Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934) needs no introduction. One of the great American artists of her generation, she revolutionised dance and choreography in the 1960s. Yet over the course of two decades – from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s – Rainer also directed seven feature films, each intensely discursive and consistently inviting critical reflection. Radically diverse and impossible to categorise, her films carve out their own space between documentary, fiction, performance, and the avant-garde. For decades, these films have been difficult to access, and when shown, they were often confined to small monitors in large museum settings. Now, newly restored in 4K, they were presented in a retrospective by Terrassen in 2024 – the first of its kind in Denmark. The retrospective culminated in the publication of a new Yvonne Rainer filmography, with contributions from Babette Mangolte, Ursula Andkjær Olsen, Mira Adoumier, Emily Wardill, Emily LaBarge, Amelia Groom, Valérie Massadian, Iman Mohammed, Frida Sandström and Yvonne Rainer herself.
Completed in 1975, this oft-referenced dissertation by Regina Cornwall was revised and enlarged for the current publication. The book presents and interprets the seminal years of Snow’s artistic production in film and photography, in 8 chapters, illustrated with black and white images.
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Filmmaker Chantal Akerman presents A Family in Brussels, a fictional stream-of-consciousness text encompassing multiple subjectivities and laced with autobiographical references.
This is the first English-language publication of the work, which Akerman wrote and first performed as a monologue in Paris and Brussels. The accompanying recording documents the theatrical reading that took place at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York, in October 2001. The listener can hear Akerman’s singular voice as she muses on familial relations, communication, closeness, and distance.
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The films and theoretical works by Trinh T. Minh-Ha blend different forms of writing and narrating; the mutual challenge of the theoretical and the poetical, discursive and “non-discursive” languages tell of Trinh T. Minh-Ha’s resistance against categorizations and limitations, which is carried out right across ethnicities and cultures.
Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Trinh T. Minh-ha, at Secession, Vienna, 7 March– 22 April, 2001.
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From daughter to woman—between the symbolic structures of patriarchy and libidinal-physical dependence on the father—Frauen und Film 48 explores this dual position of female socialization in various contributions.
Teresa de Lauretis proposes alternative readings of the Oedipus myth. Tanja Modleski examines the subtexts of femininity in Hitchcock’s shrill portrayals. Heide Schlüpmann demonstrates, in William Wyler’s film The Heiress , how technical and formal spatial constructions are mediated by the hierarchies of the father-daughter relationship. Renate Lippert takes up the incest motif in Polanski’s Chinatown.
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Known primarily for his experimental cinema and pictorial works, Paul Sharits developed an oeuvre that evolved around two central themes: one, closely related to music and the world of abstraction, the other, within the psychological and emotional arena of the figurative. This complete monograph explores the connections between these two practices, and in addition provides a general introduction to a remarkable body of work. Illustrated throughout, the monograph also includes several essays, texts by Sharits and interviews.
With texts by Yann Beauvais, Bill Brand, Edwin Carels, Rosalind Krauss, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Wieslaw Michalak, Annette Michelson, Józef Robakowski, Keith Sanborn and Paul Sharits.