Cinema

B for the birds is a singular book that aims to rethink the film-form as an open cartography of its lines of enquiry, desire and fabulation.

An overview of John Akomfrah's work, with contributions by Julia Grosse and Nelly Y. Pinkrah, an interview with the artist, along with a foreword by Sebastian Baden.

A trans-theoretical essay: Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux explores the arcana of artists' cult status through a kaleidoscopic series of portraits of "banished" visual artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians and architects, from William S. Burroughs to Jean-Luc Godard via John Cage.

The very first book of Swedish film director, artist, and artistic researcher Ester M. Bergsmark.

The first book to unveil the main pictorial works (drawings, paintings and collages) of the British film director, the source of his entire cinematic oeuvre (new edition).

Poems presents four unpublished poems by American writer and actress Zoë Lund (1962–1999), written in the 1980s. An incandescent voice emerges, revealing the might, sincerity, and precision of her expression, as well as her vulnerability and defiance in the face of death. This is the first publication dedicated to her work.

A study of "spectral" (rather than ghostly) cinema, starting with the film Ringu by Hideo Nakata, as well as a philosophical essay on the haunting of images.

A parallel dive into the images of filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky and photographer Sophie Ristelhueber.

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...

Navigation and montage in Harun Farocki's work.

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).

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

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).

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.

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...

The recording of a literary interpretation of a performance by the artist Pablo Pijnappel.

The 12th 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.

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's soundtrack for Seascape – polyptych, an audio-visual software developed in collaboration with Canadian new media artist Clive Holden.

The temporal dimension of the image.

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...

A retrospective devoted to Jonas Mekas's 70-year activity within and beyond the history of avant-garde cinema.

A fully-fledged artistic project expanded with writings, poems, and aphorisms by the artist alongside various interviews.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

A major archival discovery: a stunning document of the only performance by the trio of Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt and Jim O'Rourke.

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.

An analysis of Caribbean film production.

A life, between art and cinema (the Swiss film curator’s visual autobiography, with guest appearances from Fassbinder, Warhol, Waters and many more).

The Arabic edition of Ahmed Bouanani's book on the history of Moroccan cinema from 1907 to 1986, published for the first time 33 years after it was written: a hybrid text with prodigious inspiration.

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.

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.

An exploration of the history of Indian cinema from its origins in the late 19th century to the present day (also available in English).

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.

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.

A new monograph devoted to Éric Baudelaire's work and collaborative method, tracing the connection between his films and his curatorial projects.

A new monograph devoted to Éric Baudelaire's work and collaborative method, tracing the connection between his films and his curatorial projects.

The naturist films of the Swiss director Werner Kunz (1926-2018), pioneer of sexual liberation in cinema.

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.

The first comprehensive publication documenting Israeli artist and experimental cinematographer Ran Slavin's work.

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.

A complete overview of the vast cinematographic project of the Italian artist and director around the "Arab Spring".

Publication based on a film by Stephen Loye about the micro-stories that emanate from the territory where the Germanwings A320 crash took place on March 24, 2015.

A series of reflections on major contemporary issues in the framework of feminism, individual and collective emancipation and self-organization, based on the film Scuola senza fine (1983) by Adriana Monti, figurehead of Italian feminist cinema.

The 11th issue of the biannual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), inaugurating its new formula, with NORM, Feng Li, Marco De Mutiis, Zachary Lieberman, Maïwenn, Lionel Baier, Abel Ferrara...

A visual anthology compiling the contributions of the filmmakers who are part of the Light Cone collection, a key institution for the distribution, promotion and preservation of experimental cinema in France and around the world, on the occasion of its 40th anniversary.