at the 35th edition of the festival, a focus on films that made waves on the global cinema scene in 2024, a carte blanche to Clara Schulmann, and a portrait: of the artist and filmmaker Declan Clarke by Alice Leroy.

An in-depth look at nearly two decades of artistic output by the Palestinian artist and filmmaker Basma al-Sharif.

The first monograph, lavishly illustrated, with a preface by Martin Scorsese and numerous texts, devoted to the work of the astonishing American photographer who resurrects forgotten techniques to revisit the aesthetics of the early days of photography (and capture all its uncanny strangeness).

A striking new photobook by Eric Kroll, featuring rare and intimate photographs taken during the shooting of Paul Schrader's cult 1979 film—and much more beyond.

A striking new photobook by Eric Kroll, featuring rare and intimate photographs taken during the shooting of Paul Schrader's cult 1979 film—and much more beyond (hardcover edition without a dust jacket).

A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.

Index# 6 features all e-flux's commissioned pieces from October–November 2024. It includes contributions from 82 authors, artists, architects, filmmakers, poets, and educators, organized into eleven thematic digressions that index the arts.

How the Right is ruining culture; the return of magic in agriculture; art, war and video by Hito Steyerl; a counter-visit of Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport with its nocturnal inhabitants; coming out of the 20th century with Mélanie Plouviez; the solitude of scroll with writer Sheena Patel, after nature with economist Cédric Durand...

A collection (montage) of biographies and themes written by Jairus Banaji (new edition).

A2 size offset folded poster of Sylvain George's essay "What the Night Sees".

The soundtrack to the eponymous debut feature-length animation film by Swiss artist Yves Netzhammer, composed by Anthony Pateras and released as a stand-alone album, recorded with a slew of guest musicians: 29 pieces based on "weird folk melodies ornamented with electro-acoustics," imbued with a sense of mystical surrealism, otherworldly and haunting.

Le cinéma sans le film explores the trace of cinema in contemporary artworks that are not films.

A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.

An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.

A very personal essay that provides a clear introduction to Gilles Deleuze's thinking through his relationship with cinema, seen as a field of experimentation (existential, conceptual and aesthetic) to resist death, disaster and the stupefaction produced by the “modern fact”.

The great coming out of "homonationalism"; a ghostly stroll through Pristina's Grand Hotel in Kosovo; filmmaker Radu Jude's Bucharest; hunting and politics; land theft in Colombia; an archaeology of sabotage...

61 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists: the fifth issue of e-flux Index features everything published on e-flux.com from August -September 2024, organized according to a "deviant taxonomy" of nine new categories: Is That All There Is?; What a Body Can Do; The Physicists’ Laugh; Dens, clubs, hives, and cells; The Tourist; Flickers; Promethean Shame; Proxies; and Inextinguishable Fires.

The 14th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with interviews Brian Roettinger, Eliott Grunewald, Aurore Piedigrossi, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Mathilde Agius, Marvin Armand and Cécilia Poupon and a conversation between Erwan Bouroullec and Michel Roset.

The debut publication by French, New York-based, photographer Eric Guillemain offers a privileged insider's view into the captivating world of film sets.

Recorded in 2019 at the Centre Pompidou, Music for Today is the last public performance by Canadian artist Michael Snow, who died in 2023. Entirely improvised on a prepared piano, this musical piece is a true journey through the musical work of an artist who made perpetual experimentation an artistic practice in its own right.

Translated into French for the first time, Vivian Sobchack's Le corps du film – Une phénoménologie de l'expérience filmique offers a new perspective to the phenomenological tradition through an interrogation of our cinematographic experience and, more generally, of our relationship to screens.

An anthology of texts by Jean-Michel Bouhours on photographer and filmmaker Paolo Gioli, a key figure in the Italian avant-garde of the 1970s.

Published in collaboration with Harun Farocki Institut, this book unpacks About Narration [Erzählen], a 1975 essay film directed by Ingemo Engström and Harun Farocki.

A selection of Eisenstein's writings (new expanded edition).

64 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists: the fourth issue of e-flux Index features everything published on e-flux.com from June–July 2024, (re)arranged into 9 thematic chapters—ranging from sections on DIY and amateurism, on verbal domination, on contemporary resistance and organising efforts, and on our doomscrolling fatigue with the networked world.

Assisted suicide activists; Lebanon under the bombs; activism at the museum; Laurène Marx; prison life at Les Baumettes in Marseille; in the poetry of Laura Vazquez...

A tribute to Derek Jarman manifold and vital practice.

A tribute to Derek Jarman manifold and vital practice.

In the spring of 1966, four illustrious travelers cross the United States from west to east, photographing America's architecture at its heyday.

The images shot on Egyptian film sets by prominent photographer Fouad ElKoury over more than a decade capture the essence of Arab cinema.

First monograph on cinema duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel.

A very personal essay that provides a clear introduction to Gilles Deleuze's thinking through his relationship with cinema, seen as a field of experimentation (existential, conceptual and aesthetic) to resist death, disaster and the stupefaction produced by the “modern fact”.

First monograph, documenting the filmmaker's work as a whole, at the intersection of independent cinema, contemporary art, photography and installation.

76 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists, published by e-flux between April–May 2024, arranged into 11 thematic chapters—ranging from the live question of cultural censorship through to the role of diagrams and notation in contemporary artistic practice.

The new volume of an experimental series on historiography, about toys.

Film Undone presents contributions introducing unmade and unfinished film projects, film ideas realised in non-filmic media, as well as films that remained unseen in their intended form and at their intended time.

An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.