Experimental cinema / expanded cinema

Complete monograph on a master of experimental cinema, with a general introduction on its œuvre, several essays, texts by the artist and interviews.

An adventure novel by Keren Cytter, based on a true story told in a televised interview by the Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier

The ongoing history of the experiment in film and art: this book describes and analyses the works of filmmakers and artists, defining two decades of experiments in Polish avant-garde film, and juxtaposes their work with contributions by international artists, who started to work during the last fifteen years.

First monograph of the futuristic artist / film-maker / documentarist.

Two monumental pieces for flutes and additional voices.

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

How to teach art / can we become an artist?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

First comprehensive monograph on British experimental filmmaker Ben Rivers.

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.

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

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

The publication brings together extensive material from Hamlet, mise-en-scène, an homage to Jack Smith presented at Portikus in 2012, along with recently restored and never-published stills, drawings, and writings by the American filmmaker related to his film Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment) (1970-73).

Interviews with Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet conducted and recorded by Thierry Jousse.

Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's writings, from 1954 onward.

A musical project that investigates the perception of the otherness of the world of the crippled and their right to their own self-expression.

A survey of Canadian multidisciplinary artist's work (photographs, films, video installations, sound works), from 1960 to the present day.

A triptych tribute.

Written in seven chapters and seven styles, this book constitutes the first novel by the Israeli artist and filmmaker Keren Cytter.

A collection of film stills by Jonas Mekas, with notes by avant-garde filmaker.

Eleven years after the publication of the first volume of Feminine Futures in 2011, this sequel explores the dance history of abstraction in the feminine, during the first half of the 20th century and continuations today, unfolding new research perspectives with a new body of rare or unpublished original photographs.

A critical history of VideoArt Festival Locarno.

An overview of the early days of video art in Europe, drawing on a network of some fifty researchers.