CROSSROADS 2018 Festival Tote Bag
GET IT NOW! This limited-edition commemorative tote bag, designed by filmmaker and animator Jodie Mack, marks the ninth iteration of Cinematheque’s CROSSROADS festival, celebrating recent artist-made...
View ArticleSKY HOPINKA: AROUND THE EDGE OF ENCIRCLING LAKE
Sky Hopinka’s film work scrutinizes the layered structure of identity in relation to homeland, landscape and language. Like puzzles, his films are constructed with fragmented and superimposed images....
View ArticlePEGGY AHWESH: THE FILMS OF DORIS WISHMAN
Some thirty years ago, the artist Peggy Ahwesh began to cultivate a fascination with the films of Doris Wishman, the prolific director behind grindhouse gems like Nude on the Moon (1961), Bad Girls Go...
View ArticleISIDORE ISOU: TREATISE ON VENOM AND ETERNITY
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Film. Jewish Studies. Edited by Julian Kabza. Translated by Ian Thompson, Anna O’Meara, Julian Kabza, Nadege LeJeune, and Charles Penwarden. Introduction by Adrian Martin....
View ArticleJONATHAN SCHWARTZ: TO LIGHT, TO LOVE, TO TIME
A few years ago Jonathan Schwartz gave one of his filmmaking classes the theme: On being human. The human, for Jonathan, is hardly exclusive. It embraces the animal in (and outside of) us. It includes...
View ArticleCROSSROADS 2019 Festival Tote Bag
GET IT NOW! This limited-edition commemorative tote bag, designed by video artist Peter Burr, marks the tenth anniversary of Cinematheque’s CROSSROADS festival, celebrating recent artist-made film,...
View ArticleCraig Baldwin: A Bag of Baldwin
CONTENTS A BAG OF BALDWiN created by MiDNIiTES FOR MANiACS Created on the occasion of Craig Baldwin’s epic performance/lecture Orphan Morphin’ at Oakland’s Pro Arts Gallery (April 21, 2017) as part of...
View ArticleNathaniel Dorsky: A Dab of Dorsky
A DAB OF DORSKY created by MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS Created on the occasion of Nathaniel Dorsky‘s sublime presentation on his Arboretum Cycle (2017) at Pacific Film Archive on February 15, 2019, the...
View ArticleERIKA BALSOM: AN OCEANIC FEELING: CINEMA AND THE SEA
What is oceanic feeling? For Sigmund Freud, it is the sensation of an unbreakable bond between oneself and the outside world. Rather than an assertion of mastery over the world as a standing reserve to...
View ArticleStephanie Barber: Night Moves
Poetry. Night Moves (2013) by Stephanie Barber is a collection of thoughts and conversations about Bob Seger’s classic song of the same name, all culled from YouTube. Poignant, disturbing and incisive,...
View ArticleStephanie Barber: Status Update (Vol. 1)
Stephanie Barber has been posting haiku to her Facebook page every day since 2010. Status Update Volume I is a catalog of that first year, at once quotidian and monumental. Archived in the endless...
View ArticleMythology for the Soul: The Collected Poems of Storm De Hirsch
Storm De Hirsch began publishing poetry and art criticism in American magazines in the 1950s. Her poetry was on the periphery of the East Coast Beat movement, engaging punctuative declarations,...
View ArticleDanny Plotnick: Super 8: An Illustrated History
Danny Plotnick: Super 8: An Illustrated History ***all copies signed by the author!*** Super 8: An Illustrated History is a coffee table art book showcasing the history of Super-8 filmmaking. In...
View ArticleCarolee Schneemann: Uncollected Texts
Carolee Schneemann: Uncollected Texts Author: Carolee Schneemann Editor: Branden W. Joseph Uncollected Texts draws together a number of Carolee Schneemann’s earliest writings—many exceedingly rare and...
View ArticleMichael Snow: Cover to Cover
Michael Snow: Cover to Cover For years an out-of-print rarity, Michael Snow’s classic artist book Cover to Cover is available once again, in a facsimile edition from Light Industry and Primary...
View ArticleIntroducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective
Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective Editor: Cathleen Chaffee Edited with text by Cathleen Chaffee. Includes texts by Rachel Adams, Vera Alemani, Constance DeJong, Diedrich Diederichsen, Anthony...
View ArticleAbigail Child: This Is Called Moving
Abigail Child: This Is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film As the writer, director, producer, and cinematographer of over 30 films, videos, and shorts, Abigail Child has been recognized as a...
View ArticleSky Hopinka: Perfidia
Sky Hopinka: Perfidia Author: Sky Hopinka Editor: Julie Niemi Foreword by Lauren Cornell Edited by Julie Niemi. Foreword by Lauren Cornell. Sky Hopinka’s Perfidia moves within the textured landscape of...
View ArticleNathaniel Dorsky: The Arboretum Aphorisms
Nathaniel Dorsky: The Arboretum Aphorisms Collected & Sequenced by Lisa McCarty Long a figure of interest to many contemporary American poets, Nathaniel Dorsky has been making and exhibiting...
View ArticleLynne Sachs: Year to Year Poems
Lynne Sachs: Year to Year Poems Author: Lynne Sachs Poetry. Film. When filmmaker Lynne Sachs turned fifty, she dedicated herself to writing a poem for every year of her life, so far. Each of the fifty...
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