Last Movies by Stanley Schtinter (Tenement Press, 2023)
with a Foreword (Programme Notes) by Erika Balsom;
an ‘Intermission’ from Bill Drummond;
& an Afterword by Nicole Brenez
Edited by Dominic Jaeckle
ISBN: 978-1-7393851-1-8
324pp / 140 x 216mm
Designed and typeset by Traven T. Croves
Published 5th November 2023
tenementpress.com/Last-Movies
*
Very strange, and deeply thought-provoking.
—Laura Mulvey
A scintillating labyrinth of synchronicities, where Schtinter’s meticulous research and encyclopaedic knowledge are as impressive as his intriguing speculations. Essential reading for film buffs, conspiracy theorists and high-end pub quizzers everywhere.
—John Smith
All films are haunted, both by the immortal light of the sooner-or-later dead that they curate, and by the filaments of meaning they extrude into unscripted human lives. Last Movies is an unexpectedly revealing catalogue of final interchanges between imminent ghosts and counterpart electric spectres on the screen’s far side. Profound and riveting, Schtinter’s graveyard perspective offers up a rich and startlingly novel view of cinema, angled through cemetery gates before the closing credits. A remarkable accomplishment.
—Alan Moore
Wade more than a dozen pages into Last Movies and these connections start to reveal themselves like constellations on a cloudless night.
—Ryan Gilbey, The Guardian
Here is the endgame of endgames. A commendably perverse demonstration of how it is possible for something to be assimilated, by way of rumour and manipulated history, without being experienced.
—Iain Sinclair, Sight & Sound
The Liberated Film Club by Stanley Schtinter (Tenement Press, 2021)
with John Akomfrah, Chloe Aridjis, Dennis Cooper, Laura Mulvey, Chris Petit, Mania Akbar, Elena Gorfinkel,
Juliet Jacques, Ben Rivers, Dan Fox, Sean Price Williams, Adam Christensen, Stewart Home, Stephen Watts, Tony Grisoni, Gideon Koppel, Astra Taylor, Miranda Pennell, Gareth Evans, Adam Roberts, Tai Shani, Anna Thew, Xiaolu Guo, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, William Fowler, Athina Tsangari, John Rogers, Shama Khanna, Shezad Dawood, Damien Sanville
ISBN: 978-1-8380200-3-3
408 pp / 140 x 216mm
Designed and typeset by Traven T. Croves
Published 23rd October 2021
tenementpress.com/Liberty
*
Read Jonathan Rosenbaum’s review for Screen Slate here
Schtinter runs with wolves. His Liberated Film Club was, throughout its brief, perfect existence, the antidote to contemporary cinephilia. It was impious and sexy, mysterious and unsober, a ululatory free zone for refuseniks, a place of magic and mayonnaise. If you never made it to one of its mad, baffling nights, this book is guaranteed to make your loss all the more deliciously unbearable.
—Sukhdev Sandhu
Herein lies the Exquisite Corpse of The Liberated Film Club, to align in ways you never would have expected and in order to show you something new.
—Matilda Munro, Sight & Sound
This is a chronicle of addiction, written blindfold by the light of a flickering screen to a soundtrack of Russian roulette loaded against prediction.
—Brian Catling
There are more and more curators of experimental cinema, which is great; but unfortunately still few experimental curators. Stanley Schtinter offers us a fascinating and liberating example.
—Nicole Brenez