Cinema & video art

 
See also cinema / video art (index).
 
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S. M. Eisenstein - Cinématisme - Peinture et cinéma
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
forthcoming
A selection of Eisenstein's writings (new expanded edition).
Véronique Goël - Films et installations, 1979-2023
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Cinétisme
First monograph, documenting the filmmaker's work as a whole, at the intersection of independent cinema, contemporary art, photography and installation.
Armelle Talbot - Variations Fassbinder - Images d\'Allemagne, désirs de cinéma
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
A philosophico-cinematographic journey through Fassbinder's filmic oeuvre, from the avant-garde daring of 1968 to the fallout of the leaden years ten years later.
Sites du film - Le cinéma et ses parages
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Perceptions
Cinema as a method of investigating the visible and a journey into the theoretical thinking of images.
Carmelo Bene - L\'esthétique du déplaisir
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
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.
Raphaël Minnesota - Patrice Kirchhofer - Un cinéma pariétal
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
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.
Le cinéma muet italien, à la croisée des arts
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
New perspectives for a history of Italian silent cinema.
Charles de Meaux - Lady in the Portrait (book + Blu-Ray + DVD)
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
The film by Charles de Meaux, with Fan Bingbing, Melvil Poupaud, Jin Shi-Jye, Wu Yue, Thibault de Montalembert, Féodor Atkin, in book (texts by Philippe Azoury, Anne Dary, Donatien Grau, Élisabeth Lebovici, Brice Pedroletti, Thomas Schlesser), on Blu-Ray and DVD.
Yann Beauvais - Agir le cinéma - Écrits sur le cinéma expérimental (1979-2020)
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
An anthology of the theoretical and critical texts on experimental cinema and moving images written by Yann Beauvais in parallel with his films and his activities as programmer and curator.
Repenser le médium - Art contemporain et cinéma
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Medias/Theories
The redefinition of the medium through the interrelation between contemporary art and cinema.
Puissance du végétal et cinéma animiste - La vitalité révélée par la technique
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
A collective and transdisciplinary study of the representation of plants and their powers to reflect on the question of animation, cinema, photography and, more broadly, image, in the Anthropocene era and in the context of the "vegetal turn" at work in the human sciences as well as in contemporary art.
Paolo Gioli - Impressions sauvages
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph of the photographer and filmmaker Paolo Gioli, an active member of the Italian avant-garde of the 1970s: an overview of his work, with a dozen essays, an interview and the artist's writings.
Minor Cinema - Experimental Film in Switzerland
2020
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
An archeology of Swiss experimental film.
Pauline Mari - Hartung Nouvelle Vague - De Resnais vers Rohmer
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Dedalus
Hans Hartung and the cinema.
Carmelo Bene - L\'esthétique du déplaisir
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Exhibiting the Moving Image
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
(last copies available!)
The place of films and moving images in the field of contemporary art.
Malcolm Le Grice - Le temps des images
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Monographs
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.
René Berger - L\'art vidéo
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
Video art history.
Clara Schulmann - Les chercheurs d\'or - Films d\'artistes, histoires de l\'art
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Dedalus
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).
Anne Marquez - Godard, le dos au musée - Histoire d\'une exposition
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Fama
Jean-Luc Godard and art (a return on Godard's controversial project at the Centre Pompidou in 2006).
Johanne Villeneuve - Chris Marker - La compagnie des images
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
Digital book.
Raymond Bellour - Between-the-Images
2012
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
Art and moving images.
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.
Pascale Cassagnau - Intempestif, Indépendant, Fragile - Marguerite Duras et le Cinéma d\'art contemporain
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
New perspectives on Marguerite Duras' cinematographic works and a young generation of videographers / filmmakers.
Jean-Michel Bouhours - Quel cinéma
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
A journey through pivotal moments of the history of experimental cinema.
S. M. Eisenstein - Glass House - Du projet de film au film comme projet
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Fabula
An unfinished project by Eisenstein inspired by the deconstruction of traditional architecture and its ideologies.
Paul Sharits -
2008
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Monographs
Complete monograph on a master of experimental cinema, with a general introduction on its œuvre, several essays, texts by the artist and interviews.
Anna Sanders Films - The In-Between
2003
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
(last copies available!)
27.00 15.00 €
The key book about French production company Anna Sanders Films.
Peter Greenaway - Le Grand Atelier de Peter Greenaway
1998
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
15.00 7.00 €
Collection of texts.
Cinema in the Expanded Field
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
sold out
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.”
Jean-Marc Chapoulie - Alchimicinéma - Enquête sur une image invisible
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Literary field – Fictions
sold out
A film-maker and curator's reflection on moving image and its viewer.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Cinétisme
forthcoming
A critical history of VideoArt Festival Locarno.
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
forthcoming
An overview of the early days of video art in Europe, drawing on a network of some fifty researchers.
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