Cinema

An experimental novel that combines a critical study, political pamphlet, and lyric ode, with the ambition to build an uninterrupted stream of thought on all the dimensions of the work and life of Buñuel

The fourth title in the “Archives” series, which is dedicated to landmark exhibitions and curatorial practices, and provides sources and moving images to the growing field of research of curatorial studies and exhibition history.

A tribute to film director Derek Jarman (reissue of the second full-length album by Robin Rimbaud / Scanner on Sub Rosa).

A collective project initiated by Valérie Jouve.

What happened to the boy Tadzio on the Venetian Lido beach in Thomas Mann's and Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice? British director Peter Greenaway relates Tadzio's future.

Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka's love for Alma Mahler was so great that he had a life-sized model of her made. The OK Doll, by Peter Greenaway, is the script for an unrealized film about the doll that Kokoschka lived with for three years.

Fully illustrated catalogue of the 14th Geneva Biennial, re-launched by Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève. The 2014 edition presents 22 films and video works, specially commissioned by the Centre (from September 18 to November 23, 2014).

A historical and theoretical reflection, on the border between aesthetics and politics, on the decisive role of the images and the power and limits of representation, in the context of the last genocide of the twentieth century.

Jean-Luc Godard and art (a return on Godard's controversial project at the Centre Pompidou in 2006).

What cinema is.

A statement about speculation, photography, time and withdrawal.

This script by Peter Greenaway follows Russian director Eisenstein to Guanajuato, Mexico, where he worked for ten days on Que Viva Mexico. Ten days that shook Eisenstein face to face with sex and death which changed the man and the filmmaker.

Backwards time in cinema: a study.

Comprehensive new monograph on the influential British avant garde artist-filmmaker—renown for his playful and formally ingenious subversion of the everyday world—, with essays by Ian Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer, and Ethan de Seife.

Part essay, part autobiography, the first book by Japanese filmmaker Daïchi Saïto offers a reflection on the artist's life, career and practice. With a foreword by André Habib, professor of film studies at the University of Montreal and a specialist in experimental cinema.

Through the medium of distinct films, Astrid Schmetterling and Lynn Turner investigate contemporary questions regarding the ethics of recollection and memorialization within visual culture.

Recent video works by the Swiss artists duo: a deconstruction of the cinematic codes within our visual culture.

The transcript of a piece that Paul Sietsema did in early 2011 for an exhibition in Los Angeles.

First French translation of the 1983 artist's fiction book by Richard Prince.

Analyzing a variety of films, video pieces, and performances, Sven Lütticken evaluates the impact that our changing experience of time has had on the actualization of history in the present.

Artist book based on four films by Runa Islam.

Reference monograph, including a comprehensive selection of Yang Fudong's photographic and film work, as well as newly commissioned theoretical essays.

MMX is photographer Raphaele Godin's first book. It presents a series of snapshots of her daily life, taken in the 2010s. 

Collection of interviews with author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge and philosopher and professor of literature Joseph Vogl, specially produced by Kluge for German television.

62 postcards that constitute the collection of the photographs taken and diplayed in the public space in six French regions.

New monograph.

A perspective on contemporary video and multimedia creation.

Artist's book.

Comprehensive monograph.

Reference monograph.

Reference monograph (available in English edition).

Ericka Beckman's Super-8 Piaget trilogy: We Imitate; We Break Up (1978); The Broken Rule (1979); and Out of Hand (1980).

A summer of art.

Lene Berg's films and video works.

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.

Godard and Corman have worked concurrently on the same themes and subjects, using similar stylistic devices and production techniques. The fact that this affinity has so far remained undiscovered has its explanation in hard-set opinions and judgment criteria. Harald Harzheim has now succeeded in breaking this mindset, enabling us see the work of these radical independent filmmakers in a completely new perspective.

A series of texts that serve as literary variations on Jean-Luc Godard's Numéro deux / a film on DVD which can be described as upending the ideas propounded in Godard's film, featuring artists' works as part of a mise en abyme and dialogue.

The project initiated by artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson and typographer Will Holder, based on the eponymous score written by Cornelius Cardew in 1967.

A history of the relations between art and cinema.

Chronicles, articles and essays on contemporary art, cinema, and pop culture.

Taking the form of a ciné-roman, this book, based on Ursula Mayer's 16mm film of the same name, with a screenplay written by Maria Fusco, experiments in cinematic and linguistic registers through polyphonic monologue.

A staging of reality that questions the fictionality of cinema (casting in order of appearance: Douglas Booth, Ashley Hinshaw, Nana Agyapong, Béatrice Rosen, Sharon Stone, Roxane Mesquida, Nicole Garcia...).

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.

Digital book.

The facsimile of HR Giger's Alien Diaries, with unpublished material, including drawings, Polaroids, and still shots.

Keren Cytter's choreographic performance.

Between a critical reader and an artist's book, this publication is dedicated to the eponymous work by Israeli video artist Omer Fast.