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  • Breath, rhythm, silence, resonance: listening beyond seeing in the films of Trinh T. Minh-­ha

    In the context of the Artist in focus Trinh T. Minh-ha program at Courtisane festival 2023, we invited musician, author and curator David Toop to reflect on the sound work in her films. The resulting publication, titled Breath, rhythm, silence, resonance: listening beyond seeing in the films of Trinh T. Minh­ha, is the first publication in the Echoes of Dissent series, devoted to the politics of the soundtrack.

    Published by Courtisane, in the context of the project Echoes of Dissent @ KASK & CONSERVATORIUM School of Arts Gent.

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  • Alia Syed: Imprints, Documents, Fictions

    Published by Courtisane festival in collaboration with Open City Documentary Festival, Alia Syed: Imprints, Documents, Fictions (ed. ) is the first monograph to be devoted to Syed’s work and features new essays by Jemma Desai, Inga Fraser, Peter Gidal, Rahila Haque, Salima Hashmi, Anjana Janardhan, Ruth Noack and Henrietta Williams, as well as writing by Syed herself.

    Launched at Courtisane festival 2023.

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  • Figures of Absence. The Films of Dore O.

    Aiming at a long-overdue reappraisal of Dore O.’s avant-garde film practice, this publication honors the work and legacy of Dore O., one of Germany’s most pioneering experimental filmmakers.

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  • Helga Fanderl - Konstellationen Super 8

    With numerous images, texts and a catalogue raisonné, this book gives insight into the aesthetic specificity and complexity of Helga Fanderl’s Super 8 work, conveying its origins and development, process and materiality, and form and poetic nature. Her films, varying programmes and site-specific projections evoke the permanence of the impermanent. Constellations of the artist’s short texts, as well as those of different authors and of film images, photographs and documents represent and reflect the many facets of her work.

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  • Robert Cahen - Entrevoir

    Robert Cahen is a video artist, director, composer by training. A major figure in the field of video creation, coming from the frontiers between the arts, he is a pioneer in the use of electronic instruments. Robert Cahen's work is recognizable by his way of dealing with slow motion, his way of exploring sound in relation to image to build his poetic universe.

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  • Seeking Brakhage

    Fred Camper has written about the films of Stan Brakhage for over five decades. Collected here for the first time in a single volume, his writing forms a body of criticism commensurate with the importance of Brakhage's films to late 20th century American art.

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  • Strange Codes

    Arthur Lipsett’s Strange Codes is the legendary found-footage filmmaker’s first and only independent film, made after his departure from the National Film Board of Canada. In a rented house in Toronto, Lipsett stages a series of mysterious rituals, appearing onscreen in the guise of various characters, among them, an archeologist, a soldier, a scientist, a magician, and the Monkey King of the Peking opera.

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  • Palace of Pleasure

    A long-neglected classic of Canadian experimental cinema, a triumph of erotic art, a film about which Gene Youngblood once wrote, “See it and you’ll see a window on the future: a Joyce-Burroughs assemblage of bold, poetic surreal visions of physical love in every conceivable form.

    In 1967, John Hofsess released The Palace of Pleasure, a dual-screen therapeutic exploration of the erotic imagination. Intended as a trilogy, only the first two sequences were completed.

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  • Everything Everywhere Again Alive

    Everything Everywhere Again Alive is a landmark work of Canadian underground cinema, a film diary with mystic and symbolic overtones. In the early 1970s, Toronto filmmaker Keith Lock moved to Buck Lake, where members of the Toronto art scene were undertaking an experiment in communal living. Lock filmed the achievements and daily rituals of his fellow communards, his camera bearing witness as a community assembled and dispersed.

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  • Le Petit Boris illustré - Boris Lehman par lui-même

    Pour la première fois, un livre qui cerne au plus près la figure presque légendaire du cinéaste belge Boris Lehman.

    Ici, aucune analyse de films, aucune critique. Il s’agit plutôt d’un livre d’artiste, portrait de Boris par lui-même, qui se présente sous forme de fragments savamment agencés, mêlant dessins, photos, poèmes et documents divers.

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