Tessa Laird is an artist, writer, and senior lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Her books include a fictocritical exploration of color, A Rainbow Reader, and a cultural history of bats, Bat, in Reaktion Books’s celebrated Animal series.

"Cinemal is a sparkling, engaging book, a virtuosic and thrilling interleaving of experimental cinema, philosophies of the more-than-human, and stories of animal encounters. Celebrating the variety and inventiveness of cinematic experimentation, Tessa Laird calls for us to remake our human senses in order to align better with the needs of the planet."-Laura U. Marks, author of The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos   "Original, erudite, and playful all in one, Cinemal is not only a joy to read but estranges the very idea of cinema, and therefore of life, in ways wondrous and wise."-Michael Taussig, Columbia University

• Contents Introduction: Hatching the Cinemal 1. Color Is an Animal 2. Speeds and Slownesses 3. Scratch and Sniff: Animal Umwelten 4. The Cry: Insides on the Outside 5. The Liveliness of All Things (Including the Dead) Conclusion: Dappling in the Metacinema of the Universe Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Tessa Laird is an artist, writer, and senior lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Her books include a fictocritical exploration of color, A Rainbow Reader, and a cultural history of bats, Bat, in Reaktion Books’s celebrated Animal series.

"Cinemal is a sparkling, engaging book, a virtuosic and thrilling interleaving of experimental cinema, philosophies of the more-than-human, and stories of animal encounters. Celebrating the variety and inventiveness of cinematic experimentation, Tessa Laird calls for us to remake our human senses in order to align better with the needs of the planet."-Laura U. Marks, author of The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos   "Original, erudite, and playful all in one, Cinemal is not only a joy to read but estranges the very idea of cinema, and therefore of life, in ways wondrous and wise."-Michael Taussig, Columbia University

• Contents Introduction: Hatching the Cinemal 1. Color Is an Animal 2. Speeds and Slownesses 3. Scratch and Sniff: Animal Umwelten 4. The Cry: Insides on the Outside 5. The Liveliness of All Things (Including the Dead) Conclusion: Dappling in the Metacinema of the Universe Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Tessa Laird is an artist, writer, and senior lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Her books include a fictocritical exploration of color, A Rainbow Reader, and a cultural history of bats, Bat, in Reaktion Books’s celebrated Animal series.

"Cinemal is a sparkling, engaging book, a virtuosic and thrilling interleaving of experimental cinema, philosophies of the more-than-human, and stories of animal encounters. Celebrating the variety and inventiveness of cinematic experimentation, Tessa Laird calls for us to remake our human senses in order to align better with the needs of the planet."-Laura U. Marks, author of The Fold: From Your Body to the Cosmos   "Original, erudite, and playful all in one, Cinemal is not only a joy to read but estranges the very idea of cinema, and therefore of life, in ways wondrous and wise."-Michael Taussig, Columbia University

• Contents Introduction: Hatching the Cinemal 1. Color Is an Animal 2. Speeds and Slownesses 3. Scratch and Sniff: Animal Umwelten 4. The Cry: Insides on the Outside 5. The Liveliness of All Things (Including the Dead) Conclusion: Dappling in the Metacinema of the Universe Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index