First published in French in 1990, Between-the-Images unites 20
illustrated essays written between 1981 and 1989 by Raymond Bellour
(born 1939), one of the world's most prominent film theorists. Bellour
writes in his foreword to this English edition: "Between-the-Images,
which was innovative yesterday, is now a kind of archeological corpus.
That is one of its virtues. It recalls how the landscape of the moving
image was constituted and historicizes the first creative passages
between film, video and photography." Considering the works and
strategies of artists and filmmakers such as Chantal Akerman, Jean
Eustache, Jean-Luc Godard, Thierry Kuntzel, Chris Marker and Bill Viola,
Bellour shows how film looks at painting and how language inspires
images. At once poetic and concisely argued, and accompanied by numerous
film stills, Bellour's now-classic essays are invaluable and still
relevant today.