FACES
MOUNTAINS WITH SUBTITLES
ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT FILMS
I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE
THE ENDLESS SUMMER
FIGHTING
THE FRENCH CONNECTION
VARGTIMMEN
CONTE DE PRINTEMPS
Cover
THIS IS A BOOK OF 11 DRAWINGS AND
1 TINTED CLOSE-UP OF SCREENSHOTS
OF FIGHTING SCENES IN FILMS

36 PAGES, 8.25 X 5.75" (A5)
FIRST EDITION 2009
SOLD OUT
A FEW REMAINING COPIES AT MOTTO BERLIN
AND ONLINE AT HALF LETTER PRESS

ABOUT THE BOOK

Based on films of various eras and genres (from La Strada to The Bourne Supremacy), this series of drawings coalesces into one continuous, book-length/five-decade-long fighting scene. The zine’s drawings of man-on-man fighting are based on film frames from The Wild One (Laslo Benedek, 1953) with Marlon Brando as a motorcycle gang leader, Fellini’s La Strada (with Anthony Quinn as the Great Zampano, 1954), East of Eden (with James Dean, by Elia Kazan, 1954), the spaghetti western Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966), the headbanger mockumentary Fubar (Michael Dowse, 2002), and the slick action movie The Bourne Supremacy (Paul Greengrass, 2004).

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By imposing a uniform color scheme and omitting the original scenes’ backgrounds, the initially diverse imagery gains narrative cohesion. At the same time, the anonymous protagonists in their voided locations create an iconography of fighting that ranges from troubled men’s awkward shoving (Fubar) and clumsy fist fights (La Strada, The Wild One) through emotional, violent outbursts (East of Eden) and brute macho aggression (Django) to the precision of Matt Damon’s man-as-weapon in The Bourne Supremacy. Arranged in a non-chronological, non-hierarchical order, the drawings create a subjective iconographic compendium of male aggression, as well as a narrative of pure action; the whole story is about nothing but fighting, and fighting alone.
6+7
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8+9
PAGES 8 AND 9
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