PUBLISHER
San Francisco Cinemateque

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 64 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 6/15/2004
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: SPRING 2005 p. 147

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780974999609 TRADE
List Price: $20.00 CAD $25.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

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City Slivers And Fresh Kills: The Films Of Gordon Matta-Clark

Essay by Steven Jenkins.

Images of the deconstruction of abandoned buildings and industrial structures are closely associated with “anarchitect” Gordon Matta-Clark. Here, however, are the film works through which Matta-Clark furthered his lifelong excavation of urban dwellings. In this book, San Francisco Cinematheque presents a retrospective of the moving-image works through which Matta-Clark explored his aesthetic assumptions and philosophical inquiry. Featuring rarely published images and a quartet of imaginative essays, City Slivers and Fresh Kills establishes Matta-Clark's films as perhaps his most surprising, and certainly most viscerally arresting body of work, characterized by the same creative provocation, rough aesthetic beauty and intellectual insight that idefined his signature architectural cuttings and slicings.