Film Book Film is a transmedial artwork that starts with a children’s book adaptation of a film, picking up the discarded book and translating it back to a film again. Accompanied by an original sound composition that reinterprets the original film score in conjunction with the grainy images in the book, the piece comes full circle.

Film Book Film is part of the experimental cinema tradition of dematerializing the image—here intricately done via the sound—at the same time as it lifts the book up, proving its physicality. The gesture brings us closer to the images, while it subjectively pushes them away. Along the lines and tricks of narrative cinema, a new experience evolves as the film alternates between objective and subjective shots. We find ourselves as both readers and spectators, all punctuated with hints of humor.

The film was commissioned by The Garage Journal: Studies in Art, Museums & Culture, 2021.