Publications
Exploring the emergence of collective imaginaries, Los Angeles-based Argentine artist Carmen Amengual examines how conceptions of time and history shape political imagination. Her expansive project, A Non-Coincidental Mirror, follows this line of inquiry, investigating two often-forgotten events in the cultural history of Global South solidarities: the Third World Filmmakers Meeting in Algiers in 1973 and its second iteration in Buenos Aires in 1974.
Published on occasion of the exhibition of the same name, presented in the context of the artist’s 2022–2024 VLC Fellowship, A Non-Coincidental Mirror is the first monograph on Carmen Amengual and extensively examines the filmmakers’ meetings and their myriad aftermaths from an artistic and historiographical perspective. The book brings together a visual collage of Amengual’s research, film stills, and architectural models alongside a reflection on the trajectory of Amengual’s project by exhibition curators Eriola Pira and Rachel Vera Steinberg; an essay by film historian Mariano Mestman contextualizing cinematic Third-Worldism in the 1960s and 1970s; and a conversation between the artist and independent curator and writer Natasha Marie Llorens on shared political desires, loss, and utopian imagining in Algiers and Buenos Aires.
Film Undone. Elements of a Latent Cinema
Archive Books
Film Undone presents contributions introducing unmade and unfinished film projects, film ideas realised in non-filmic media, as well as films that remained unseen in their intended form and at their intended time. These tentative and careful probes dedicated to singular projects reflect the importance of primary materials before and beyond the film. Bringing them together as Elements of a Latent Cinema opens a space to consider cases from various political geographies and historical moments in relation. Latency prompts to think differently about what has remained invisible in cinema than under deficit-centred categories such as failure, loss, or incompletion. It marks a sustained potentiality for things to change their condition, to affect us and set us in motion.
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Lyric Poetry is Dead
by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg
Illustrated by Carmen Amengual
bilingual edition translated by Robin Myers
A Non-Coincidental Mirror
by Carmen Amengual
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics
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by Carmen Amengual
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics
2025
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Exploring the emergence of collective imaginaries, Los Angeles-based Argentine artist Carmen Amengual examines how conceptions of time and history shape political imagination. Her expansive project, A Non-Coincidental Mirror, follows this line of inquiry, investigating two often-forgotten events in the cultural history of Global South solidarities: the Third World Filmmakers Meeting in Algiers in 1973 and its second iteration in Buenos Aires in 1974.
Published on occasion of the exhibition of the same name, presented in the context of the artist’s 2022–2024 VLC Fellowship, A Non-Coincidental Mirror is the first monograph on Carmen Amengual and extensively examines the filmmakers’ meetings and their myriad aftermaths from an artistic and historiographical perspective. The book brings together a visual collage of Amengual’s research, film stills, and architectural models alongside a reflection on the trajectory of Amengual’s project by exhibition curators Eriola Pira and Rachel Vera Steinberg; an essay by film historian Mariano Mestman contextualizing cinematic Third-Worldism in the 1960s and 1970s; and a conversation between the artist and independent curator and writer Natasha Marie Llorens on shared political desires, loss, and utopian imagining in Algiers and Buenos Aires.
Film Undone. Elements of a Latent Cinema
Archive Books
2024
Film Undone presents contributions introducing unmade and unfinished film projects, film ideas realised in non-filmic media, as well as films that remained unseen in their intended form and at their intended time. These tentative and careful probes dedicated to singular projects reflect the importance of primary materials before and beyond the film. Bringing them together as Elements of a Latent Cinema opens a space to consider cases from various political geographies and historical moments in relation. Latency prompts to think differently about what has remained invisible in cinema than under deficit-centred categories such as failure, loss, or incompletion. It marks a sustained potentiality for things to change their condition, to affect us and set us in motion.
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Film Undone. Elements of a Latent Cinema
Contributors
Alejandro Alvarado, Carmen Amengual, Annabelle Aventurin, Alia Ayman, Concha Barquero, Petra Belc, Uliana Bychenkova, George Clark, Greg de Cuir Jr, Shai Heredia, Tobias Hering, Tom Holert, Katie Kirkland, Olexii Kuchanskyi, Brigitta Kuster, Dhianita Kusuma Pertiwi, Léa Morin, Tara Najd Ahmadi, Ojoboca, Uriel Orlow, Volker Pantenburg, Lisabona Rahman, Mathilde Rouxel, Bunga Siagian, Oleksandr Teliuk, Elena Vogman, Akbar Yumni
Editor Philip Widmann
Copyediting & Proofreading John Meakin
Image Design & Layoutarc-gestaltung
Printing & Binding
Europrint, Berlin
English ISBN 978-3-949973-32-1
Contributors
Alejandro Alvarado, Carmen Amengual, Annabelle Aventurin, Alia Ayman, Concha Barquero, Petra Belc, Uliana Bychenkova, George Clark, Greg de Cuir Jr, Shai Heredia, Tobias Hering, Tom Holert, Katie Kirkland, Olexii Kuchanskyi, Brigitta Kuster, Dhianita Kusuma Pertiwi, Léa Morin, Tara Najd Ahmadi, Ojoboca, Uriel Orlow, Volker Pantenburg, Lisabona Rahman, Mathilde Rouxel, Bunga Siagian, Oleksandr Teliuk, Elena Vogman, Akbar Yumni
Editor Philip Widmann
Copyediting & Proofreading John Meakin
Image Design & Layoutarc-gestaltung
Printing & Binding
Europrint, Berlin
English ISBN 978-3-949973-32-1
Lyric Poetry is Dead
by Ezequiel Zaidenwerg
Illustrated by Carmen Amengual
bilingual edition translated by Robin Myers
Art cover for Ezequiel Zaidenwerg’s Lyric Poetry is Dead, Cardboard House Press, 2018
“Sodom and Gomorrah”, drawing for Lyric Poetry is Dead, Cardboard House Press, 2018
