Fireflies Press

07/05/2024

"What appears as a compendium of standalone fables, essays, and poems emerges as a complex portrait of Rivers, formed around the shape of his absence."
What a wonderful text by Maria Dimitrova on our book Ben Rivers Collected Stories.

This volume announces itself simply enough. “I am here to talk to you today about the work of Ben Rivers,” begins its opening chapter, which is

09/04/2024

🎵 Christine Smallwood talking about her book La Captive on the Film Comment magazine podcast🎵

Oceanic feeling: the writer discusses her fascinating new book on Chantal Akerman’s Proust adaptation

05/03/2024

Memoria is soon back in stock! We're reprinting our book on the conception and making of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria – copies can be pre-ordered from our webshop and will ship in mid-April.

Memoria September 2021 Hardcover 190 pages 20 x 27.5cm ISBN 9783981918663 €50 Pre-order A new printing of Memoria is in production and...

22/11/2023

We’re delighted to reveal the five remaining titles in the Decadent Editions – our series of ten books about ten films, one for each year of the 2000s – and announce that the next to be published is Christine Smallwood’s La Captive.

Taking up the year 2000, La Captive completes the Decadent Editions, together with K. Austin Collins’s Domestic Violence (2001), Anwen Crawford’s Morvern Callar (2002), Ed Halter’s At Sea (2007) and J. Hoberman’s Disorder (2009).

They join the previously announced titles in the series, the first four of which have already been published: Nick Pinkerton’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003), Erika Balsom's TEN SKIES (2004), Dennis Lim’s Tale of Cinema (2005), Melissa Anderson’s Inland Empire (2006) and Rebecca Harkins-Cross’s The Headless Woman (2008).

La Captive is available to pre-order now, or you can subscribe to the series and receive the books weeks ahead of their official publication dates + save 20% on the cover price.

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The Decadent Editions is a series of ten books about ten films, one for every year of the 2000s. Each a deep dive into a single film, the ten book-length...

25/10/2023

It’s with pleasure that we announce a new collaboration with Ben Rivers ( ). The book Collected Stories is just what the title implies: a collection of stories, curated by Ben, written by contemporary authors who have influenced his filmmaking over the years.

Ahead of the retrospective ‘Ghost Strata, and other Stories’, taking place at from November 14-26, Ben invited fourteen authors to watch one of his films and respond in writing in any way they wished. Imaginative and surprising, the fables, essays and poems of Collected Stories come together in a beautiful celebration of the work of one of contemporary cinema’s vital artists, doubling as a testament to the reciprocal nature of inspiration.

The writers of these collected stories are Gina Apostol, Chloe Aridjis, Kevin Barry, Xiaolu Guo (), Golan Haji, M John Harrison, Daisy Hildyard, Nathalie Léger, Vanessa Onwuemezi (), Helen Oyeyemi, Iain Sinclair, Irene Solà (.sola.saez), Lynne Tillman () and Marina Warner.

Book design by .

Thank you to Jeu de Paume and STUK: House for Dance, Image and Sound () for generously supporting this publication.

Collected Stories Ben Rivers December 2023 176 pages 11 x 17cm ISBN 9780645454710 €13 Pre-order Pre-sale copies will...

05/09/2023

New pictures of our new book! 'Whit Stillman: Not so long ago' hits bookstores next week and launches this Sunday, Sep 10, at New York’s Metrograph, with Whit Stillman in person to present screenings of his second feature, Barcelona (1994), and of one of his favourite films, Hitchcock’s little-known Young and Innocent (1937).

Alongside a new, 15,000-word, career-spanning interview, 'Whit Stillman: Not so long ago' features a fold-out archival dossier, a selection of Stillman’s own personal writings on cinema, and essays on his films, with contributions from Serge Bozon, Charlotte Garson, Haden Guest, Beatrice Loayza, Cyril Neyrat, Nick Pinkerton and Félix Rehm.

15/05/2023

We’re thrilled to be teaming up with on a brand new book series: One Two Many!

Accompanying FIDMarseille’s annual retrospectives, these monographs explore and celebrate a given artist’s oeuvre, bringing together critics, filmmakers and scholars from both the French- and English-speaking worlds. The series’ inaugural title is Whit Stillman: Not so long ago.

Alongside a new, 15,000-word, career-spanning interview with the director of such films as Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco and Love & Friendship, the book features essays, archival documents, as well as a selection of Stillman’s own personal writings on cinema. Offering their unique perspectives on Stillman’s oeuvre, the contributors include Serge Bozon, Charlotte Garson, Haden Guest, Beatrice Loayza, Cyril Neyrat, Nick Pinkerton and Félix Rehm.

Gorgeously designed by .

Pre-order now to receive your copy in July 2023, two months ahead of the September publication date.

09/05/2023

Our book Pier Paolo Pasolini : Writing on Burning Paper is longlisted for the annual prize of the Stiftung Buchkunst!

Die Zweite Jury tagt!
Wir starten mit der Kategorie

Doch welche Bücher haben es von der Ersten Jury in die Zweite Jury geschafft?
Wer ist auf der ?

https://www.stiftung-buchkunst.de/die-schoensten-deutschen-buecher/die-longlist/

Allgemeine Literatur (31 Bücher)

Anselm Weyer
Die Insel der Seligen
Greven Verlag Köln
Gestaltung: Clara Neumann / Christina Schmid
ISBN: 978-3-7743-0949-4
Preis: 16,00

Uwe Dick
Sauwaldprosa
Wallstein Verlag
Gestaltung: Sven Uftring
ISBN: 978-3-8353-5291-9
Preis: 50,00

Susanne Fischer(Hg.) / Gerd Hankel (Hg.) / Wolfgang Knöbl (Hg.)
Die Gegenwart der Gewalt und die Macht der Aufklärung
Festschrift für Jan Philipp Reemtsma
Social-Media Zu Klampen Verlag
Gestaltung: Friedrich Forssman
Illustration: Cornelia Feyll
ISBN: 9783866748392
Preis: 68,00

Stephen King
ES
Heyne Verlag München
Gestaltung: Solid&Bold / Dominik Langegger & Sergej Ritter-Höntzsch
Illustration: Max Löffler
ISBN: 978-3-453-27240-8
Preis: 75,00

Emily Dickinson / Kai Grehn
Mögen Sie Emily Dickinson?
Major Label, Jena / Zweitausendeins, Leipzig
Gestaltung: Andreas Töpfer
ISBN: 978-3-96318-168-9
Preis: 22,00

Alan W. Moore / Marc Herbst (Hg.)
Art Worker
Doing Time in the Art world
Journal of Aesthetics and Protest
Gestaltung: Florian Lamm / Jakob Kirch / Caspar Reuss
ISBN: 978-0-578-36980-8
Preis: 30,00

Arno Lederer / Jorunn Ragnarsdottir (Hg.)
Drinnen ist anders als draußen
Architektur lesen
JOVIS Verlag Berlin
Gestaltung: Bucharchitektur / Kathrin Schmuck / Jorunn Ragnarsdottir
Illustration: Arno Lederer
ISBN: 978-3-86859-872-8
Preis: 38,00

Madeline Miller / Julia Eisele (Hg.)
Galatea
Eisele Verlag, München
Gestaltung: Red Cape Production (Inhalt) / FAVORITBUERO (Umschlag)
Illustration: Thomke Meyer
ISBN: 9783961611416
Preis: 20,00

Kim de L`Horizon
Blutbuch
DuMont Buchverlag
Gestaltung: Andreas Färber / Andrea Lovo Valim
ISBN: 9783832182083
Preis: 24,00

Mariana Leky
Ku**er aller Art
DuMont Buchverlag
Gestaltung: Sascha Anderson / Andrea Lovo Valim
ISBN: 9783832182168
Preis: 22,00

Cindy Ruch
Woanders wachsen Mangos
Vom Wegsein, der großen Liebe Australien und dem Versuch, die Sehnsucht zuhause zu stillen
Reisedepeschen
Gestaltung: Johannes Klaus
Illustration: Cindy Ruch
ISBN: 978-3-96348-025-6
Preis: 26,00

Thomas Hettche (Hg.)
Es ist recht sehr Nacht geworden
Kleist, Raabe, Benn
Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch
Gestaltung: Hanne Mandik / Barbara Thoben
ISBN: 978-3-462-00285-0
Preis: 24,00

Kat Menschik / Jakob Hein
Illustriertes Kompendium der psychoaktiven Pflanzen
Verlag Galiani Berlin
Gestaltung: Hanne Mandik
Illustration: Kat Menschik
ISBN: 978-3-86971-261-1
Preis: 22,00

J.R.R. Tolkien
Der Herr der Ringe (Lederausgabe)
Luxusausgabe
Hobbit Presse
Gestaltung: Anja Krämer
ISBN: 978-3-608-98703-4
Preis: 128,00

Giovanni Marchini Camia (Hg.) / Annabel Brady-Brown (Hg.)
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Writing on Burning Paper
Fireflies Press
Gestaltung: Ilhas Studio
ISBN: 9780645454727
Preis: 32,00

Raymond Roussel / Maximilian Gilleßen (Hg.) / Stefan Ripplinger (Hg.)
Der Anblick
Zero sharp Berlin
Gestaltung: Anton Stuckardt
ISBN: 978-3-945421-15-4
Preis: 22,00

Dirk von Petersdorff (Hg.)
Der ewige Brunnen
Deutsche Gedichte aus zwölf Jahrhunderten
Verlag C.H.BECK
Gestaltung: Jörg Alt
Illustration: Kunst oder Reklame, München
ISBN: 978-3-406-67642-0
Preis: 28,00

Paula Hildebrandt
Welcome City
adocs publishing Hamburg
Gestaltung: Gilbert Schneider / Christopher Jung
ISBN: 9783943253566
Preis: 18,00

Oscar Wilde / Ingrid Rein (Hg.)
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Reclam Verlag
Gestaltung: Philipp Reclam jun. Verlag GmbH
Illustration / Fotografie: Anna Balbusso, Elena Balbusso
ISBN: 978-3-15-011444-5
Preis: 28,00

Thomas Köck
eure paläste sind leer (all we ever wanted) / Reihe, 6 Titel
Vertreter für die Reihe Suhrkamp Theater, 6 Titel
Suhrkamp Verlag (Reihe: Suhrkamp Theater)
Gestaltung: Lucas Liccini (Hanzer Liccini, Berlin) / Elias Hanzer (Hanzer Liccini, Berlin)
ISBN: 978-3-518-43096-5
Preis: 16,00

Itamar Gov (Hg.) / Hila Peleg (Hg.) / Eran Schaerf (Hg.)
Ein jüdischer Garten
Hanser Literaturverlage
ISBN: 978-3-446-27468-6
Preis: 28,00

Marcus Hernig
Der Erfinder der Seidenstraße
Ferdinand von Richthofen
Die Andere Bibliothek
Gestaltung: 2x Goldstein
ISBN: 978-3-8477-0451-5
Preis: 44,00

Peter Graf (Hg.) / Thomas Böhm (Hg.)
NEUERLICHE ENTDECKUNGSFREUDIGE ERKUNDUNG DES GRIMMSCHEN WÖRTERBUCHES, DEN LEBENSOCEAN UND DIE SPRACHMENSCHWERDUNG BETREFFEND
Das Kulturelle Gedächtnis
Gestaltung: 2x Goldstein
ISBN: 978-3-946990-59-8
Preis: 28,00

Irene Vallejo
Papyrus
Die Geschichte der Welt in Büchern
Diogenes Verlag
Gestaltung: Diogenes Verlag
Illustration / Fotografie: James Bruce
ISBN: 978-3-257-07198-6
Preis: 28,00

Hanna Mittelstädt
Arbeitet nie! Die Erfindung eines anderen Lebens
Chronik eines Verlags
Edition Nautilus Hamburg
Gestaltung: Julian Mader / Max Prediger
ISBN: 9783960543176
Preis: 28,00

Michael Lentz
Chora
Gedichte
S. Fischer Verlage
Gestaltung: Katrin Uplegger
ISBN: 978-3-10-390012-5
Preis: 24,00

Sir Thomas Browne / Judith Schalansky (Hg.) / Manfred Pfister (Hg.)
Der Garten des Cyrus
Wesentliche Werke
Matthes & Seitz Berlin
Gestaltung: Judith Schalansky
Illustration: Judith Schalansky
ISBN: 978-3-7518-0024-2
Preis: 78,00

Ricarda Willimann / Elias Hauck (Hg.)
Wer war ich?
Ein humoristisches Jahrhundertereignis
Die Andere Bibliothek/ Aufbau Verlage
Gestaltung: Hans-Jörg Pochmann
Illustration / Fotografie: Ricarda Willimann
ISBN: 978-3847704522
Preis: 44,00

Robert Stripling
Unter Stunden
Album I
Kookbooks
Gestaltung: Andreas Töpfer / Robert Stripling
Illustration / Fotografie: Andreas Töpfer, Robert Stripling
ISBN: 9783948336073
Preis: 28,00

Hannah Star Rogers / Hiram Rogers / Matthew E. Eisler / Demian Bern (Hg.) / Elke aus dem Moore (Hg.)
Peach Mountain
EXP.edition / Edition Solitude
Gestaltung: Demian Bern
Illustration / Fotografie: Hiram Rogers
ISBN: 978-3-946839-07-1
Preis: 24,00

Rosemary Mayer / Bernadette Mayer / Marie Warsh (Hg.) / Gillian Sneed (Hg.)
The Letters of Rosemary and Bernadette Mayer, 1976-1980
Swiss Institute, New York
Gestaltung: Santiago da Silva / Ana Cecilia Brena
ISBN: 9780999505960
Preis: 25,00

04/02/2023

The original premise of the book was to discuss all of Hong’s films by writing about just one of them Interview with Dennis Lim: Hong Sang-soo Is a Very Confident Filmmaker

21/01/2023

Cinema Scope needs your help!

The new issue is online, as always crammed with terrific writing. Start by reading the Editor's Note and consider subscribing – $40/year for the best English-language film mag left in print is a steal!

I had hoped that we would reach the age of 100, but 93 is pretty damned old. We still might get there. Here are the best films of all time.

16/01/2023

Tomorrow!

15/11/2022

Many thanks to Film Comment for inviting us to have this fun chat about Pasolini with Radu Jude, whose terrific essay "A Lesson from Pasolini" is one of the pieces in our new book on PPP.

Against interpretation: filmmaker Radu Jude and critic Giovanni Marchini Camia join to discuss the continuing significance of the films and writing of Pier Paolo Pasolini

15/11/2022

CB on PPP

Catherine Breillat on Pier Paolo Pasolini

01/11/2022

Our book Pier Paolo Pasolini: Writing on Burning Paper is available to order! And now we can reveal that it’s in fact two books!

In a gorgeous design conceived by , the two complementary volumes slide into one another, forming a unique set that evokes and celebrates Pasolini’s enduring influence. The smaller book features his epic autobiographical poem ‘Poet of the Ashes’, while the larger book comprises original tributes by some of the most vital filmmakers working today.

Twenty filmmakers shared personal reflections in the form of essays, poems, photographs, drawings and more: Catherine Breillat, Luise Donschen & Helena Wittmann, Jia Zhangke, Radu Jude, Payal Kapadia, Alexandre Koberidze, Dane Komljen, Mike Leigh, Mariano Llinás, Roberto Minervini, Valérie Massadian, Luc Moullet, Ben Rivers, Angela Schanelec, Ulrich Seidl, Basma al-Sharif, Deborah Stratman, Anocha Suwichakornpong and Gustavo Vinagre.

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01/08/2022

Dennis Lim’s monograph about Hong Sangsoo’s “Tale of Cinema”, the fourth book of the Decadent Editions, drops in bookstores today! Geonbae!

09/05/2022

The Tale of Cinema continues in Los Angeles! Dennis Lim will present his new book on Hong Sangsoo at this terrific double bill.

**Déjà vu: A Hong Sangsoo Double Bill** **Tale of Cinema** & **Nobody's Daughter Haewon** (2005/2013) Los Angeles launch of Dennis Lim's new book on Hong S...

24/03/2022

Dennis Lim's Tale of Cinema is now available to pre-order! In the fourth book in our Decadent Editions series, Dennis Lim explores the oeuvre of revered South Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo via his 2005 film.

Tale of Cinema Dennis Lim August 2022 216 Pages ISBN 9780645454703 €11 (+ €4 shipping) ...

05/03/2022

Happy 100th birthday, Pier Paolo Pasolini!

As some of you may know, Pasolini was the inspiration for the name ‘Fireflies’ and the subject of our very first publication. Today is the centenary of his birth and we’re thrilled to announce our new publication: PIER PAOLO PASOLINI: WRITING ON BURNING PAPER.

The book honours Pasolini's enduring influence by staging a dialogue between cinema today and Pasolini's timeless films and words.

Pasolini's epic autobiographical poem "Poeta delle ceneri”, in a revised translation by esteemed poet Stephen Sartarelli, is set alongside original written and visual tributes by some of the most exciting filmmakers from across the contemporary landscape – including Radu Jude, Catherine Breillat, Jia Zhangke, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Roberto Minervini, Angela Schanelec, Gustavo Vinagre, Basma Alsharif and Alexandre Koberidze.

More details, including the full list of contributing filmmakers, will be revealed in the coming months.

The book comes out in the autumn and can currently be purchased on our webshop at a special pre-sale price.

31/01/2022

If DeepL is to be trusted (and when is it ever not), this text in Dutch about our Memoria book is really great.

“Hundreds of tiny lights flicker across the vast darkness”, zo leest Apichatpongs eerste zin in het boek-bij-de-film Memoria. Die beschrijving van een observatie bij nacht is als een film, zoals zoveel ook alledaagse ervaringen voor de Thaise filmmaker bestaan door het prisma van cinema. Een wan...

24/01/2022

London! We're finally coming back to our dear
Close-Up Cinema on the 5th of February for a screening of MEMORIA, where we'll also present our book on the film. Come say hi!

Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2021, the latest feature from director Apichatpong Weerasethakul stars Tilda Swinton as a woman left isolated and traumatised by unexplained sounds and noises that it appears only she can hear. This screening coincide with Fireflies Press book launch Memoria.

04/01/2022

Just discovered two boxes of our previously out-of-print Fireflies #4 (Pedro Costa / ) and #5 (Angela Schanelec / Agnès Varda)! There's 21 copies of #4 and 40 copies of #5 – get ‘em before they’re gone!

19/11/2021

If you're in Canberra tonight, don't miss the launch of Melissa Anderson's Inland Empire NFSA - National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, kicking off a 7-film Laura Dern weekend https://www.nfsa.gov.au/events/season-wild-heart-films-laura-dern

These 7 films showcase the versatility of Laura Dern and range from lesser-known indies to Hollywood and art-house classics.

02/11/2021

Left speechless by Corentin Lê's review of the MEMORIA book in Critikat, which perfectly grasps and beautifully describes what we set out to do.

"To represent, through the layout, the excavation involved in the exploration of memory: here is the appeal of this beautiful work, which doesn’t merely crystallise the film’s trajectory within an elegant edition, but manages to extend, on paper, its vibrant journey."

In French, but well worth passing through DeepL.com if you're interested.

Parallèlement à la sortie de Memoria, les éditions anglophones Fireflies Press proposent de retracer la genèse du film d’Apichatpong Weerasethakul dans un

01/11/2021

Happy publication day to Melissa Anderson’s INLAND EMPIRE!

The book is now available in shops worldwide, and you can read an
excerpt at MUBI Notebook: https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/watching-women-watching-an-excerpt-from-inland-empire

31/10/2021

02/08/2021

Melissa Anderson's Inland Empire – the third title in our Decadent Editions series – is now available for pre-order! https://firefliespress.com/Inland-Empire

Inland Empire Melissa Anderson November 2021 128 Pages €11 (+ €4 shipping) Pre-order ISBN 9783981918694 ‘Melissa Anderson’s wonderful, insightful...

21/07/2021

☁️☁️BERLIN! Ten Skies under the open sky: join us at Haus der Kulturen der Welt on Aug 1st for an open-air screening of Benning's film + launch of Erika Balsom's book, introduced by Erika herself!☁️☁️

Ten Skies D: James Benning, USA 2004, 100 min One of this unique filmmaker’s greatest works, and on paper, one of his most minimalist: ten shots of the sky, each lasting ten minutes. But the...