MANY OF THEM – VOL. IV

COSMIC WONDER, LOUIS VUITTON, ISSEY MIYAKE, HERMÈS, SAINT LAURENT, LOEWE, YOHJI YAMAMOTO, IRÈNE SILVAGNI, LIMI FEU, UNDERCOVER, DRIES VAN NOTEN, LEMAIRE, CHANEL, BERNHARD WILLHELM, JUNYA WATANABE, COMME DES GARÇONS, MAURIZIO AMADEI, ALAÏA, PAZ DE LA HUERTA, DANIELA GREGIS, SYBILLA, GEOFFREY B. SMALL, EATABLE OF MANY ORDERS, SACAI, PLY, RAGNE KIKAS, STEVE MONO, JAN-JAN VAN ESSCHE, SUSAN CIANCIOLO, KOCHÉ, BLESS, ORIOLE CULLEN, KAAT DEBO, AKIKO FUKAI, HAROLD KODA, OLIVIER SAILLARD, VALERIE STEELE, PEDRO COSTA, JIA ZHANG-KE, AMAT ESCALANTE, ISAKI LACUESTA, LISANDRO ALONSO, NATHALIA ACEVEDO, LAV DIAZ, MOIRA LANG, CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG, MIA HANSEN-LØVE, JONAS MEKAS, TODD HAYNES

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Scrapbook of the Sixties is a collection of published and unpublished texts by Jonas Mekas, filmmaker, writer, poet, and cofounder of the Anthology Film Archives in New York. Born in Lithuania, he came to Brooklyn via Germany in 1949 and began shooting his first films there. Mekas developed a form of film diary in which he recorded moments of his daily life. He became the barometer of the New York art scene and a pioneer of American avant-garde cinema. Every week, starting in 1958, he published his legendary “Movie Journal” column in The Village Voice, writing on a range of subjects that were by no means restricted to the world of film. He conducted numerous interviews with artists like Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Erick Hawkins, and Nam June Paik. Some of these will now appear for the first time in his Scrapbook of the Sixties. Mekas’s writings reveal him as a thoughtful diarist and an unparalleled chronicler of the times—a practice that he has continued now for over fifty years.

Jonas Mekas (*1922, Semeniškiai / Lithuania), lives and works in New York. Film-maker, writer, poet and co-founder of the Anthology Film Archives one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde film. Mekas’s work has been exhibited in museums and festivals worldwide.

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You Killed Me First: The Cinema Of Transgression.

Albtraumhafte Gewaltszenarien, dramatische Seelenzustände, perverse sexuelle Abgründe: Die bewußt auf Schock, Provokation und Konfrontation angelegten Filme des Cinema of Transgression zeugen von einer außergewöhnlichen Radikalität. In den 1980er Jahren ging eine Gruppe von Filmemachern in der New Yorker Lower East Side auf Kollisionskurs mit der amerikanischen Gesellschaft. Alle moralischen und ästhetischen Grenzen überschreitend, enthüllten sie in ihren Filmen eine soziale Härte, die auf gesellschaftspolitische Gleichgültigkeit trifft. In den teilweise mit geklautem Kameraequipment gedrehten Low-Budget-Filmen manifestieren sich scharfe Analysen des von Kriminalität, Brutalität, Drogen, Aids, Sex und Exzessen geprägten Lebens in der Lower East Side. Standphotos, Bildausschnitte, Flugblätter und die harte Typographie vermitteln perfekt die Ernsthaftigkeit der Künstler.

Nightmarish scenarios of violence, dramatic states of mind, and perverse sexual abysses – the films of the Cinema of Transgression that were consciously aimed at shock, provocation, and confrontation, bear witness to an extraordinary radicality. In the 1980s a group of filmmakers from the Lower East Side in New York went on a collision course with the conventions of American society. Transcending all moral or aesthetic boundaries, the low budget films reveal social hardship met with sociopolitical indifference. Sometimes shot with stolen camera equipment, the films contain strident analyses of life in the Lower East Side defined by criminality, brutality, drugs, AIDS, sex, and excess. The catalogue is published on the occasion of the worldwide first exhibition on the Cinema of Transgression, YOU KILLED ME FIRST at KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin. The catalogue includes contributions by Sylvère Lotringer, Carlo McCormick, Jonas Mekas, Susanne Pfeffer, Jack Sargeant and Nick Zedd.

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The new ANP Quarterly is in stock !
Featuring Nicolas Pol, Jonas Mekas, Matt Lips and many more.

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