Iorio / Cuomo

a selection
of past and ongoing projects:

Was das Wasser erzählt
Chronicles of that time
Undead Voices
Appunti del passaggio
From thousands of possibilities
Twisted Realism
Towards a history
of the vanishing present
Sudeuropa

Jamii ya sinema.club
A cinema situation
Unfinished histories

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Towards a history of the vanishing present

Orient Palace (Collection)
The Interpreter
Fabriques
Et jamais devient:


Et jamais devient:

And never becomes:
an essay by Maria iorio and Raphaël Cuomo
2014

published in

Der Standpunkt der Aufnahme - Point of View
Perspectives of political film and video work
edited by Tobias Hering
designed by Chiara Figone
published by Archive Books in collaboration with Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art, Berlin 2014
485 pages, German & English
22 Euros (in Germany)
ISBN 978-3943620146

Der Standpunkt der Aufnahme - Point of View
Perspectives of political film and video work
A collection of texts and image essays through which film-makers, artists and theoreticians reflect on where 'the political' comes into their work and how making films turns into a political practice itself.

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List of Contents

Tobias Hering
Der Standpunkt der Aufnahme – Point of View

Videoladen Zürich
Züri brännt jetzt! / Zurich’s burning now!

Joanne Richardson
Making films politically

Charles Heller
Image.Migration

Raphaël Cuomo, Maria Iorio
And never becomes:

Serge Daney
The Restaging

Brigitta Kuster —
Choix d’un passé. Traits d’union

dogfilm
dogfilm goes Fernsehen? / dogfilm goes television?

Bärbel Schönafinger
kanalB ersetzt herkömmliches Fernsehen / kanalB replaces ordinary television

Serge Daney
On Paper

Djibril Diop Mambéty
La grammaire de grand-mère / Grandma’s Grammar

Brigitta Kuster
parler film

bankleer
Les Maîtres 2000. Syntax und Fleisch / Les Maîtres 2000. Syntax and Flesh

Jean-Marie Straub, Elke Marhöfer, Mikhail Lylov
Tausend Klippen / A Thousand Cliffs

Serge Daney
A Tomb for the Eye (Straubian Pedagogy)

Sarah Vanagt, Tobias Hering
Disturbed Earth

Robert Schlicht
Film als Schauprozess / Film as Show Trial

Robert Schlicht, Romana Schmalisch
Supplements to Preliminaries
Miriam Aprigio, Raphaël Grisey
Taking part in festivities of one hundred years ago ... Dear Miriam

Avery Gordon
Who’s there? Some answers to questions about ghostly matters

All new texts are published for the first time. The repertoire texts are made available in print for the first time, some as first-time translations into English. "Der Standpunkt der Aufnahme - Point of View" is conceived as providing reading matter; as a book which is not aspiring to fully or objectively cover its field of concern, but whose subjective contents, as much as they feed from specific work contexts, invariably raise and tackle questions which all politically concerned film and video work needs to address. Such questions, about the integrity of one's work, about the interaction between the camera and those filmed, about the relation between image and language, about positioning one's own production in the force-field of a largely globalized media landscape, are what suggests that there is a "political" dimension to this work in the first place. And it is the point of view, one's own position, "der Standpunkt der Aufnahme", the position of the camera as much as the history one is coming from, which such questions are concerning.