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Cinematic city
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Innovative and thought-provoking volume offering a wealth of insights into the cityscape, screenscape and the interconnections between the two. Illustrated throughout with movie stills, a diverse selection of film genres, cities and historical periods are examined by leading names in the field.
Cinematic city
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Innovative and thought-provoking volume offering a wealth of insights into the cityscape, screenscape and the interconnections between the two. Illustrated throughout with movie stills, a diverse selection of film genres, cities and historical periods are examined by leading names in the field.
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Architecture and Film, Set Design
Claude Jutra
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Cette biographie du cinéaste Québecois Claude Jutra est le récit de la vie d'un homme complexe. C'est aussi une réévaluation critique de l'ouvre du cinéaste et un portrait de la venue au monde du cinéma québécois.
Claude Jutra
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Cette biographie du cinéaste Québecois Claude Jutra est le récit de la vie d'un homme complexe. C'est aussi une réévaluation critique de l'ouvre du cinéaste et un portrait de la venue au monde du cinéma québécois.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the surprisingly varied ways movies were shown, ranging from Edison's 1896 projections to the 1968 Cinerama premiere of Stanley(...)
When movies were theater: architecture, exhibition, and the evolution of American film
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There was a time when seeing a movie meant more than seeing a film. The theater itself shaped the very perception of events on screen. This multilayered history tells the story of American film through the evolution of theater architecture and the surprisingly varied ways movies were shown, ranging from Edison's 1896 projections to the 1968 Cinerama premiere of Stanley Kubrick's 2001. William Paul matches distinct architectural forms to movie styles, showing how cinema's roots in theater influenced business practices, exhibition strategies, and film technologies.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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In exploring how artificial darkness shaped modern art, film, and media, Noam M. Elcott addresses seminal and obscure works alongside their sites of production—such as photography darkrooms, film studios, and laboratories—and their sites of reception, including theaters, cinemas, and exhibitions. He argues that artists, scientists, and entertainers like Étienne-Jules(...)
Artificial darkness: an obscure history of modern art and media
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In exploring how artificial darkness shaped modern art, film, and media, Noam M. Elcott addresses seminal and obscure works alongside their sites of production—such as photography darkrooms, film studios, and laboratories—and their sites of reception, including theaters, cinemas, and exhibitions. He argues that artists, scientists, and entertainers like Étienne-Jules Marey, Richard Wagner, Georges Méliès, and Oskar Schlemmer revolutionized not only images but also everything surrounding them: the screen, the darkness, and the experience of bodies and space.
Dance in Herland
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''Dance in Herland'' surveys artist Luka Yuanyuan Yang’s cinematic oeuvre, including her feature-length production Chinatown Cha-Cha and five short films centered on diasporic Chinese communities. The book picks up where the films end, serving as both a reflection and a complement, while also creating a new narrative. Over nearly a year of editing, we felt like revisiting(...)
Dance in Herland
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''Dance in Herland'' surveys artist Luka Yuanyuan Yang’s cinematic oeuvre, including her feature-length production Chinatown Cha-Cha and five short films centered on diasporic Chinese communities. The book picks up where the films end, serving as both a reflection and a complement, while also creating a new narrative. Over nearly a year of editing, we felt like revisiting 20th-century San Francisco and Cuba, tracing history through the neons of Chinatown and the echoes of Cantonese opera. For the dancers and performers documented in this book, their bodies act as living archives; their memories and unspoken emotions may be concealed in their steps, fingertips, and gazes.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Founded in 2018, COUSIN Collective is dedicated to promoting Indigenous artists working with the moving image. ''Temporal Territories'' is the collective’s critical anthology on Indigenous experimental cinema, bringing together new works, reprints of key writings, theoretical interventions, artist portfolios, intergenerational dialogues and manifestos. With topics ranging(...)
Temporal territories: An anthology on indigenous experimental cinema
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Founded in 2018, COUSIN Collective is dedicated to promoting Indigenous artists working with the moving image. ''Temporal Territories'' is the collective’s critical anthology on Indigenous experimental cinema, bringing together new works, reprints of key writings, theoretical interventions, artist portfolios, intergenerational dialogues and manifestos. With topics ranging from science fiction to found-footage filmmaking to the strange case of the DeMille Indians, the volume surveys a varied and vital body of work, and suggests new forms still to come.
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''Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: An Anthology'' explores the radical practice of one of today's most prolific and politically charged film collectives. Emerging in 2012, ''Colectivo Los Ingrávidos'' challenges cinematic conventions through a decolonial lens, making films that dissolve the boundaries between ritual and resistance, myth and history, the personal and the(...)
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July 2025
Colectivo los ingravidos: An anthology 2012-2024
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''Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: An Anthology'' explores the radical practice of one of today's most prolific and politically charged film collectives. Emerging in 2012, ''Colectivo Los Ingrávidos'' challenges cinematic conventions through a decolonial lens, making films that dissolve the boundaries between ritual and resistance, myth and history, the personal and the collective. This publication gathers ''Los Ingrávidos''' foundational texts - including their ''Manifesto and Thesis on the Audiovisual'' - alongside newly comissioned essays and critical reflections by thinkers in experimental and decolonial cinema. By presenting the collective's writings in their voice while broadening its reach.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Le cinéma et le design le montrent : l'objet impossible peut exister, de multiples manières. Il peut être une pure potentialité, comme un sabre laser (dans Star Wars, ou ailleurs), ou un projet prospectif rattrapé par la réalité (le frigo connecté de Total Recall) ; un moyen de générer de l'énergie ou de voyager dans le temps ; il peut être une caméra, une voiture(...)
Architecture and Film, Set Design
September 2025
L'encyclopédie des objets impossibles
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Le cinéma et le design le montrent : l'objet impossible peut exister, de multiples manières. Il peut être une pure potentialité, comme un sabre laser (dans Star Wars, ou ailleurs), ou un projet prospectif rattrapé par la réalité (le frigo connecté de Total Recall) ; un moyen de générer de l'énergie ou de voyager dans le temps ; il peut être une caméra, une voiture réincarnée, un faux livre, un miroir magique ou un plumbus. De tous ces objets, il est question dans « L'Encyclopédie des Objets Impossibles », qui se veut un inventaire critique d'objets de cinéma et de ciné-objets du quotidien, destiné à ouvrir le champ des possibles en termes de représentation et, plus encore, de conception. « L'Encyclopédie des Objets Impossibles » rassemble des articles de recherches, analytiques, critiques, prospectifs, des recueils de notices encyclopédiques, des essais de forme plus libre, allant du cataloguage systématique aux écrits poétiques.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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Thirty-three richly suggestive stories by Antonioni, that range in length from a single paragraph to several pages. Not stories in the usual sense, these are instead a series of evocative sketches or “narrative nuclei,” each the genesis for a possible future film. Although he ultimately didn’t develop most of these ideas further, encountering them now provides a unique(...)
Architecture and Film, Set Design
December 2025
That bowling alley on the Tiber
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Thirty-three richly suggestive stories by Antonioni, that range in length from a single paragraph to several pages. Not stories in the usual sense, these are instead a series of evocative sketches or “narrative nuclei,” each the genesis for a possible future film. Although he ultimately didn’t develop most of these ideas further, encountering them now provides a unique glimpse into Antonioni’s mind and cinematic point of view.
Architecture and Film, Set Design
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This publication focuses on a lecture given by Harun Farocki in March 1994 at the "Cine City: Film and Perceptions of Urban Space, 1895–1995" conference at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles. Here, Farocki wove an associative web of thoughts on the relationship between film, architecture, material worlds, political economy, dwelling,(...)
Harun Farocki : Building and filming
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This publication focuses on a lecture given by Harun Farocki in March 1994 at the "Cine City: Film and Perceptions of Urban Space, 1895–1995" conference at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles. Here, Farocki wove an associative web of thoughts on the relationship between film, architecture, material worlds, political economy, dwelling, sexuality, space, and time. Although an interest in buildings, spatial relationships, and power relations, as well as the interpenetration of technical media and urban space, was central to Farocki's practice, this is one of the few explicit explorations of the relationship between architecture and cinema. The (German and English) manuscripts of Farocki's lecture are supplemented by press material from the Getty Center's extensive film and lecture series. In their postface, the editors provide elements of interpretation and contextualization with regard to Farocki's previous and subsequent projects on spatiality and architecture.
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