Tale of Cinema literature part of Reaktion’s much-loved Animal

part of Reaktion’s much-loved Animal Series

This book depicts 12 photos of toasts on a wooden table

stretching from an analysis of ‘Time in Film and Video Art’ to a study of ‘Riff-Raff Realism’ in British films

and a film programme

Tale of Cinema literature part of Reaktion’s much-loved AnimalIn the fourth title of the acclaimed Decadent Editions series, Dennis Lim explores the oeuvre of South Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo via his 2005 film. Forty minutes in, we realise weve been watching a film within the film. The real characters leave the cinema and find themselves reenacting what they just saw, as a chance encounter invites a suicide pact. Is it life imitating art, or the other way around? Dennis Lim is a film curator, teacher, and