After Cinema - Storytelling in Contemporary Media Art

An informative, inspiring, richly illustrated book on contemporary moving-image art. This book sets out to use the latest technologies to short-circuit the universally understandable language of the mass media and to make art once again a critical mirror of its time. Around sixty artists from more than twenty countries are presented in eight chapters, that address social, political, and scientific themes (racism, climate change, capitalism, eccentricity, sex, zeitgeist, and fashionable and frightening technologies) in a way that is playful and innovative.

HEINZ PETER SCHWERFEL (*1954) lives in Paris. He works as a journalist, filmmaker and curator, and is the author of books on artists (Georg Baselitz, Jannis Kounellis) and non-fiction books such as Kunst-Skandale and Kino und Kunst. As a filmmaker, he produced films about Christian Boltanski, Rebecca Horn, Anish Kapoor, Christoph Marthaler, Annette Messager, Bruce Nauman, Cees Nooteboom, and many others, as well as TV series for the art channel ARTE (Design, Live Art). In addition, he curated exhibitions of work by Shirin Neshat, Julian Rosefeldt, and Loukia Alavanou (Greek pavilion, 2022 Venice Biennale).

Cover
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Titlepage
Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: A NEW DREAM FACTORY
CHAPTER 2: FILM AS ART
CHAPTER 3: POST-TRUTH: DOCUMENTARY FILM AS FICTION
CHAPTER 4: POLITICS WITHOUT MORALIZING
CHAPTER 5: IMMERSION: A JOURNEY INTO THE COLLECTIVE SUBCONSCIOUS
CHAPTER 6: MEDIATED ECCENTRICITY
CHAPTER 7: ANIMATED REALITY
CHAPTER 8: HOLLYWOOD AS RAW MATERIAL
List of Reproductions
Index
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