Experimental cinema / expanded cinema

 
 
Antonio Grulli - Tel Aviv - Jerusalem Diary
2019
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A travel diary / a screenplay.
Emmanuelle K. - L\'oiseleur
2019
French edition
Supernova - Poetry and storytelling
A courtly tale that takes the form of prose poems, dedicated to Surrealist artist Benjamin Péret. Written by Emmanuelle K., poet, storyteller, video artist, and companion of the Situationist International.
Babette Mangolte - Selected Writings - 1998-2015
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
A collection of texts by the French-American photographer and filmmaker in which she reflects on her artistic practice and discusses her collaborations with other filmmakers, artists, dancers and choreographers such as Marina Abramović, Chantal Akerman, Trisha Brown, and Yvonne Rainer.
Dziga Vertov - Le ciné-œil de la révolution - Écrits sur le cinéma
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Medias/Theories
A collection of texts by Soviet avant-garde filmmaker and theoretician Dziga Vertov, including a critical apparatus and visual documents.
Keren Cytter - The Brutal Turtle
2018
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
Second in a trilogy of children's books, The Brutal Turtle tells the story of a Turtle wandering in the desert, trying to reach the animal farm. Facing cruel obstacles during his journey, he becomes angry and terrorizes the farm's people once he arrives at the farm. A tale on power's relativity, hate, violence, and on the importance to be nice.
Keren Cytter - The Furious Hamster
2018
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
The last in a trilogy of children's books, this publication tells the story of a hamster stuck between the pages of a book. Wishing to escape to discover the animal farm, he will find the help of his own fleas. A story about caring and learning, by artist Keren Cytter.
Gianfranco Baruchello - Archive of Moving Images - 1960-2016
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The publication is the first comprehensive study of Baruchello's relationship with the moving image from the sixties on.
Paolo Gioli - Etruschi Polaroid 1984
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This publication features an unpublished series of artworks by artist Paolo Gioli based on polaroid images of etruscan funerary sculptures set in the Italian city of Volterra. The volume is supplemented by a text on Volterra by novelist D. H. Lawrence, and an essay by historian of photography Roberta Valtorta.
 Workshop of the Film Form / Warsztat Formy Filmowej -
2018
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
25.00 18.75 €
An overview of the works of the avant-garde group Warsztat Formy Filmowej (WFF), pioneers of video art in Poland and structural cinema in Central and Eastern Europe between 1970 and 1977. The publication examines all of the aspects of the WFF's activity, as well as their pedagogical heritage.
Du film performatif
2018
French edition
it: editions
Mapping the practices of performative cinema today.
Robert Breer - Robert Breer A to Z
2018
English edition
Light Cone
currently out of stock
A self-portrait (a collection of Robert Breer's interviews, correspondence and statements over fifty years).
Robert Breer - Robert Breer A à Z
2018
French edition
Light Cone
A self-portrait (a collection of Robert Breer's interviews, correspondence and statements over fifty years).
Józef Robakowski - Nearer–Farther
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
First major catalogue dedicated to one of the biggest representatives of Polish art and experimental cinema, Józef Robakowski. The publication presents some of the artist's most significant works and his research on the language of film and montage. It includes and interview with Marina Abramović, one of Robakowski's colleague at the time of the Soviet Union.
Érik Bullot - Le film et son double - Boniment, ventriloquie, performativité
2017
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
An investigation on the performative future of cinema, followed by two studies on Lettrist's cinema and on the end of the projectionist.
Early Video Art and Experimental Films Networks
2017
English edition
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
(last copies available!)
An international history of video art and experimental cinema networks in the early 1970s: the volume casts a new eye on various exhibitions, broadcasts and production and distribution structures, including a case study on Jonas Mekas' Anthology Film Archives.
Ute Holl - The Moses Complex - Freud, Schoenberg, Straub/Huillet
2017
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
With this essay, Ute Holl analyzes in detail and deep historical context major works by Freud, Schoenberg, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, all inspired by the figure of Moses. The author offers a dynamic and comprehensive political and cultural theory of migration and violence.
 Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi - The Arrow of Time - Notes from a Russian Journey – 1989-1990
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This publication reproduces the experimental filmmakers' notebooks from their journey in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s. Gianikian & Ricci Lucchi undertook this travel to gather the memories of the cinematographic literary and artistic Russian avant-garde of the '20s and '30s, seeking out survivors and listening to their life stories.
Morgan Fisher - Off-Screen Cinema
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
A collection of texts by researchers, artists and critics, exploring Morgan Fisher's filmography in relation to his other artistic practices.
Gianfranco Baruchello - Dreams
2017
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
In this publication, artist Gianfranco Baruchello and writer Michele Mari join forces to provide descriptions of their own dreams. Baruchello's illustrations and Mari's written notes unveil oneiric worlds made of symbols, recurring images, and obsessions, and address the question: just what are dreams made of?
Morgan Fisher - Un cinéma hors champ
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
A collection of texts by researchers, artists and critics, exploring Morgan Fisher's filmography in relation to his other artistic practices.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Malcolm Le Grice - Le temps des images
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Monographs
Espace multimedia Gantner
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.
Phill Niblock - T H I R (DVD)
2015
Matière Mémoire
currently out of stock
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.
Martial Raysse - Cinéma Martial Raysse
2014
French edition
Mennour
Martial Raysse and cinema.
Paul-Emmanuel Odin - L\'inversion temporelle du cinéma - Tête à queue de l\'univers
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Backwards time in cinema: a study.
Robert Breer - ATOZ (DVD)
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Franche-Comté - Alphabet series
An animated film by Robert Breer.
Érik Bullot - Sortir du cinéma - Histoire virtuelle des relations de l\'art et du cinéma
2013
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
A history of the relations between art and cinema.
Phill Niblock - Working Title (+ DVDs)
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
Frac Franche-Comté - Monographs & catalogues
An overview of American minimalist composer, filmmaker and video artist Phill Niblock's work since the 60's, through about twenty essays and interviews by musicologists, art critics and historians, various documents, scores, and more than 8 hours of videos on DVDs.
Keren Cytter - D.I.E. Now - The True Story of John Webber and His Endless Struggle with the Table of Content
2012
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Keren Cytter's choreographic performance.
Vincent Nordon - Straub/Huillet, non merci ? - La plainte d\'un ami
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Fama
A litterary tribute to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet by the director, screenwriter and writer Vincent Nordon.
Vincent Nordon - Straub/Huillet, non merci ? - La plainte d\'un ami
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Fama
A litterary tribute to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet by the director, screenwriter and writer Vincent Nordon.
Keren Cytter - Four Seasons / Nightmare
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
Monograph based on two films by Keren Cytter.
Poor Man\'s Expression - Technology, Experimental Film, Conceptual Art
2011
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
28.00 14.00 €
Poor Man's Expression examines the relationship between film, video, technology, and art, with a particular focus on the reciprocal influences between conceptual art and experimental film.
Lev Manovich - Le langage des nouveaux médias
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
Espace multimedia Gantner
French translation of Manovich's major book The Language of New Media, the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media.
Keren Cytter -
2010
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Sternberg Press - Fiction
Six Keren Cytter's scripts for films.
Jean-Michel Bouhours - Quel cinéma
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A journey through pivotal moments of the history of experimental cinema.
Owen Land - Dialogues - A film by Owen Land
2010
bilingual edition (English / German)
Paraguay Press
A book based on American experimental filmmaker Owen Land's last movie.
Jonas Mekas - To Petrarca (book / CD)
2009
English edition
Dis Voir - ZagZig (books / CDs)
To Petrarca works as a sound diary with images and sounds following a structure similar to Mekas' pioneering film diaries. Originally broadcasted on French radio, this original sound piece culled from the artist' personal archives. The accompanying book expends it with personal drawings, photos and correspondence.
Jonas Mekas - A Pétrarque (book / CD)
2009
French edition
Dis Voir - ZagZig (books / CDs)
To Petrarca works as a sound diary with images and sounds following a structure similar to Mekas' pioneering film diaries. Originally broadcasted on French radio, this original sound piece culled from the artist' personal archives. The accompanying book expends it with personal drawings, photos and correspondence.
Paul Sharits -
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Espace multimedia Gantner
Complete monograph on a master of experimental cinema, with a general introduction, several essays, texts by the artist and interviews (available in English edition).
Paul Sharits -
2008
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Monographs
Espace multimedia Gantner
Complete monograph on a master of experimental cinema, with a general introduction on its œuvre, several essays, texts by the artist and interviews.
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