After Cinema Storytelling in Contemporary Media Art

After Cinema: Storytelling in Contemporary Media Art by Heinz Peter Schwerfel is a comprehensive examination of how cinema’s language, grammar, and storytelling traditions have been absorbed, transformed, and reimagined by contemporary media artists working in video installation, digital art, and the expanded field between gallery and screen. Schwerfel, a film critic and curator, examines artists from Bill Viola to Apichatpong Weerasethakul to Hito Steyerl, showing how they use cinematic time, narrative, and moving image in ways that would be impossible in conventional film. Published by Hatje Cantz with extensive illustration, this is essential for film scholars, contemporary art curators, and anyone interested in the ways that cinema continues to transform the arts even as its own form is questioned and expanded.