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Dutch artist Aernout Mik’s moving-image installations meld filmmaking, sculpture and architecture into experiences that are at once compelling, unsettling, peculiar and plausible. The artist designs and constructs architectural spaces that hold his moving images, making the viewer’s physical relationship to his work a critical component of the overall experience. By interrogating the most basic ideas of narrative and reality and rejecting classical cinematic ideals, Mik creates works that are rich in allusion but subversive of codes. Published to accompany the artist’s first US retrospective, this volume is a vivid exploration of Mik’s work and process. Laurence Kardish, MoMA’s Senior Curator in the Department of Film, discusses the unique, creative aspects of Mik’s installations that extend the traditional boundaries of media, while Michael Taussig, professor of anthropology at Columbia University, investigates how the artist’s work changes the way we see reality while reinforcing the norms of visual culture. Abundantly illustrated with stills and the artist’s own drawings of works in the exhibition, Aernout Mik features detailed descriptions of the installations, an exhibition history and a bibliography, making it the most comprehensive volume about Mik and his work available in English.
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Published in conjunction with the Museum’s presentation of 75 featurelength films from theWeimar era, many of them only recently restored, Weimar Cinema 1919-1933: Daydreams and Nightmares reconsiders the broad spectrum of influential German films made between the world wars. Both films made in Germany and those made in America by the émigré filmmakers who arrived in Hollywood before Hitler took power deeply affected American cinema. Weimar Cinema is the first comprehensive survey of this period to include popular cinema – musicals, comedies, the ‘daydreams’ of the working class – along with the ‘nightmarish’ classics such as Fritz Lang’s Dr.Mabuse der Spieler and M, F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu: Eine Symphonie des Grauens and G.W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box. Richly illustrated with film stills, the book examines how our understanding of these films has changed in the last half century and investigates important themes in films from this period, including the portrayal of women and the role of sound. Supplementing the essays is a detailed illustrated filmography of the 75 films featured in the programme; each film is accompanied by a brief description and excerpts from reviews.
Shirley Clarke
The Passionate Life and Radical Works of an Exceptional Filmmaker
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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Shirley Clarke (1919–1997) was an American independent filmmaker, electronic media pioneer, and teacher whose energetic force resisted the norm wherever life brought her. A decade after receiving her first camera as a wedding present, Clarke's film career launched with the short Dance in the Sun (1953). Her documentary Skyscraper (1959) garnered an Academy Award nomination, and her first feature film, The Connection (1961), adapted from Jack Gelber's Off-Broadway play portraying artists with heroin addiction, sparked attention when New York State censored it for obscenity. While Clarke's documentary Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World (1963) won an Oscar, she is perhaps best known for directing Portrait of Jason (1967), which featured an interview with a gay Black male entertainer and sex worker who openly discussed his experiences of success and discrimination. Until now, Clarke's legacy has been largely pushed to history's margins._x000D_In Shirley Clarke, author Laurence Kardish presents a vivid portrait of a filmmaker whose life was often at odds with the societal expectations of a privileged woman born in twentieth-century New York City—a woman who radically admitted to being deeply conflicted about motherhood and advocated for reproductive rights. Frequently allowing Clarke to speak through her diaries, this biography follows her from birth through her modern dance training, personal relationships, collaborations with creatives like Agnès Varda, Sam Shepard, and Ornette Coleman, struggles with mental illness, and video adventures on the roof of the Chelsea Hotel. Kardish offers an up-close account of a rebel who battled convention to insist that the raw truth be told on screen, revealing a filmmaker whose countercultural impact and work in many media refuse to be ignored.