New Film Books from Wallflower Press |
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Catherine Elwes
This volume traces the lineage of moving-image installation through architecture, painting, sculpture, performance, expanded cinema, film history, and countercultural film and video from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Critic, curator, and practitioner who was a pioneer of British video and feminist art politics in the late 1970s, Elwes writes engagingly of her encounters with works by Anthony McCall, Gillian Wearing, David Hall, and Janet Cardiff, and her narrative is informed by exchanges with other practitioners. While the book addresses the key formal, theoretical, and historical parameters of moving-image installation, it ends with a question: "What's in it for the artist?" $26.00 $18.20 | Paperback | 216 pages | 20 b&w illus | £18.00 |
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 | | | Urban Change in Contemporary Non-Fiction Film
Iván Villarmea Álvarez
Álvarez explores the way the city has been depicted by nonfiction filmmakers since the late 1970s, paying particular attention to three aesthetic tendencies: documentary landscaping, urban self-portraits, and metafilmic strategies.
Through formal analysis of 15 works from 6 countries, Álvarez investigates how the rise of subjectivity has helped to develop a gaze that is closer to citizens than to the institutions and corporations responsible for recent major transformations. He reveals the extent to which cinema has become an agent of urban change, in which certain films not only challenge the most controversial policies of late capitalism but also are able to produce spatiality.
$26.00 $18.20 | Paperback | 240 pages | 24 b&w illus. | £18.00 |
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| | | The Politics of Experimental Documentary
Paolo Magagnoli
Magagnoli discusses the experimental documentary projects of some of the most significant artists working in the world today: Hito Steyerl, Joachim Koester, Tacita Dean, Matthew Buckingham, Zoe Leonard, Jean-Luc Moulène, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead, and Anri Sala.
Their films, videos, and photographic series address failed utopian experiments and counter-hegemonic social practices.
Magagnoli illustrates the political significance of these artistic practices and critically contributes to the debate on the conditions of utopian thinking in late-capitalist society, arguing that contemporary artists' interest in the past is the result of a shift within the temporal organization of the utopian imagination from its futuristic pole toward remembrance.
$26.00 $18.20 | Paperback | 224 pages | 24 b&w | £18.00
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