Recommended Reading: A Book List on Independent Film & Cinema

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  Moderne Kunst Nürnberg David Lynch: The Marriage of Picture and Sound In October 2010, David Lynch received the Kaiserring award, presented annually to visual artists by the city of Goslar, Germany. Following the awards ceremony, Lynch gave a press conference and took questions from a number of local schoolchildren about his work. This 45-minute audio CD is edited from both occasions to produce an audio portrait of Lynch's thought and life. Here, Lynch recalls his childhood and his early love of painting, and discusses such topics as daydreaming, dream logic, meditation, his favorite kinds of shots (such as "people coming out of darkness"), the studio system, painting and film, and the titular relationship between image and sound. The disc closes with a short discussion by Marilyn Manson, who recounts his first encounter with Lynch and the filming of Lost Highway. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Brigade Commerz, Robert Eikmeyer, Thomas Knoefel. CD-Audio, 5.5 x 7.5 in. Publication Date: 4/30/2012 List Price: US $24.00

  JRP|Ringier Ericka Beckman Ericka Beckman began making super-8 films in New York’s late-1970s No Wave scene, alongside artists of the Pictures Generation.” This DVD contains her Super-8 Piaget trilogy: We Imitate; We Break Up (1978); The Broken Rule (1979); and Out of Hand (1980): three giddy, game-playing choreographies whose hypnotic rhythms draw inspiration from child psychology and early cartoons, and star such artist-friends as Mike Kelley, Matt Mullican and James Casebere. Jim Hoberman described We Imitate; We Break Up as a high school gym class taught by Georges Méličs in a space designed by Giorgio de Chirico” and Out of Hand like an Allstate Insurance commercial as it might appear to an autistic child.” In these now classic films, Beckman’s orchestrated robotic movements, bright costumes, deadpan jump-rope mantras and looping or frenetic soundtracks offer postpunk lessons in behavioral patterns. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Lionel Bovier. DVD (PAL), 5.25 x 7.5 in. Publication Date: 6/30/2012 List Price: US $49.95

  Moderne Kunst Nürnberg The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer The Pendulum, the Pit, and other Pecularities Jan Svankmajer (born 1934) is one of the most celebrated animation filmmakers in the world. Widely imitated and hugely influential for several generations of directors and animators, including Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam and the Brothers Quay, Svankmajer populates his surreal universe with sentient household objects, morphing clay figures, grotesquely exaggerated everyday sounds and a mood of paranoia pitched somewhere between Kafka and Poe. Among his best known works are the feature films Alice (1988), Faust (1994) and Conspirators of Pleasure (1996), and the short Dimensions of Dialogue (1982--chosen by Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animations ever). His most recent film is 2010’s Surviving Life. The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer is the first monographic overview of this major artist’s work. Including excellent film stills, sculptures, illustrations and an interview with the filmmaker, it spans nearly 40 years of visionary creativity. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Ursula Blickle, Gerald A. Matt. Text by Gaby Hartel, Norbert M. Schmitz, Bert Rebhandl. Interview by by Gerald A. Matt. Clth, 8.25 x 9.25 in. / 240 pgs / 160 color. Publication Date: 4/30/2012 List Price: US $55.00

  D.A.P./C.T. Editions Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel A classic returns! The original edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974, and has been out of print since 1987. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored.” So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago are still relevant today, and readily accessible in this classic volume. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, Film as a Subversive Art analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions. This subversion of form, as well as . . . . [see book details]

  By Amos Vogel. Foreword by Scott MacDonald. Paperback, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 344 pgs / 300 color. Publication Date: 9/15/2005 List Price: US $25.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Weimar Cinema 1919-1933 Daydreams and Nightmares Published in conjunction with The Museum of Modern Art's presentation of 75 feature-length films from the Weimar era, many only recently restored, Weimar Cinema reconsiders the broad spectrum of influential films made in Germany between the World Wars. German and American films competed on the world market, and the stylistic accomplishments of the many German film artists who emigrated to Hollywood before Hitler took power deeply affected American cinema. Weimar Cinema is the first comprehensive survey of this period to include popular films--musicals, comedies, the "daydreams" of the working class--along with the nightmarish classics such as Fritz Lang's Dr. Mabuse der Spieler and M; F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens; and G.W. Pabst's Pandora's Box. Richly illustrated with film stills, the book examines how and why our understanding of these films has changed in the last half century, and investigates important themes in films from this period, including the portrayal . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Laurence Kardish. Text by Ulrich Döge, Thomas Elsaesser, Laurence Kardish, Claudia Lenssen, Eric Rentschler, Werner Sudendorff. Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 216 pgs / 150 duotone. Publication Date: 12/31/2010 List Price: US $39.95

  D.A.P./Schirmer/Mosel Wim Wenders: Once Wim Wenders ranks among the greatest artistic minds of contemporary film: over the past 30 years his films have consistently demonstrated such clarity and sensitivity that they have transcended boundaries of language and nationality, finding a devoted audience worldwide. Wenders brings to this collection of photographic essays the same literary and cinematic talents, the same command of the art of storytelling that we find in his films. In the tradition of Paris, Texas and Faraway, So Close, the texts and pictures in Once weave ambiguous and moving narratives in fits of rhythmic prose and inventive imagery. Prefaced by Wenders' poetic meditations on the metaphysics of photography and film, Once consists of short, autobiographical sketches relating Wenders' experiences--both meaningful and apparently trivial--on his trips across the world scouting locations for his films, as well as photographs taken during these excursions. The resulting book is at once travel diary, photo album, and a . . . . [see book details]

  Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 272 pgs / 225 color. Publication Date: 10/31/2010 List Price: US $29.95

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Frederick Wiseman For over four decades, from his landmark Titicut Follies (1967) to his recent La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009) and forthcoming Boxing Gym (2010), Frederick Wiseman (born 1930) has used a lightweight 16mm camera and portable sound equipment to study human behavior in all its unpredictable manifestations, particularly as it responds to institutional or regimented settings or to democracy at work. Combining epic narrative with intimate portraiture, Wiseman's films constitute a grand panorama of modern life, a kind of modern-day comédie humaine. While he manages to intrude only minimally on the lives of his subjects, his sensitive eye, lawyerly skepticism and storytelling impulses produce imaginative truth. Wiseman has also worked in the theater, directing acclaimed adaptations of Beckett and Pirandello. His stage and film productions La Derničre Lettre (The Last Letter), based on Vassily Grossman's epic novel Life and Fate, starred Catherine Samie, doyenne of the Comédie-Française and a contributor . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Joshua Siegel, Marie-Christine de Navacelle. Text by Andrew Delbanco, David Denby, Pierre Legendre, Errol Morris, Jay Neugeboren, Marie-Christine de Navacelle, Geoffrey O'Brien, Christopher Ricks, Catherine Samie, Joshua Siegel, William T. Vollmann, Frederick Wiseman. Pbk, 9 x 8.25 in. / 160 pgs / 65 duotone. Publication Date: 12/15/2010 List Price: US $39.95

  Dis Voir Wong Kar Wai With films such as As Tears Go By, Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express and Ashes of Time, Kar-Wai has been at the forefront of Hong Kong cinema. On the surface, Kar-Wai follows the rules, presenting the usual fare of car chases, explosions and sex, but in fact his films are much deeper. His characters live and die on the fringe of acceptance and existence, in a nebulous grey area between good and almost evil. Wong-Kai has managed to invent an art that refuses the affluence of the West: by sticking his guns (and knives, fists and chains), this film director has created a bridge between Hong Kong and the rest of the world. . . . . [see book details]

  Screenplay by Wong Kar Wai. Paperback, 8 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 70 b&w. Publication Date: 7/2/1997 List Price: US $40.00

  Dis Voir Atom Egoyan The first book on the extraordinary young Turkish filmmaker, whose work explores the way human relationships are corrupted by the omnipresence of technology. . . . . [see book details]

  Contributions by Patrick de Haas. Screenplay by Atom Egoyan. Text by Paul Virilio. Paperback, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 128 pgs / 14 color / 56 b&w. Publication Date: 2/2/1994 List Price: US $40.00

  D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. The French New Wave The last word on the French New Wave as viewed by one of its most influential commentators, this glorious book examines the golden days of that era, year by year, from 1955 to 1964, through beautifully-reproduced stills, movie posters and contemporary reviews from numerous sources. Jean Douchet, a staff writer on Cahiers du Cinéma during the New Wave's heyday, has written introductions that trace emergent themes in the films of Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer, Marker, Chabrol, Malle, Resnais, Rivette, Varda, Eustache, Astruc and Demy. French New Wave is unsurpassed as a history of the most influential movement in cinema history. "Here is a lavish history of the film movement that spawned the careers of Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and a number of other important contemporary filmmakers. Douchet... considers his subject from almost every possible angle."--Library Journal. "A landmark in film scholarship."--Cineaste . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Jean Douchet. Hardcover, 9 x 11 in. / 384 pgs / 200 color / 300 b&w. Publication Date: 7/2/1999 List Price: US $75.00

  JRP|Ringier Luke Fowler A prominent figure in Glasgow's vibrant art scene, Luke Fowler's cinematic collages break down conventional approaches to biographical and documentary filmmaking. Fowler's films have often been linked to the British Free Cinema of the 1950s, and Fowler likewise avoids didactic voice-over and narrative continuity in favor of impressionistic sound and editing. However, Fowler moves beyond simply referencing the work of his predecessors. Mercurially applying the logic, aesthetics and politics of his subjects—who include the composers/musicians Cornelius Cardew and L. Voag, and the psychologist R.D. Laing—to the film he is making about them, he creates atmospheric, sampled histories that reverberate with the vitality of the people he studies. This is the first major publication on Luke Fowler. It provides a comprehensive overview of his artistic production, with color illustrations, an in-depth discussion between Stuart Comer and the artist, and an essay by Will Bradley. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jones, Beatrix Ruf. Text by Will Bradley. Interview by Stuart Comer. Hbk, 8.75 x 10 in. / 96 pgs / 127 color / 18 b&w. Publication Date: 10/31/2009 List Price: US $35.00

  PictureBox Michel Gondry: You'll Like This Film Because You're In It The Be Kind Rewind Protocol A how-to book from a famed director! This little paperback by Michel Gondry was inspired by his latest film, Be Kind Rewind. The movie stars Jack Black and Mos Def as two friends who enact lo-fi versions of popular Hollywood films such as Ghostbusters or Robocop and offer them for rental. They call this reappropriative and participatory practice "sweding," which is to say, "putting you into the things you like." At New York's Deitch Projects, in February and March of 2008, Gondry emulated the heroic example of his characters, constructing a do-it-yourself film studio in which any visitor could assemble their own film from extant plot summaries and rent the results. His aim: "I intend to prove that people can enjoy their time without being part of the commercial system and serving it... Ultimately, I am hoping to create a network of creativity and communication that is guaranteed to be free . . . . [see book details]

  Paperback, 5 x 7.75 in. / 80 pgs / 30 color / 90 b&w. Publication Date: 11/1/2008 List Price: US $16.95

  Free News Projects Grey Gardens One of the strangest and subtlest films ever made, the Maysles Brothers' 1975 documentary Grey Gardens today boasts as devoted a following as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or Harold and Maude. Shot at Grey Gardens, the dilapidated East Hamptons mansion of "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" Beale, aunt and cousin to Jackie Onassis, this classic of cinema vérité tracks the Beales' eccentric and sequestered lives--which consist mostly of doing nothing, but with a mesmerizing zest and volubility. Little Edie's magical aphorisms ("Raccoons and cats become a little bit boring," she sighs towards the end of the film, "I mean for too long a time…") are gems of unwitting camp, and between her observations, her costumes, the incredibly bizarre mother daughter tensions, the cats, raccoons and the beautiful ruins of Grey Gardens itself, "doing nothing" amounts to everything; indeed, it amounts to a tragicomedy of enormous emotional punch. This eclectic volume . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Sara Maysles, Rebekah Maysles. Introduction by Albert Maysles. Illustrations by Rebekah Maysles, Dan Murphy. Hbk, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 200 pgs / 125 color / 25 b&w / Audio CD. Publication Date: 6/30/2009 List Price: US $45.00

  Walther König, König Derek Jarman: Super 8 The British filmmaker, set designer, painter and author Derek Jarman is well-known to a wide audience, but his earliest films, made in Super-8, are only recently beginning to be retrieved. Made in the early 70s, and already proposing key Jarman themes of sexuality and Englishness, these diaristic shorts predate his first feature Sebastiane (1976) and are reproduced here as stills. . . . . [see book details]

  Foreword by Julia Stoschek, Phillip Fürnkäs. Hbk, 6.75 x 8.5 in. / 124 pgs / 65 color. Publication Date: 3/31/2011 List Price: US $44.95

  Kaya Press Camera Obtrusa: The Action Documentaries of Hara Kazuo By Hara Kazuo An authentic visionary of cinema, Japanese filmmaker Hara Kazuo has spent the past four decades pioneering a stark documentary style that challenged the mores of postwar Japanese society. His works feature dramatic narratives and characters--radicals, outcasts and those on the margins--who struggle against adversity: "I make bitter films. I hate mainstream society," Kazuo has avowed. Camera Obtrusa is the first English-language publication addressing his work. Composed as a straightforward handbook, the volume offers Kazuo's technical notes on his groundbreaking filmmaking. As such, it is invaluable to students and scholars, but it is also peppered with anecdotes from the freewheeling filmmaker's life. Camera Obtrusa also includes the full production notes to Kazuo's controversial and award-winning film, The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (1987), a filmography and a foreword by distinguished Japanese film historian, Abé Markus Nornes. . . . . [see book details]

  Translated by Pat Noonan, Takuo Yasuda. Essay by Abé Mark Nornes. Pbk, 6 x 7.5 in. / 400 pgs / 30 b&w. Publication Date: 8/31/2009 List Price: US $22.95

  JRP|Ringier Harmony Korine: The Trash Humpers Harmony Korine shocked a nation with his first movie script, 1995's Kids, about drug-addled adolescents wallowing in ennui and sex. Arbiters of culture and morality wrung their hands, but two first-time actors in Kids--Chloë Sevigny and Rosario Dawson--found longtime fame in the ensuing years. Korine himself went on to direct several audaciously polarizing feature films. This book, The Trash Humpers, is based on the photographic research for Korine's latest directorial project of the same name. Released on lo-fi VHS and edited in part while blindfolded--or so Korine attests--the 78-minute movie follows a gang of miscreants who roam the streets of Nashville, molesting garbage bins and causing random mayhem. It's an "ode to vandalism and the creativity of the destructive force," Korine has said. "Sometimes there's a real beauty to blowing things up, to smashing and burning. It could be almost as enlightening as the building of an object." . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Harmony Korine. Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 136 pgs / 51 color / 62 b&w. Publication Date: 4/30/2011 List Price: US $39.95

  Exact Change Immemory: A cd-rom by Chris Marker Filmmaker, photographer, writer and traveler Chris Marker has never respected the boundaries between genres. His landmark 1962 film La Jetée is made up almost entirely of stills, its one moving image as thrilling as the Lumičres’ films must have been for their original audiences. Since then, Marker’s films (including the features Sans Soleil, and most recently Level Five) have continued to stretch the definition of the art, merging at times with the essay, political manifesto, personal letter, art installation, even the computer game. In Immemory, Chris Marker has used the format of the CD-Rom to create a multi-layered, multimedia memoir. The reader investigates zones” of travel, war, cinema and poetry, navigating through photographs, film clips, music and text, as if physically exploring Marker’s memory itself. The result is a veritable twenty-first-century Remembrance of Things Past, an exploration of the state of memory in our digital era. With it, Marker has both . . . . [see book details]

  CD-ROM, 5.5 x 7.25 / system requirements:Mac OSX 10.4.11 or later, including 10. Publication Date: 2/1/2009 List Price: US $17.95

  Dis Voir Poetics Of Cinema Chilean filmmaker Raoul Ruiz is the author of some 100 feature-length films, along with numerous plays and multi-media installations. In Poetics of Cinema, Ruiz takes a fresh approach to the major themes haunting our audio-visual civilization: the filmic unconscious, questions of utopia, the inter-contamination of images, the art of the copy, the relations between artistic practices and institutions. Based on a series of lectures given recently at Duke University in North Carolina, Poetics of Cinema develops an acerbically witty critique of the reigning codes of cinematographic narration, principally derived from the dramatic theories set forth by Aristotle's Poetics and characterized by Ruiz as the central-conflict theory.” Ruiz's impressive knowledge of theology, philosophy, literature and the visual arts never outstrips his powerful imagination. Poetics of Cinema not only offers a singularly pertinent analysis of the seventh art, but also shows us an entirely new way of writing and thinking about images. . . . . [see book details]

  By Raul Ruiz. Paperback, 6 x 8.25 in. / 128 pgs. Publication Date: 3/2/1995 List Price: US $25.50

  Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto Julian Schnabel: Art and Film American art megastar Julian Schnabel (born 1951) has made a métier of both painting and film, and while he is equally acclaimed for his achievements in each of these disciplines, the works have often been kept separate in the public eye. Yet Schnabel’s painting has drawn on cinematic imagery for years, often connecting otherwise disparate work via this theme, and his award-winning films have drawn on art both formally and as subject matter—most famously in the 1996 hit Basquiat. Schnabel himself resists categorization: I make art,” he says,“whether it is painting, writing, photography or making a movie.” This survey of Schnabel’s career to date presents the artist’s painterly production, from the 1970s through to the present, juxtaposing his large-scale paintings with his numerous critically acclaimed movies—Basquiat (1996), Before Night Falls (2000), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) and his newest film Miral, which addresses the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The complete scripts . . . . [see book details]

  Introduction by David Moos. Afterword by Julian Schnabel. Pbk, 7 x 10 in. / 448 pgs / 50 color / 80 b&w. Publication Date: 10/31/2010 List Price: US $40.00

  Exhibitions International Michael Snow: Biographie Of The Walking Woman Between 1961 and 1967, artist Michael Snow made numerous photographic works, films, performances, paintings and sculptures based on his cut-out of a walking woman, which he snuck into numerous public locations. The many interactions and encounters of these Walking Women with the public are recorded here. . . . . [see book details]

  Artwork by Michael Snow. Paperback, 9.25 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 400 color. Publication Date: 4/15/2005 List Price: US $45.00

  Hips Road/Tzadik On Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures (and other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc) Reviled, rioted over and banned as pornographic even as it was recognized by many as an unprecedented visionary masterpiece, Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures is one of the most important and influential underground movies ever released in America. J. Hoberman's monograph details the creative making--and legal unmaking--of this extraordinary film, a source of inspiration for artists as disparate as Andy Warhol, Federico Fellini and John Waters. Described by its maker as "a comedy set in a haunted music studio," the story of Flaming Creatures is here augmented with a dossier of personal recollections, relevant documents and remarkable, previously unpublished on-set photographs by Norman Solomon. Expanding on notes originally prepared for the 1997 retrospective on Jack Smith at the American Museum of the Moving Image, the monograph includes further material on his unfinished features Normal Love and No President, as well as shorter film fragments. . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by J. Hoberman. Pbk, 7 x 10 in. / 144 pgs / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 2/28/2011 List Price: US $29.95

  Kaya Press Beat Takeshi vs. Takeshi Kitano Called the world's most original action auteur” by the Village Voice, Takeshi Kitano is already legendary in Japan, where he is known both for his inventive films and for his legendarily caustic alter ego, comedian Beat Takeshi. In the United States, his stylishly noir aesthetic has both influenced and been admired by such directors as Martin Scorcese and Quentin Tarantino. His emotionally intense yet lyrical films have won him worldwide acclaim and honors, including the Grand Prix for Hanabi [Fireworks] at the Venice Film Festival. Now, the long-awaited Beat Takeshi vs. Takeshi Kitano offers a collection of essays on the internationally acclaimed film director by Casio Abe. Despite his impact on contemporary cinema, very little critical work on Kitano's films exists in the United States. Abe's book, originally published in Japan, combines a detailed look at Kitano's filmography with an incisive critique of the consumerist culture which Kitano's films play against. . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Casio Abe. Foreword by Daisuke Miyao. Introduction by Lawrence Chua. Afterword by William Gardner. Paperback, 5.5 x 7 in. / 272 pgs / 40 b&w. Publication Date: 11/2/2004 List Price: US $22.50

  Kerber Zelluloid Cameraless Film Named after the material of film itself, Zelluloid focuses on a particular genre of artistic film in which no camera is used: instead, the image is generated directly by physically manipulating the filmstrip as if it were a canvas or projection screen. The artists and film-makers included here may paint, draw, scratch and collage directly onto celluloid, altering photographic chemicals or manipulating direct lighting of photo-sensitive media. Stan Brakhage's Mothlight (1963) may be the best known instance of cameraless film, and his work looms large over the genre. Housed in a tinted mylar dustjacket with die-cut lettering that itself evokes celluloid, Zelluloid features examples of cameraless works by Brakhage alongside films by Tony Conrad, Cécile Fontaine, Amy Granat, Hy Hirsch, Takahiko Iimura, Norman McLaren, Bärbel Neubauer, Len Lye, Luis Recoder, Jennifer Reeves, Dieter Roth, Schmelzdahin, José Antonio Sistiaga, Harry Smith, Aldo Tambellini and Jennifer West. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Max Hollein, Esther Schlicht. Text by Yann Beauvais, Esther Schlicht, Marc Glöde, Heide Häusler. Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 224 color / 102 b&w. Publication Date: 2/28/2011 List Price: US $40.00

  Greene Naftali/Galerie Daniel Buchholz Tony Conrad: Yellow Movies This first monograph on the legendary artist, filmmaker and musician Tony Conrad documents his seminal Yellow Movie project of the early 1970s. Published to accompany Conrad's recent one-person exhibition at New York's Greene Naftali Gallery and Galerie Bucholz, Cologne, it includes an introductory note by Conrad, a new text by Diedrich Diederichsen and comprehensive documentation of all the Yellow Movies still in existence. Art in America's David Coggins described the project in 2007: "Yellow Movies, a series of works from the early 1970s by pioneering filmmaker Tony Conrad, initially appears to be nothing more than white squares enclosed by black borders painted on large sheets of paper. Yet these casual paintings, roughly the size of old home-movie screens, are formed by latex house paint that slowly yellows over time, creating what are essentially unhurried photographic exposures. Conrad sought to make abstract films that would last a lifetime, and there's a discreet . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Christopher Müller, Jay Sanders. Text by Diedrich Diederichsen, Tony Conrad. Pbk, 7 x 10 in. / 76 pgs / 45 col / 7 b&w. Publication Date: 7/30/2009 List Price: US $35.00

  Walther König, Köln Harun Farocki: Against What Against Whom The first monograph on the prolific German filmmaker, video artist and author Harun Farocki (born 1944), Against What? Against Whom? compiles a complete filmography, beginning with Farocki's early Marxist educational films, Direct Cinema” works and his film-essays, and more recent installations that draw on a variety of found footage. Against What also contains a checklist of installations alongside over 20 essays from a variety of admirers and a new essay by Farocki himself, which combines reflections on his own films with a short history of film-making in West Germany over the past 40 years. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Antje Ehmann, Kodwo Eshun. Foreword by Alex Sainsbury. Text by Harun Farocki, Michael Baute, Jammes Benning, Nicole Brenez, Sabeth Buchmann, Alice Creischer, Diederich Diederichsen, George Didi-Hubermann, et al. Pbk, 7.75 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 300 color / 270 b&w. Publication Date: 3/31/2010 List Price: US $49.95