Cinema

The first monograph to explore the entire work of the master of Portuguese film (interview with and visual lay-out by Manoel de Oliveira).

A retrospect on the abundant work of this poetic artist, explorer of images and builder of labyrinths who expresses himself on film, in the theater and in his writings. Interview with, and visual lay-out by Raul Ruiz.

This monograph points up the many facets of Greenaway's work—pictorial, literary, musical and philosophical—all of which are inherent to his films.

Reference monograph.

Reference monograph, with an introduction by Herbert Read and autobiographical texts by the artist.

Reference monograph, with an introduction by Herbert Read and autobiographical texts by the artist.

Reference monograph, with an introduction by Herbert Read and autobiographical texts by the artist.

71 contributions from 74 authors, artists, architects, and educators published by e-flux between February–March 2024: Charles Tonderai Mudede, Anna Kornbluh, Adeline Chia, Juan José Santos, Xin Wang, Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung, Salmaan Craig, Maddie Hampton, Jamila Squire, Seth Wheeler, Evan Calder Williams, Anya Sirota, Claudio Medeiros, Victor Galdino, Jason Read, Luis Camnitzer, Ecosistema Urbano, Noah Simblist, Hide and Seek Audiovisual Art, Denny Mwaura, Oriab Toukan, Antonia Majaca, Sylvie Fortin, Hallie Ayres...

This first issue of e-flux 's bimonthly publishing project presents the pieces published by e-flux in December 2023 and January 2024. The metadata gives some indication of its breadth, spanning 48 pieces, 52 authors, and over 150,000 words. Following its wider editorial ambitions to co-articulate multiple discourses, the Index removes the identity cards anchoring these pieces to their original provenance, and instead "meta-edits" them into nine emergent thematic strands.

Two monumental pieces for flutes and additional voices.

An overview of Agnès Varda's work, from her films to her visual works: collages, video art, installations and photographs (especially those made in Portugal in the 1950s).

A retrospective devoted to Jonas Mekas's 70-year activity within and beyond the history of avant-garde cinema.

With their sixth studio album, Oiseaux-Tempête unveils a new facet of its mythology through a dense work that carries darkness towards the light of day, that rumbles, calms down and warms up again. Like the silhouette of a lighthouse that reveals itself as its torch rises and shines, the powerful beauty of What On Earth (Que Diable) radiates into an expanding musical cosmos.

How to teach art / can we become an artist?

The soundtrack from Chris Marker's Sci-Fi short drama "La Jetée".

A multiformat release inspired by and channeling the culture and traditions of the Aeta, an indigenous group from the Zambales region in the Philippines, some of the most ancient nomadic and hunter gathering cultures. A sonic exorcism filled with ancestral frequencies, haunted ghosts, and other animistic spirits from the Pinatubo forests, going from the realms of the real to the imaginary, from transcription to syncretism, from concrete to abstract.

The first publication of a lost 1978 text by Peter Gidal—one of the most influential experimental filmmakers ever.

An electronic interpretation of the works of Phill Niblock by the Prague-based group Opening Performance Orchestra.

Collector's edition box set including the soundtrack realised by the great Russian composer Edward Artemiev for the Andrey Tarkovsky's masterpiece film Solaris (1972). The box comes with the remastered soundtrack in the vinyl and CD formats, and an exclusive luxurious photo book with unreleased images of the movie set and essays about music and cinema of the duo Artemiev/Tarkovsky.

A conversation about performance, genre and cinema in the subversive work of Brice Dellsperger.

From Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich to Basma Alsharif and Pauline Oliveros, Deux Soeurs brings together a chorus of voices that explore representations of parenthood, friendship, and disobedience.

The soundtrack realised by the great Russian composer Edward Artemiev for the Andrey Tarkovsky's masterpiece film Solaris (1972). The box comes with the soundtrack on CD, and an exclusive luxurious photo book with unreleased images of the movie set and essays about music and cinema of the duo Artemiev/Tarkovsky.

Oiseaux-Tempête's first original soundtrack composed for the second feature film by critically-acclaimed Tunisian Director Ala Eddine Slim. Fully instrumental, this immersive film score is also their most electronic album to date.

Oiseaux-Tempête's first original soundtrack composed for the second feature film by critically-acclaimed Tunisian Director Ala Eddine Slim. Fully instrumental, this immersive film score is also their most electronic album to date.

First time release of these live-recordings by Phill Niblock from 2007 and 2019 (organ, played by Hampus Lindwall, and tapes).

The script of Harmony Korine's new movie The Beach Bum.

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.

Michael Snow's The Last LP is an extraordinary collection of tracks “of rare music derived from threatened, obsolete, or now-extinct cultures from around the world” that although the claiming of being field recordings of ancient musical experiences, are in fact pieces played, conceived and recorded by the artist himself.

Studies for paintings and sculptures.

Publication focusing on Cantor's final project Pinochet Porn (2008–16)—an epic experimental film taking the form of a soap opera about the intimate life of people under the military dictatorship of Chile. A dramatic, transgressive and explicitly feminist work, embodying and radically extending Cantor's multifaceted artistic practice.

The films of Ana Mendieta.

An anthology of texts devoted to cinematographic editing (Eisenstein, Tarkovski, Bazin, Godard, Wiseman, van der Keuken, Deleuze, Agamben...), from the beginning of the 20th century to today.

Monographic study dedicated to director, video artist and photographer Clarisse Hahn. Edited by Nicole Brenez, the publication gathers writings encompassing the variety of her work, from contemporary art to cinema, guerilla groups, and eroticism; conversations with Clarisse Hahn, artists, and art historians; and a series of reproductions of her artworks, photographs, photograms, and videograms.

Collector's edition box set including the soundtrack realised by the great Russian composer Edward Artemiev for the Andrey Tarkovsky's masterpiece film Solaris (1972). The box comes with the soundtrack in the vinyl and CD formats, an exclusive luxurious photo book with unreleased images of the movie set and essays about music and cinema of the duo Artemiev/Tarkovsky, and the Blu-ray version of the film, in original language with English subtitles.

First comprehensive monograph on British experimental filmmaker Ben Rivers.

Although the short-lived Brazilian cultural movement known as Tropicália is most commonly associated with music and the visual arts, its sense of playfulness and strategies of appropriation have stimulated many of the country's filmmakers from the 1960s to the present. This richly illustrated publication features essays, interviews, and manifestos with many key filmmakers and scholars reflecting on Tropicália's influence on Brazilian cinema.

First English edition of a colossal volume on Pasolini's cinematographic oeuvre, first published in the 1980s in Italy: 2.000 film stills ranged under the categories of “bodies” and “places”, with analysis and a compilation of texts by Pasolini. A Pasolinian publication in terms of both content and form, as well as an indispensable tool for research. The book contains also the original text in Italian.

Compilation album Metaphors contains 14 soundworks carefully selected from the Cinema of the Thai film director. Includes Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Syndromes and a Century, Fever Room and more.

Compilation album Metaphors contains 14 soundworks carefully selected from the Cinema of the Thai film director. Includes Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Syndromes and a Century, Fever Room and more.

The unfinished works of Sergei Eisenstein are traversed by aesthetic, anthropological, and political questions. Focusing on the anthropology of rhythm that the Soviet director developed in his Mexican project, Que viva Mexico!, this book also extends its analysis to the film projects Bezhin Meadow and The Great Fergana Canal.

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.

This 3CD set gathers the complete work by Luc Ferrari for films  from 1960 to 1984 including electronic pieces, concrete music made in GRM and some hybrid including traditional instruments. These rare and for the most part unpublished recordings comprise collaborations with Jean Cocteau and Jean Tinguely.

This artist's book compiles true propaganda photographs of the Third Reich with stills from actors playing Nazis in Hollywood movies: a radical commentary on our alarming present condition, in which the lines between populist and fascistic politics are increasingly blurring.

Unreleased recordings composed for the cinema and the television.

Catalogue dedicated to the late American artist: an influential photographer, writer, filmmaker, theorist and critic whose works have been a unique reference in debates and conversations about photography, art and politics for over 40 years. The publication includes a historical and analytical text by curator Marie Muracciole, as well as a 20-page photographic booklet.

The new novel by Keren Cytter: an incomplete guide for life.

The first monograph to focus exclusively on Paul Sietsema's paintings and drawings.

A collection of musical works from the seventies by the Canadian multidisciplinary artist.

Initiated by filmmaker Raya Martin and critic Antoine Thirion, UNdocumenta is the catalogue of the eponymous film festival revolving around the lost accounts of cinema (through material destruction, acts of censorship, political, economic or human contingencies) and condemned histories of nations (by social displacement, cultural annihilation or deliberate disappearance).

The artist's own archive of phantasmagoria: a unique collection of objects and ephemera relating to magic, the paranormal, occultism, pseudoscience, technology as well as their cultural and media portrayals (new edition).