Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel - Infinite Memory
| Author | Béatrice Grenier ed. |
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| Publisher | Lenz Press |
| ISBN | 9791280579669 |
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The book accompanies the release of Poggi & Vinel's second feature film, Eat the Night. Known for their formal experimentation, the French duo merges video games, archives, and filmmaking to blur genre boundaries and challenge aesthetic norms. Their work resists categorization—is it film, game, animation, or musical score? Edited by Béatrice Grenier, the book serves as an archive of their multifaceted practice, exploring themes of memory through various media. Essays by Alenda Y. Chang, Béatrice Grenier, and Ingrid Luquet-Gad analyze how their reuse of video-game imagery preserves and reframes memory, positioning their work at the intersection of cinema, gaming, and contemporary art. In an interview with Philippe Azoury, Poggi & Vinel discuss the interplay between digital and real characters, gaming’s role in understanding other subjectivities, and community-building within and beyond their films. Each film is reimagined as a photo essay, questioning the nature of the image—moving or still. The spiral-bound book features no fixed cover, allowing readers to enter the narrative at any point, reflecting its attempt to transcend the limits of traditional media.
| 274 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English |
Lenz Press
