Luminous Void: Experimental Film Society Documents — eBook (PDF)

EFS Publications · eBook (PDF) · Three Covers

Luminous Void: Experimental Film Society Documents chronicles the history of the Experimental Film Society through the writings that made it: essays, interviews and manifestos that set out — and emerge from — the ideas driving EFS filmmaking. Edited by Rouzbeh Rashidi and Maximilian Le Cain, it gathers the Society’s foundational documents into a single volume, together with new texts written for the book by the renowned film critic Adrian Martin and by Alice Butler & Daniel Fitzpatrick, the curatorial team behind aemi (artists and experimental moving image).

This is the kind of book which belongs in the homes of artists, filmmakers, critics, programmers, curators and fans, encountered years from now well thumbed and returned to again and again; as much a source of inspiration or a space for reflection on cinema and its ineffable power as a manual for uncompromised creative practice.

Alice Butler & Daniel Fitzpatrick · aemi

The book was conceived with three covers — a circle, a triangle, a square: an identity never entirely fixed, but mutable, unstable, continuously transforming. The text within is one and identical; only the face changes.

The digital edition preserves this principle completely: every purchase contains all three editions — enter through the form you choose.

The original printed edition, published in all three forms, is completely sold out. Luminous Void: Experimental Film Society Documents is now available exclusively as a downloadable eBook (PDF), priced at €10. All three covers are delivered together, immediately after purchase.