Book launch: Film Undone. Elements of a Latent Cinema

We cordially invite you to the launch of Film Undone. Elements of a Latent Cinema, presented by contributors Olexii Kuchanskiy, Brigitta Kuster, Ojoboca, Uriel Orlow, Lisabona Rahman, Elena Vogman, and editor Philip Widmann. Moderated by Marietta Kesting.

Film Undone presents contributions introducing unmade and unfinished film projects, film ideas realised in non-filmic media, as well as films that remained unseen in their intended form and at their intended time. These tentative and careful probes dedicated to singular projects reflect the importance of primary materials before and beyond the film. Bringing them together as Elements of a Latent Cinema opens a space to consider cases from various political geographies and historical moments in relation. Latency prompts to think differently about what has remained invisible in cinema than under deficit-centred categories such as failure, loss, or incompletion. It marks a sustained potentiality for things to change their condition, to affect us and set us in motion.

The book, recently published by Archive Books and designed by arc-gestaltung, is part of the project Film Undone, which initially took place at silent green and Kino Arsenal in July 2023 and currently continues in smaller formats outside of Germany.

More info: www.latent-cinema.net https://www.archivebooks.org/film-undone/