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Farid Rahimi - Afghanistan
2025
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
This publication is part of Farid Rahimi's eponymous multimedia project, the fruit of long-term research into the memory of Afghanistan, the country of origin of the artist's father.
Bouchra Khalili - The Circle - Chronologie pour une constellation
2025
French edition
Paraguay Press
forthcoming
A visual and text based investigation led by Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili during many years following the traces left by the Mouvement des travailleurs arabes, a group fighting for the rights of the Arab workers in France at the turn of the 1970s.
Salomé Lamas - Gold and Ashes
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A record-cum-publication that unfolds through sound and text by transposing and transforming the soundtrack, dialogues, and images of Salomé Lamas' film Ouro e Cinza / Gold and Ashes (2025); featuring text by Frédéric Neyrat, Isabel Pettermann, Isabel Ramos, Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Salomé Lamas. The experience is intended to be intimate and meditative as it resonates between the spoken and unspoken, between sound and silence.
John Baldessari - Transatlantique
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Invited by Marie de Brugerolle, ten artists, from both sides of the Atlantic (Ericka Beckman, Julien Bismuth, Sharon Lockhart, Tony Oursler, Anna Wittenberg...), look at the work of John Baldessari, one of the leading figures of West Coast conceptual art.
Laure Prouvost - Au fort les âmes sont
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mucem
Exclusive works designed by Laure Prouvost for her carte blanche at the Mucem in Marseille, a series of immersive and poetic installations in the heart of Fort Saint-Jean, photographed by Raphaël Massart for this cut-out book, between an artist's book and an exhibition catalogue, accompanied by drawings and critical texts.
Vika Kirchenbauer - Compassion and Inconvenience
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Compassion and Inconvenience combines artist Vika Kirchenbauer's 30-minute video work Compassion and Inconvenience (2024)—whit its script reproduced alongside stills and audio descriptions—and her essay Instituting Inconvenience and Colonial Relations: The Genesis of European Contemporary Art Institutions in Mid-18th Century London (2025).
Basma al-Sharif - Semi-Nomadic Debt-Ridden Bedouins
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lenz Press
An in-depth look at nearly two decades of artistic output by the Palestinian artist and filmmaker Basma al-Sharif.
Teri Wehn Damisch - Transatlantic Crossings Between the Arts
2025
French edition
Bierke
Four texts by Teri Wehn Damisch, attending to the conception of her films on artist Robert Morris, photographer Gisèle Freund and anthropologist Françoise Héritier.
 She Lea Cheang - KI$$ KI$$
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
Display, Distribute, Disrupt - Contemporary Moving Image Practices
2025
English edition
Diaphanes
The implications of the digitization of image production and distribution on the contemporary ecology of the moving image.
Trần Lương - Soaked in the Long Rain
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first comprehensive publication exploring the practice of Trần Lương, a key figure in Vietnamese contemporary art.
Michael Snow - Music for Today - Solo piano (vinyl LP)
2025
Editedby
Recorded in 2019 at the Centre Pompidou, Music for Today is the last public performance by Canadian artist Michael Snow, who died in 2023. Entirely improvised on a prepared piano, this musical piece is a true journey through the musical work of an artist who made perpetual experimentation an artistic practice in its own right.
Pedro Zylbersztajn - Export Quality Poetry (1924–2024)
2025
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
Joint artistic research, between Switzerland and Brazil, around ideas of consumption and exhaustion, the legacies of colonialist expropriation and its monocultural ideologies, besides the infrastructures of export and displacement, across both countries and their intertwined historie.
Jean-Michel Bouhours - When the Eye Trembles - The Cinema of Paolo Gioli
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Light Cone
An anthology of texts by Jean-Michel Bouhours on photographer and filmmaker Paolo Gioli, a key figure in the Italian avant-garde of the 1970s.
Harun Farocki - About Narration - Materials, Comments, Interventions
2025
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Published in collaboration with Harun Farocki Institut, this book unpacks About Narration [Erzählen], a 1975 essay film directed by Ingemo Engström and Harun Farocki.
Derek Jarman -
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A tribute to Derek Jarman manifold and vital practice.
Derek Jarman -
2024
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A tribute to Derek Jarman manifold and vital practice.
Sonia Boyce - The Joy of Cacophony
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
Sonia Boyce engages with the artist and sound theorist Brandon LaBelle, who guides us through the artist's poetics, considering sound as a form of radical inclusion, a medium capable of generating interaction, narratives and new understanding.
 Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel - Infinite Memory
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
First monograph on cinema duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel.
Véronique Goël - Films et installations, 1979-2023
2024
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.
VISIO - Moving Images in Europe Since the 2010s
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
This volume brings together visions, experiences and critical interdisciplinary methodologies that have been instrumental in the development of the language of moving images since 2010.
En quête d\'images - Écritures sensibles en recherche-création
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An epistemological reflection on sensitive forms of research writing at the crossroads of art, design, anthropology and ergonomics, based on singular inquiry-creation projects.
In Medias Res #3 - Postproductions
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
With Postproduction, the third and final issue of In Medias Res, Fluentum's research project on the history of its premises concludes by literally taking stock of both the production of and productivity inherent in moving images.
Cauleen Smith - Breaking Cinema - Experimental Film 2010-2023
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A significant contribution to the understanding of the work of artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith, by art historian Romi Crawford, who analyzes how Smith recastsfilm history, in a pivotal period of her career.
Micol Roubini - La montagna magica
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
An extensive investigation on the ecosystem of Europe's largest asbestos quarry in Balangero (TO) and the dense network of relations between human and land.
Marc Hurtado - De cœur à cœur
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A large survey of Marc Hurtado's cinematographic, musical, poetic and plastic work, with texts by some thirty authors, artists, critics, poets and musicians from all over the world (Lydia Lunch, Pascal Comelade, Nicolas Ballet, F.J. Ossang, Kris Needs, Nick Soulsby, Nicole Brenez, Vincent Deville, Romain Perrot, Alexandre Breton, Marie Möör...).
Lynn Marie Kirby - Time & Place - On the Work of Lynn Marie Kirby
2024
English edition
X Artists' Books
An exploration of Lynn Marie Kirby 's work through a collection of writing, essays and interviews (Etel Adnan, Lynne Sachs, Jalal Toufic, Alexandra Grant, Trinh T. Minh-ha...).
Ariane Loze -
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
A comprehensive survey of acclaimed artist Ariane Loze's videographic oeuvre.
Anton Vidokle - Citizens of the Cosmos
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This book on the films of Anton Vidokle features essays and conversations by theorists, curators, and artists exploring the themes of technological immortality and resurrection informed by Cosmist philosophy.
Shahryar Nashat - 17 Waves
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
New monograph.
Rudy Trouvé - Musik F​ü​r Animierten Tonspurfilm (vinyl LP)
2024
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
The twelfth album by DAAU is the soundtrack to a series of short, abstract animation films by Rudy Trouvé, who also acted as a creative director during the recording process.
Manuel Wetscher - Richard
2024
English edition
Daisy editions
Photographer and filmmaker Manuel Wetscher brings together in an artist's book a unique archive of photographs by his father Richard Jenewein, discovered years after he died of AIDS. A universal family album documenting childhood, which questions the evocative power of an altered narrative and deals with the effects of a taboo and the poetic force of images.
Doug Aitken - Mirage
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
An immersive book experience: with numerous special printing features, this luxurious accordion-fold volume documents and embodies Aitken's exploration of mirrored surfaces in architecture.
João Maria Gusmão - Massa Confusa
2024
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Massa Confusa is a combinatorial codex cataloguing João Maria Gusmão's recent material transformations in the studio, featuring an accompanying text by the artist and faithful reproductions.
After Laughter Comes Tears
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
After Laughter Comes Tears, in its exhibition and book forms, brings together artists from different generations who are experimenting with the idea of the performative.
Ali Cherri - Dreams of a Dreamless Night
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
The publication is the first institutional monograph on the multimedia practice of artist and director Ali Cherri. It aims to highlight the constellation of ideas, themes, and formal concerns running through his most recent, highly significant projects.
Beatrice Gibson - Dreaming Alcestis
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
Dreaming Alcestis is an artist's book by artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson, conceived as an accompaniment to her holographic film installation of the same name.
Katrina Daschner - Burn & Gloom! Glow & Moon!
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Retrospective monograph: a journey through over two decades of intersectional and queering practices in film, performance, sculpture, community work, and textiles.
Holger Trülzsch - The Seen and the Unseen
2024
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Combining archive material with a wide selection of photographs of body paintings produced by the duo in the 1970-1980s, this publication retraces the evolution of gender identities and the treatment of the female body in visual culture from the 1950s to the present.
Nicolas Cilins - Stills From Seven Works
2024
texts in English, German, French
Nero
A monograph dedicated to Nicolas Cilins’ films between 2011 and 2020.
Olivier Sévère - Oasis
2024
French edition
La Maréchalerie
Artist's book: a "cinematographic" display of previously unpublished visuals by Olivier Sévère, reflecting the phenomenon of mirage, the appearance and disappearance of images, and the presence and absence of water. A text by anthropologist Sophie Brones accompanies the narrative of these Tunisian desert landscapes.
Robert Cahen - La nef des fous (vinyl LP)
2024
INA-GRM - Recollection GRM
Five pieces of musique concrète recorded in the GRM studios between 1971 and 1974 by the composer and pioneering video artist.
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.
 Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson - B for the birds
2023
English edition
Errant Bodies - Errant Edition
B for the birds is a singular book that aims to rethink the film-form as an open cartography of its lines of enquiry, desire and fabulation.
John Akomfrah - A Space of Empathy
2023
English edition
Archive Books
An overview of John Akomfrah's work, with contributions by Julia Grosse and Nelly Y. Pinkrah, an interview with the artist, along with a foreword by Sebastian Baden.
Camille Henrot - Jus d\'Orange
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
A dialogue between Camille Henrot's images and Estelle Hoy's texts, a visual and verbal exploration of melancholy, failure, injustice, and hope.
Eeva Siivonen - A rested development (CD)
2023
Squint.press
A rested development is a collaborative sound and moving image work that used chance as a process to develop a sequence of autonomous elements that intersect and diverge in their unfoldings.
Diego Marcon - Music for Diego Marcon\'s works - Written by Federico Chiari (vinyl LP)
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
The music composed by Federico Chiari for various film and video works by the artist Diego Marcon.
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