Erika Balsom is a scholar and critic based in London, working on cinema, art, and their intersection. She is Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London and holds a PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University.Featured artists include: John Akomfrah, Ed Atkins, Rosa Barba, Matthew Barney, Meriem Bennani, Cao Fei, Alex Da Corte, Stan Douglas, Forensic Architecture, Gabrielle Goliath, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Sky Hopinka, Arthur Jafa, William Kentridge, Ragnar Kjartansson, Paul Pfeiffer, Laure Prouvost, Pipilotti Rist, Mika Rottenberg, Wael Shawky, Hito Steyerl, Martine Syms, Tourmaline, Ryan Trecartin, Wu Tsang, and Yang FudongAdvisors include: Çelenk Bafra, Chris Bayley, Tom Colley, Stuart Comer, Lauren Cornell, Jarrett Earnest, Reem Fadda, Silvia Franceschini, John G. Hanhardt, Yuko Hasegawa, Christelle Havranek, Kim Hong-hee, Barbara London, Simon Njami, Pablo José Ramírez, Tina Rivers Ryan, Akili Tommasino, Christine Van Assche, Jun-Jieh Wang, Emily Watlington, Catherine Wood, and X Zhu-Nowell

‘A tour de force of text and graphics.’ – NY Journal of Books‘This visual compendium…deftly tackles a difficult task: robustly interrogating moving-image art across its static pages.’ – Observer, Best Art Books of 2025

Erika Balsom is a scholar and critic based in London, working on cinema, art, and their intersection. She is Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London and holds a PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University.Featured artists include: John Akomfrah, Ed Atkins, Rosa Barba, Matthew Barney, Meriem Bennani, Cao Fei, Alex Da Corte, Stan Douglas, Forensic Architecture, Gabrielle Goliath, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Sky Hopinka, Arthur Jafa, William Kentridge, Ragnar Kjartansson, Paul Pfeiffer, Laure Prouvost, Pipilotti Rist, Mika Rottenberg, Wael Shawky, Hito Steyerl, Martine Syms, Tourmaline, Ryan Trecartin, Wu Tsang, and Yang FudongAdvisors include: Çelenk Bafra, Chris Bayley, Tom Colley, Stuart Comer, Lauren Cornell, Jarrett Earnest, Reem Fadda, Silvia Franceschini, John G. Hanhardt, Yuko Hasegawa, Christelle Havranek, Kim Hong-hee, Barbara London, Simon Njami, Pablo José Ramírez, Tina Rivers Ryan, Akili Tommasino, Christine Van Assche, Jun-Jieh Wang, Emily Watlington, Catherine Wood, and X Zhu-Nowell

‘A tour de force of text and graphics.’ – NY Journal of Books‘This visual compendium…deftly tackles a difficult task: robustly interrogating moving-image art across its static pages.’ – Observer, Best Art Books of 2025

Erika Balsom is a scholar and critic based in London, working on cinema, art, and their intersection. She is Reader in Film Studies at King’s College London and holds a PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University.Featured artists include: John Akomfrah, Ed Atkins, Rosa Barba, Matthew Barney, Meriem Bennani, Cao Fei, Alex Da Corte, Stan Douglas, Forensic Architecture, Gabrielle Goliath, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Sky Hopinka, Arthur Jafa, William Kentridge, Ragnar Kjartansson, Paul Pfeiffer, Laure Prouvost, Pipilotti Rist, Mika Rottenberg, Wael Shawky, Hito Steyerl, Martine Syms, Tourmaline, Ryan Trecartin, Wu Tsang, and Yang FudongAdvisors include: Çelenk Bafra, Chris Bayley, Tom Colley, Stuart Comer, Lauren Cornell, Jarrett Earnest, Reem Fadda, Silvia Franceschini, John G. Hanhardt, Yuko Hasegawa, Christelle Havranek, Kim Hong-hee, Barbara London, Simon Njami, Pablo José Ramírez, Tina Rivers Ryan, Akili Tommasino, Christine Van Assche, Jun-Jieh Wang, Emily Watlington, Catherine Wood, and X Zhu-Nowell

‘A tour de force of text and graphics.’ – NY Journal of Books‘This visual compendium…deftly tackles a difficult task: robustly interrogating moving-image art across its static pages.’ – Observer, Best Art Books of 2025