Cinema

 
 
 Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz - I Want
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
I Want reviews the eponymous duo's double-projection film installation examining issues of gender, sexuality and performativity—and inspired by the words of punk poetess Kathy Acker and convicted whistle-blower Chelsea Manning.
Francesc Ruiz - Fahrenheit 451\'s Comic
2016
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Captures - Artist's books
Reconstitution of a comic book appearing at the beginning of the film Fahrenheit 451 by François Truffaut. With this publication, Spanish artist Francesc Ruiz also questions the status of the comic book at the time the film was made and also within the dystopian universe originally created by Ray Bradbury.
Luigi Comencini - Italia 1945-1948
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
50 black & white photographs of post-war Italy taken by director Luigi Comencini shortly before his debut behind the camera. With a series of writings establishing connections between his work as a photographer and his cinematographic oeuvre.
La Tranchée Racine - Spécial L\'Étrange festival
2016
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La Tranchée Racine
United Dead Artists
Special issue published to celebrate the 22nd edition of L'Étrange festival—dedicated to the strangest and most provocative cinema.
François Boutonnet - Mnemosyne - A History of the Arts of Memory from Antiquity to Contemporary Multimedia Creation
2016
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
François Boutonnet's Mnemosyne offers the first consideration of the “Arts of Memory” from antiquity to contemporary art, connecting it to mind mapping in digital culture.
Peter Greenaway - Joseph
2016
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
The script for Joseph, the new film by Peter Greenaway, an ironic portrayal of the figure of Joseph, father of Jesus. Here, God—“the other father”—becomes, in Greenaway's words, “vulnerable to jealousy… since he has a rival on earth.”
Emily Jacir - Translatio
2016
English edition
Nero
Uniting the artist with two scholars of the Medieval Mediterranean, John Lansdowne and Christopher MacEvitt, this volume illustrates the movement of objects, images, people and places between Palestine and Italy.
Ericka Beckman -
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Retrospective monograph on all Beckman's video works since the 1970s.
Mouvement
2016
French edition
Mouvement
Théo Mercier, Malika Djardi, Markus Öhrn, the online art market, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, French post-punk, being an artist in Central Asia, nudity on stage, the footballer as a modern artist, “Iran” special feature with Barbad Golshiri and Amir Reza Koohestani…
Virgil Vernier - Arcana 1
2016
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Editions Lutanie
Artist's book by French filmmaker Virgil Vernier, Arcana I is the first of a series of books designed to build up an archive of the present time through a collection of emblematic documents from the 21st century produced by media, advertising and Internet. Arcana I gathers images of luxury watches cut out from magazines, with no typographical mention so to reveal the peculiar aura of these objects.
Mathilde Rouxel - Jocelyne Saab - La mémoire indomptée
2016
French edition
various
(last copies available!)
The first monogaphic study dedicated to French-Lebanese filmmaker and photograph Jocelyne Saab and her works from 1970 to 2015.
Pier Paolo Pasolini - Initiales - Initiales P.P.P.
2016
French edition
Initiales
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
6th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Jane Feuer - Mythologies du film musical
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
First French translation of a pioneering study on Hollywood musicals.
Elisabeth Bronfen - Mad Men, Death and the American Dream
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
Elisabeth Bronfen gives a clever analysis on one of the most influential show of the 21th century, arguing that, beyond the retro-revival, Mad Men builds a comment on the state of the US nation and on the mirage of the American Dream.
Alexander Kluge - Le raid aérien sur Halberstadt le 8 avril 1945
2016
French edition
Diaphanes - Literature
Filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge combines fiction and reality to deliver one of the most striking testimonies that have been written about the bombing of German cities by the Allies.
Marnie Weber - The Day of Forevermore - Synopsis, Script, Storyboard
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
A complete documentation on Marnie Weber's first feature film, a strange kind of carnival that emerges from the American cultural repressed.
Cinema in the Expanded Field
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
(last copies available!)
This volume, published in parallel to Exhibiting the Moving Image, extends the inquiry into the history, theory and practice of exhibiting artists' cinema, video, installation as well as advertising films, by focusing on the domains of performance and of the “expanded arts.”
Mario Pfeifer - Approximation in the digital age for a humanity condemned to disappear
2016
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This publication describes the making of a multiple-screen video installation made by Mario Pfeifer while living on Navarino Island, Chile. This anthropological film looks at the life of the descendants of the area's indigenous Yaghan people, and portrays a nation and community that is violently undergoing cultural and religious, social, political and economic transformation.
Keren Cytter - Terminal
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Nora Schultz gathered digital associations made with Google's image search engine, and then asked nine other artists to build a series of textual and visual narratives around her results (an artists' book designed by Keren Cytter).
The Exhibition of a Film
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mathieu Copeland editions
What would an exhibition be like if we changed the environment from the gallery, museum, or Kunsthalle, to that of the cinema? (a project by Mathieu Copeland, with Chantal Akerman, Peter Downsbrough, Liam Gillick, John Giorno, Philippe Grandrieux, Isidore Isou, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Meredith Monk, Lee Ranaldo, Susan Stenger, Alan Vega, Jacques Villeglé, Lawrence Weiner, Apichatpong Weerasethakul...).
 Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - The Rumors of  the World - Rethinking Trust in the Age of the Internet
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.
 Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - Les rumeurs du monde - Repenser la confiance à l\'âge de l\'Internet
2015
French edition
Villa Arson
This book traces the work and research of filmmakers and visual artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and their exploration through their work of online spam e-mails, specifically, advance-fee frauds and scam messages.
Fabrice Bourlez - Pulsions pasoliniennes
2015
French edition
Franciscopolis
(last copies available!)
An original reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini's work and “impulses”, between aesthetic and psychoanalytic reflection.
Grazia Varisco - If... - 1960-2015
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Monograph / catalogue dedicated to the work of kinetic artist and co-founder of Gruppo T Grazia Varisco.
Tony Conrad - Two Degrees of Separation / Über zwei Ecken
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A compact monograph containing gathering a visual documentation, two essays and a conversation with Tony Conrad, whose multi-faceted contributions since the 1960's have influenced and redefined music, filmmaking, minimalism, performance, video and conceptual art.
 Nguyen Trinh Thi - Lettres de Panduranga
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Letters from Panduranga evokes the fate of the Vietnamese Cham community, whose territory is threatened by the construction of two nuclear power plants. Acting as an ethnologist Nguyen Trinh Thi explores the issues related to speech and history as well as new forms of colonialism.
Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu - Le cinéma d\'Arnaud et Jean-Marie Larrieu - Entretiens avec Quentin Mével
2015
French edition
Independencia
Conversation with filmmakers Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu.
Ragnar Kjartansson -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
New monograph.
Gabriel Lester - Forced Perspectives
2015
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Lester's second monograph is an alphabetical assortment of the artist's most prominent installations, interventions, sculptures, and films of the past fifteen years.
Jack Smith - Hamlet, mise-en-scène - EXTRA TROUBLE – Jack Smith in Frankfurt
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
The publication brings together extensive material from Hamlet, mise-en-scène, an homage to Jack Smith presented at Portikus in 2012, along with recently restored and never-published stills, drawings, and writings by the American filmmaker related to his film Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment) (1970-73).
Gianfranco Baruchello - Verifica Incerta (DVD)
2015
original version, subtitles in English and Italian
JRP|Editions - Bureau des Videos (DVD)
Avant-garde meets Cinecittà: in 1964, artists Baruchello and Griffi edit found footage of Hollywood films from the fifties in Italian version. This original assemblage seeks to disclose the formatting process in the Cinema Industry and offer a new meaning to images.
Kamran Sadeghi - Approximation (vinyl LP)
2015
Sternberg Press - Audio / video
Musician Kamran Sadeghi took field recordings from an anthropological research on Tierra del Fuego as a starting point to compose his digital musical score for a video installation by Mario Pfeifer.
Keren Cytter - Peep-Hole Sheet - A Drivel
2015
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A drivel is a short story wrote by Keren Cytter in a style reminiscent of Witold Gombrowicz, though its meaning gets lost in the continuous intertwining of characters, their stories and their memories.
Thierry Davila - Shadow Pieces (David Claerbout)
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
An innovative study of David Claerbout's work, following the shady—and dark—logic, until now never raised by critics, that structures many of his films with mineral duration and slowness, but also number of “invisible” photographs.
Jeux sérieux - Cinéma et art contemporains transforment l\'essai
2015
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
The cinematic essay thought as a hybrid form between fiction and documentary, cinema and contemporary art: a cartography of the contemporary cinematic essay in 47 critical texts written by filmmakers, artists, historians and art theoreticians.
Nicole Brenez - “We Support Everything since the Dawn of Time That Has Struggled and Still Struggles” - Introduction to Lettrist Cinema
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A presentation of the key figures and the basic concepts of Lettrist cinema, which prefigured the breakthroughs of the nouvelle vague and the experiments of expanded cinema.
Carsten Höller - “Fara Fara” - A Film Not Made
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A photographic account of Carsten Höller's journeys to the Democratic Republic of the Congo for the purpose of a film about Fara Fara music.
Dominique Pasqualini - <s>Ciné</s>m.a. - Emma Fructidor
2015
French edition
various
A book-film.
Patrick Bernatchez - Les temps inachevés
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Casino Luxembourg
Reference monograph: an extensive survey of Patrick Bernatchez's drawings, sculptures, sound installations and films.
Ragnar Kjartansson - To Music
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
(last copies available!)
Comprehensive monograph (second edition).
Exhibited Cinema - Exhibiting artists\' films, video art and moving image
2015
bilingual edition (texts in English and French)
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
The aim of the volume Exhibited Cinema is to reconstruct the history of cinema in exhibition contexts and to trace its archeology, through original essays by researchers, curators, artists and filmmakers.
João Maria Gusmão - Teoria Extraterrestre
2015
bilingual edition (English / French booklet)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Reference monograph.
Deimantas Narkevičius - Da capo - Fifteen Films
2015
English edition
Archive Books
A textual rendering of fifteen films from 1997 to 2015, completed by authors' comments and introductory notes by Narkevičius himself.
Allan Sekula - Ship of Fools / The Dockers\' Museum
2015
French edition
Frac Bretagne
Sekula's final work dedicated to labor solidarity in and around the docks.
Manfred Hermes - Hystericizing Germany - Fassbinder, Alexanderplatz
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
19.00 8.00 €
An excursive analysis of the potential of narration within the paradoxes of cinematic representation.
 Murcof - Lost in Time (2 vinyl LP)
2015
Casino Luxembourg
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.
 Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz - Aftershow
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A monograph / artists' book that engages with the recent film installations of Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz.
Mark Lewis - Above and Below
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
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).
Ernie Gehr - Bon Voyage
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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.
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