Dis Voir - Les presses du réel

Peter Greenaway
La Ronde de nuit

2006

French edition

Following the 400th anniversary of the painter's birth, this film script re-reads Rembrandt's most celebrated painting.

Kim Ki-duk

2006

English edition

The first extensive monograph dedicated to the Korean director: moving on the edge for thirty years, Kim Ki-duk physically explored the forthcoming themes of his work as a director – wandering, escape and, especially, survival.

Kim Ki-duk

2006

French edition

The first extensive monograph dedicated to the Korean director: moving on the edge for thirty years, Kim Ki-duk physically explored the forthcoming themes of his work as a director – wandering, escape and, especially, survival.

Elvan Zabunyan
Black Is A Color – A History of African American Art

2004

English edition

In Black is a Color, contemporary art historian and curator Elvan Zabunyan proposes a new approach to contemporary art and its history through the practice of Black American artists from the Harlem Renaissance to today.

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Elvan Zabunyan
Black Is A Color – Une histoire de l'art africain-américain contemporain

2004

French edition

In Black is a Color, contemporary art historian and curator Elvan Zabunyan proposes a new approach to contemporary art and its history through the practice of Black American artists from the Harlem Renaissance to today.

Kathy Acker, Rebecca Stephens, John Cussans, Paul Buck
Spread Wide

2004

English edition

Various artists and authors use two writers' correspondence as a primary source to develop an artistic and literary falsification.

Keep This Sex Out Of My Sight

2003

English edition

A study, by five women, on the artistic representations of the female body (essays by Chrystel Besse, Marie-Joseph Bertini, Arlette Fontan, Françoise Gaillard, and Elvan Zabunyan).

Cachez ce sexe que je ne saurais voir

2003

French edition

A study, by five women, on the artistic representations of the female body (essays by Chrystel Besse, Marie-Joseph Bertini, Arlette Fontan, Françoise Gaillard, and Elvan Zabunyan).

Pierre Huyghe, Douglas Coupland
School Spirit

2002

English edition

An artistic and literary journey through the soul of a dead and disembodied student, lost in the memories and infrastructure of a Californian High school.

Pierre Huyghe, Douglas Coupland
School Spirit

2002

French edition

An artistic and literary journey through the soul of a dead and disembodied student, lost in the memories and infrastructure of a Californian High school.

Peter Greenaway
Gold

2002

English edition

An illustrated novel about the spoliation of property by the Nazi regime, working as an extension of the film trilogy The Tulse Luper Suitcases.

Peter Greenaway
Gold

2002

French edition

An illustrated novel about the spoliation of property by the Nazi regime, working as an extension of the film trilogy The Tulse Luper Suitcases.

Pierre Paulin

2001

English edition

During the second half of the 20th century mythic French designer Pierre Paulin worked out experimental and innovative furniture and is today considered to be a true precursor of new styles of life (comprehensive monograph).

Pierre Paulin

2001

French edition

During the second half of the 20th century mythic French designer Pierre Paulin worked out experimental and innovative furniture and is today considered to be a true precursor of new styles of life (comprehensive monograph).

Bruno Dumont
Humanity

2001

English edition

The corpse of a girl child found in the countryside shakes the dreary existence of a candid investigator. An illustrated book behind the film of the same name by Bruno Dumont.

Bruno Dumont
Life of Jesus

2001

English edition

Life of Jesus is the chronicle of a confused French youth. The novel was used as the basis for the eponymous film by Bruno Dumont.

Bruno Dumont
La vie de Jésus

2001

French edition

Life of Jesus is the chronicle of a confused French youth. The novel was used as the basis for the eponymous film by Bruno Dumont.

Bruno Dumont

2001

English edition

The first monograph dedicated to the French filmmaker.

Bruno Dumont

2001

French edition

The first monograph dedicated to the French filmmaker.

Luigi Colani

2000

French edition

Above and beyond Bio-design, amid the upheaval of a post-industrial society and its search for new landmarks and signs, Luigi Colani has invented an entirely original field: the design of a free man (comprehensive monograph).

Luigi Colani

2000

English edition

Above and beyond Bio-design, amid the upheaval of a post-industrial society and its search for new landmarks and signs, Luigi Colani has invented an entirely original field: the design of a free man (comprehensive monograph).

François Bauchet

2000

English edition

Monograph on French designer François Bauchet, whose work stands on the frontier between functionalism and visual art.

François Bauchet

2000

French edition

Monograph on French designer François Bauchet, whose work stands on the frontier between functionalism and visual art.

Peter Greenaway
A Zed and Two Noughts

2000

English edition

Divided in eight sequences corresponding to the stages of Darwin's Theory of Evolution, A Zed and Two Noughts (Z.O.O) stars two zoologists and conjoined brothers whose lives are dramatically altered when their wives are killed in a car crash. A tragic story in which Greenaway discusses the irreversibility of death as opposed to the reversibility of forms.

Peter Greenaway
The Belly of an Architect

2000

English edition

An American architect goes to Rome to oversee an exhibition on Étienne-Louis Boullée, a French architect from the Eighteenth Century. Accompanied by his young pregnant wife, he soon complains of abdominal pain... This film is a tribute to the figure of the circle, either in Boullée's spherical constructions or through the image of the belly bearing death (the architect's cancer) and life (his pregnant wife).

Peter Greenaway
Eight and a Half Women

1999

English edition

Eight and a half women is a laconic black comedy, an examination of the age-old phenomenon of male sexual fantasy, its roots and its consequences, as well as a homage to Fellini (film script).

Peter Greenaway
Huit femmes et demie

1999

French edition

Eight and a half women is a laconic black comedy, an examination of the age-old phenomenon of male sexual fantasy, its roots and its consequences, as well as a homage to Fellini (film script).

Roger Tallon

1999

English edition

Monograph dedicated to the forerunner of French industrial design. Including a critical essay on Tallon's impact on contemporary international design.

Roger Tallon

1999

French edition

Monograph dedicated to the forerunner of French industrial design. Including a critical essay on Tallon's impact on contemporary international design.

Contemporary Practices – Art as Experience

1999

English edition

How to think reality through the experimental and interpretative aspects of arts (essays by Paul Ardenne, Pascal Beausse, and Laurent Goumarre).

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Pratiques contemporaines – L'art comme expérience

1999

French edition

How to think reality through the experimental and interpretative aspects of arts (essays by Paul Ardenne, Pascal Beausse, and Laurent Goumarre).

Tsai Ming-liang

1999

English edition

A first in-depth study of filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang's universe, both sensual and solitary.

Tsai Ming-liang

1999

French edition

A first in-depth study of filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang's universe, both sensual and solitary.

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Starck's Kids?

1999

English edition

Philippe Starck's legacy through the portraits of his former apprentices.

Petits enfants de Starck ?

1999

French edition

Philippe Starck's legacy through the portraits of his former apprentices.

Garouste & Bonetti

1998

English edition

Monograph dedicated to an iconic couple of the design scene from the 1990's. Their use of uncommon materials with Baroque influence contributed to the development of the “Barbare” style which had a strong impact on contemporary French design aesthetics.

Jasper Morrison

1998

English edition

In the early 1980's, Jasper Morrison anticipated what was to be the ethical position of the designer in a period of crisis, emerging as one of the instigators of the neo-minimalist movement of the 1990s. This monograph elicits the personality of a designer both concerned by questions of plasticity & efficacy and whose work's development obeys an implacable logic of eliminating decorative effects in favor of functionalism.

Bořek Šípek

1998

English edition

Monograph dedicated to Bořek Šípek, whose design is embedded with a sharp mysticism which challenges the rationality of Western European design.

Jasper Morrison

1998

French edition

In the early 1980's, Jasper Morrison anticipated what was to be the ethical position of the designer in a period of crisis, emerging as one of the instigators of the neo-minimalist movement of the 1990s. This monograph elicits the personality of a designer both concerned by questions of plasticity & efficacy and whose work's development obeys an implacable logic of eliminating decorative effects in favor of functionalism.

Bořek Šípek

1998

French edition

Monograph dedicated to Bořek Šípek, whose design is embedded with a sharp mysticism which challenges the rationality of Western European design.

Manoel de Oliveira
Angelica

1998

English edition

The first original screenplay for The Strange Case of Angelica, a long term project started in the fifties and left unfinished until 2010.

Peter Greenaway
Fear of Drowning by Numbers – Règles du jeu

1998

bilingual edition (English / French)

As a footnote to the film Drowning By Numbers, and with intelligence, humour and causticity, Peter Greenaway has undertaken to comment in 100 chapters on the story, the sub-plots, the creation and the possible continuations of his film.

Manoel de Oliveira
Angelica

1998

French edition

The first original screenplay for The Strange Case of Angelica, a long term project started in the fifties and left unfinished until 2010.

Garouste & Bonetti

1998

French edition

Monograph dedicated to an iconic couple of the design scene from the 1990's. Their use of uncommon materials with Baroque influence contributed to the development of the “Barbare” style which had a strong impact on contemporary French design aesthetics.

Michel Gaillot
Multiple Meaning – Techno, An Artistic and Political Laboratory of the Present

1998

English edition

Techno music seen as an experimentation to overcome the sociocultural boundaries instituted in the social space (essay by Michel Gaillot; interviews with Michel Maffesoli and Jean-Luc Nancy).