At the center of this work is a critical engagement with the military training area of Allensteig in Lower Austria, a site marked by forced displace

Indian artist Nalini Malani is considered a pioneer in film, photography, video art and performance, combining modern and contemporary art in her country.

Swedish artist duo Nathalie Djurberg (born 1978) and Hans Berg (born 1978) create installations with objects, music and moving images – dream worlds in which one could lose oneself.

James Welling has attracted attention in almost all areas of photography with his experimental work.

From Drugstore Cowboy to Elephant, Milk and Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant's films have captured the imagination of more than one generation.

Ottinger's Paris: The Paris of the 1960s, marked by political upheaval, was a magnet for artists from all over the world and a pulsating stream of energy between trauma recovery and European utopia.

Through a selection of paintings, sculptures, photographs, films, and architectural works, Peter Marino – One Way celebrates internationally acclaimed architect Peter Marino's connoisseurship of art and his influence on it, exploring the unique interplay of disciplines that inform his oeuvre.

Handeln Bilder? Der faszinierende Gelehrte Aby Warburg hat das so nie gesagt, doch seine Schriften erzählen es.

Out of the Shadows is a publication issued by Courtisane, known for its focus on experimental cinema and artist moving-image practices.

Compiled on the occasion of a Sandra Lahire retrospective at Courtisane festival 2021. This cahier was developed in collaboration with Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola (San Sebastian).

The Rambling Figures of Mani Kaul addresses the cinematic practice of Indian filmmaker Mani Kaul, whose work is associated with experimental and parallel cinema.

On the occasion of the Wang Bing focus program at the Courtisane festival (March 28 - April 1, 2018) and the subsequent program at CINEMATEK

Imprints, Documents, Fictions is the first monograph devoted to the work of filmmaker and artist Alia Syed.

Significantly expanding the scope and functions of the HaFI pamphlet series, Ben Alper and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa present visual unknowns and forgotten gestures from the defunct archives of American mid-century news photography.

Marie José Burki’s work centres on the analysis of perception, narrative construction, and the instability of visual meaning.

Schon um 1900 beschrieben Besucher früher Filmvorführungen das Flackern auf der Leinwand als «Tanz der Bilder». Die Idee,

Wie in keinem anderen Genre ist die Schrift im Film in Bewegung geraten: Ob als Kunst-, Spiel- und Werbefilm oder Musikvideo,

The very first book on the subject of costume illustration for the movies, Hollywood Sketchbook, contains over 500

Mono.Kultur is an interview-based cultural magazine established in the early 2000s, focusing on art, music, film, design, and visual culture.

Als führender Filmemacher seiner Generation wurde Derek Jarman bezeichnet. Mit seinen Experimenten mit Licht, Farbe

Ce volume analyse. à travers la vision personnelle de l'auteur. l'histoire du cinéma et de la photographie futuristes, en prenant en considération

Serial Grey is the publication for Jeff Weber‘s exhibition at Carré d‘Art, Nîmes. The four chapters of the book correspond to the

The accompanying publication to Shadow Citizens explores the radical film practice of Želimir Žilnik at the intersection of art, politics, and

Carolee Schneemann: Kinetische Malerei widmet sich einem zentralen, lange unterschätzten Aspekt im Werk von Carolee Schneemann:

Carib’s Leap / Western Deep (2002) is a key early work by Steve McQueen, comprising two conceptually linked film projects that address history, labor,

In Soft Zeros, Mimi Ọnụọha examines the unreliability of archives and the instability of knowledge, exploring how absence and silence – shaped by algorithmic bias,

Roman Signer (*1938) schlägt wie wenig andere Gegenwartskünstler sowohl die Kunstinsider wie das breite Publikum in seinen Bann.

John Smith’s films unfold at the intersection of conceptual art, structural film, and documentary practice, drawing consistently on his own life and immediate surroundings.

Experiment Expressionism – Schiele Meets Nosferatu is an expansive, cross-genre exhibition dedicated to the many facets of Expressionism.

This volume provides a comprehensive insight into the singular oeuvre of Bas Jan Ader, a conceptual artist whose work—marked by a compelling synthesis of vulnerability, romanticism, and existential inquiry—has profoundly influenced generations of artists.

Lebanese artist Walid Raad is one of the leading artists of his generation and an influential voice in art from the Middle East.

Die Autorin, Filmemacherin und Psychoanalytikerin Elisabeth Schlebrügge erschließt – wie für ein Glossar –

Spielerisch leicht und humorvoll setzt sich Claus Richter mit der Bildwelt des Science-Fiction-Films auseinander.

Karimah Ashadu’s film Plateau (2021–2022) presents a profound and layered exploration of artisanal tin mining in Nigeria’s Plateau State.

The moving image has irrevocably redefined our experience and construction of history.

“Analog Film Manifestos” brings together eight passionate, very personal and therefore stylistically diverse confessions to analog film by Austrian filmmakers:

This volume presents a focused examination of two short film works: Sink, a segment from Michael Snow’s expansive investigation into sound-image relations,

Marcel Odenbach's work is a rich and multifaceted exploration of contemporary art, spanning over four decades of artistic practice.

The Case of Lena Smith stands as one of the legendary lost films in cinema history—only a single fragment has survived.

This booklet describes our entry for the competition to design the public spaces surrounding the Humboldt-Forum in Berlin.

Five films were created between 2013 and 2019, without official invitations, in the most prestigious exhibition venues in Austria: Vienna Secession, mumok kino, the former Generali Foundation, the Austrian Film Museum, and the Austrian Pavilion in Venice.

An unprecedented look into the personal and creative life of the visionary auteur David Lynch, through his own words and those of his closest colleagues, friends, and family

In her film-poems artist and filmmaker Ana Vaz collages images and sounds that revolve around violence and repression, the impact of ecological ruin and the continued colonization of the earth.

This publication is the late outcome of a small symposium that took place in 2013 at the subject area time and space arts at the Academy of Fine Arts at Uniarts Helsinki. It presented research and analysis of conceptual traces in Godard’s oeuvre and its relation to contemporary art practices. Beyond the invited contributors from this symposium, the project expanded into a larger collection of writings by contemporary artists and curators on Godardian references, influences and (re-)discoveries, centering around a particular phenomenon

The Secret Agent is Douglas’s adaption of the 1907 political novel of the same title by Joseph Conrad. Set in London in 1886, the book recounts an anarchist’s failed plot to bomb the Greenwich Observatory and is considered

A Faggot is a Unit by Berlin-based artist, filmmaker, and writer Padraig Robinson, brings together two original screenplays for yet-realized video works by Robinson along with a collection of research material presented as a retrograde calendar. The screenplays, / Imagine Prompt: Catfish Monogamy and The Jealousy of Sagittarius A*, both deal with

What is the work of the African creative intellectual? Whether branded as ‘native’ by Fanon or ‘negro’ by Cruse, the vocation and commitment of Africa’s creative intellectuals and their mode of ‘self-writing’ has been under examination for much of the post-colonial era. Bekolo’s new text is a valuable addition to this important library.

This publication presents and contextualizes the current Austrian contribution to the most important of all international art exhibitions. In his work, Mathias Poledna deals with connections between art and entertainment culture, modernism in architecture and design, the language of cinema and the history of exhibiting. His works are characterized by a rigorous examination of the medium of film and the function of images in the present and past.

HaFI 018 reprints a document containing the script of Skip Norman’s film On Africa (1970). Norman, born in Baltimore in 1933, had left the U.S. in the early 1960s to study German, theater, and medicine in Göttingen. In 1966 he moved to Berlin to join the newly founded German Film and Television Academy (DFFB). By 1969, he had made the films Riffi (1966), Blues People (1968), Cultural Nationalism (1969) and the graduation film Strange Fruit (1969).

Der situationistische Philosoph und Filmemacher Guy Debord (1931–1994) folgte in seinen Filmen stets dem Vorsatz, nichts zu tun, was man in Filmen machte, und alles zu tun, was man dort nicht machte. Die Filme, die er zwischen 1952 und 1978 schuf, spiegeln diesen Plan auf einzigartige Weise wider. Seine Drehbücher und Szenarien sind nicht weniger radikal als diese selbst. Erstmals werden die Texte aller Filme

The catalog was developed in close collaboration with the artist. It examines Atkins' practice in the context of contemporary art, literature and digital representation, and explores how the artist uses the displacement of language and script as well as music, voice and sound. Through videos, texts and drawings, the artist develops a multi-layered and deeply figurative discourse. The impossibility of an adequate representation of the physical, especially the corporeal - from computer-generated visual vocabulary to the most hackneyed poetry - is

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This volume surveys the acclaimed work of Dara Friedman, exploring her innovative approach to 16mm film and video art. The book features stills from numerous works spanning more than 20 years of creative production, as well as essays on Friedman’s oeuvre and an extended interview with the artist. Friedman is known for works

The eleventh issue of the series Pleased to Meet You is devoted to Derek Jarman (1942-1994), a major figure in British cinema during the 1970s and 80s as well as a highly versatile artist, painter, draughtsman, costume and set designer, author and gardener. Before his premature death in 1994 of an AIDS-related illness,

he first monograph by the Taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-jen (*1960 Taoyuan, Taiwan) appears in the Secession's publication series. The book, designed applying various shades of black, includes the artist’s introduction to his recently completed film Worn Away (2022–23), which is presented at the Secession, sketches and handwritten notes, as well as a selection of video stills. In his essay, Jon Solomon, professor of sinology in Lyon and Paris and a proven expert on the work of Chen Chieh-jen, provides an interesting background analysis to the new film, among other things. Each book contains a paper bookmark printed with the image of a disposable RFID wristband, which plays a key role in the film. The artist has also hand-stamped the Chinese film title on each bookmark.

On subjects including an interrogation on cinephilia and gender, surveillance, infant observation during the pandemic and the screen as psychic portal, Beirut on film, devotional labour, prisons during lockdown, the notion of solidarity, reproduction and futurity, and much more... Roundtables about Sarah Maldoror; hands and fate, work, pleasure, touch, and surveillance; early women's travel films…

They Will Say I Killed Them is the result of a one-year research marked by visits to public film archives, private foundations, and meetings with important testimonies of Italian cinema. The aim was to conduct an in-depth investigation on those Italian movies—from the 1950s to the 80s—that due to censorship have been left on the shelf in the form of a screenplay, or filed away

In 1977 Ingemo Engström and Gerhard Theuring embark on a journey through France. They trace the escape route of the German emigration in France 1940/41, documenting the places, talking to witnesses, relating the temporal layers. The film ESCAPE ROUTE TO MARSEILLES that was the result of this journey, carries the subtitle “Images from a working journal (1977) on the novel Transit (1941) by Anna Seghers”. Produced by the WDR, it premiered in Mannheim and had success at international festivals. Accompanying the film, Theuring and Engström conceived an issue of the journal Filmkritik that extends the movie, comments upon it, provides an insight into the research and production process. On the occasion of its theatrical release in Great Britain, Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media published the comprehensive essay by Engström and Theuring in English translation. HaFI 009 republishes the essay from Filmkritik and its English translation in facsimile. In addition to the essay by Theuring / Engström, the booklet contains two texts by Paul Willemen and Steve Neale, who contextualized the film in the UK for Framework, as well as a commentary by the Harun Farocki

Intervention by the artists: Karrabing Film Collective has created a limited-edition series of four cards for the publication, one of which is enclosed with each copy. The faces of the cards show image-text collages in Karrabing’s characteristic technique of layering and

Conceived by artist and filmmaker Margaret Salmon, this publication is a tribute to a group of innovative sister cinematographas and to the analogue motion picture camera. The book pairs an enquiry into women’s filmmaking practice with a comprehensive survey of experimental analogue technique across generations.

Sarah Dobai’s The Donkey Field weaves a link between a racist attack in on a young boy and the story of the persecution of Marie and Balthazar in the acclaimed film Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966).