Heinz Peter Schwerfel’s After Cinema: Storytelling in Contemporary Media Art Released

Dirimart announced the release of After Cinema: Storytelling in Contemporary Media Art, a new publication by German curator, filmmaker, and journalist Heinz Peter Schwerfel. This informative, inspiring, and richly illustrated survey book offers an accessible and informative overview on contemporary moving-image art, focusing of contemporary storytelling in media art as the laboratory for new forms in understanding our reality. The book questions the potential of media art to transcend the universal language of mass communication and once again to become a critical mirror of its time. Published in English and German by Berlin-based Hatje Cantz in collaboration with Dirimart, After Cinema is enriched with stills from the works of nearly sixty artists from more than twenty countries, including Doug Aitken, Halil Altındere, Yael Bartana, Hans Op de Beeck, İnci Eviner, Isaac Julien, William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat, Erkan Özgen, Julian Rosefeldt, Hito Steyerl, and Martine Syms, among others.

3 January 2025