CINEMA DU LOOK POCKETBOOKS

There is a particular pleasure in stopping a film. An image that might otherwise disappear in a second can be held, examined and returned to. Sometimes what catches our attention is a face or a gesture.
Sometimes it's a mirror, a pair of glasses or a hat.
 

Cinema du Look Pocketbooks began with the impulse to hold on to these images. But collecting is only the beginning. Seen together, stills from different films reveal unexpected correspondences and contradictions. The familiar becomes curious again.

Each Pocketbook explores a recurring visual motif through three
chapters of film stills, alongside an original commissioned essay that invites further interpretation. Mirrors, Glasses and Hats are
the first three titles in the series.