YAMI
YAMI
DOCUMENTARY 01:24:33

Shadows of the Forbidden Archive

A journey through forbidden manuscripts and lost cinematic language

ESSAY FILM 00:43:07

The Amber Hour

On the quality of light in late pre-war European cinema

EXPERIMENTAL 02:11:44

Dissolution Study No. 7

Expanded cinema performance recorded at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 1983 — grain and silence as formal elements

SHORT 00:12:05

Vellum and Smoke

A silent study in material decay

ARCHIVE FILM 00:58:20

The Cartographer's Eye

Restored nitrate footage from a surveying expedition through the Caucasus, 1927 — the camera as instrument of documentation and possession

LECTURE 01:33:12

On the Grammar of Darkness

A seminar on shadow composition across four centuries

FOUND FOOTAGE 00:27:44

Nocturne in Brumal

Anonymous 16mm footage, provenance unknown

FRAGMENT 00:04:17

Reel 14-B

Orphaned excerpt

PERFORMANCE 01:07:52

Theatre of Memory

Documentation of Pina Bausch's lesser-known early works, reconstructed from notes

RESTORATION 00:88:00

Ink and Silver

Painstaking frame-by-frame restoration of a lost Symbolist film

ESSAY 00:51:39

The Unmade Film: Unrealized Projects 1960–1980

On the rich archive of films that exist only in proposals, correspondence, and the margins of notebooks — the cinema of intention

INTERVIEW 00:34:08

Conversations in the Dark

Last recorded talks with Werner Herzog, 2019

MASTERWORK

The Sepulchre of Light

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LANDMARK

Chronicle of Erosion

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ESSENTIAL

Night Language

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RARE

The Glassblower's Monologue

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DISCOVERY

Latent Atlas

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SÉANCE 00:22:48

Letters to Absent Directors

Correspondence read aloud against black

INSTALLATION 01:45:20

The Burning Library

Multi-screen video installation recorded at documenta 14 — fire as erasure, as memory, as renewal in the archive of civilization

ADAPTATION 00:47:30

Borges Without Words

A cinematic translation of labyrinths

STUDY 00:18:55

Copper Oxide Studies

Material investigations in patina and time