Marc Lafia Marc's work in print, installation, video and performance, reconsiders varied histories of art, photography and cinema and the embodied space and...

An Anatomy of Pictures What is an anatomy? And what could be an anatomy of pictures? Early images were drawn on cave walls, sculpted as statuary, handmade...

The Tumblr Room In these works, I want to capture something all too extraordinarily familiar but made material and public in large scale photography something...

Here and Elsewhere, Class of 2012 Shanghai Here and Elsewhere Shanghai Theatre Academy, Class of 2012 When I was asked by the Shanghai Theatre Academy to do...

Cinema Engine The cinema engine is a new kind of projector written in software. Here films are made from files. There is no shot reverse shot, there are...

This Moment Already Always Recording In these works I explore public platforms for communication and social networks through an aesthetic and conceptual...

Though this site focuses on films, here are select net art pieces, computational films, conceptual and photographic works. Cyberia,...

Cinema Series Cinema is an ongoing limited edition dvd series where clips from films are paired as 'double features'. But in this case the films play side by...

Eternal Sunshine, 2011-2012 In Eternal Sunshine at the Minsheng Museum of Art, Shanghai, Marc Lafia in his solo show presents a series of works that reflect...

Hi How Are You Guest 10497, 2011 'Hi How Are You Guest 10497'; in this video work, a woman, living alone in Manhattan, tries to find a way out of her solitude...

Revolution of Everyday Life Two young women meet in an explosive and highly emotional love story where love, art and revolution ignite. In this film 9 women...

Paradise, 2009 HD Feature and Installation SYNOPSIS: A group of theater students get together in the park to discuss 'fiction and the real.' Soon, through a...

Raindrop Ecstasy 3 Screen Installation, 8:17min On a New York City rainy night, four young people find themselves quietly in search, against the obvious, for...

Empires Synopsis The film and online project brings together international philosophers, scientists and artists to give description and analysis to the...

Double Fantasy Double Fantasy, an18 min dyptych with Jia Hongsheng, John Lennon, Jean Luc Godard, The Beatles, and the students of Tiananmen premiered at The...

Love and Art 2006 SYNOPSIS 'Love and art'- Fictional Documentary/Biography Part diary, part documentary, part tragic tale, this film follows a couple from...

Harry, Zelda and Antoinette, 2005 The work consists of six parts, each composed of some twelve to twenty multi-screen films. You can see it here not composed...

Confessions of an Image, 2001(Video, 47 min, SF screening, Atlantic Center for the Arts) A visual essay about the image, cinema and imaging. The 21 confessions...

Exploding Oedipus, 2000(35M, 87 min, varied festivals) SYNOPSIS The struggles of a young man struck by bohemia, in pain, curious, yearning, sexually,...

My Double My Self A man and a woman, husband and wife, their parents, and their children are closely and intimately observed as these two films unfold,...

Computations These computational films are as much works of generative sound as they are of algorithmic image. It was for me a new way to do films, to work with...

Permutations For a year I made a small film everyday, called, Permutations. These were every day recording of life. Some stills below. Cinema is identical to...

The Image Itself Is it possible that every image has a double? The one seen and the one unseen. In fact, is every image the image seen twice and then infinitely...

InstaScapes Instascapes are lightweight sculptural transparencies mimicking camera filters. they are designed to be social and playful, produced at varying...

On this page are projects in different stages of collaboration and development The Infinities of the Universe Marc Lafia, Federico Ciacci, Francesco Snoriguzzi...

Editions Though this site focuses on films, there a good many artworks including photographs, installations, net art pieces, works on paper, performance works...

Mise En Scene Of The Multiple All writing, all media is a relation with its inscription material. For the most part cinema has been constrained to shot...

Though this site is mostly concerned with films and installations, these other sites include earlier works in photography, drawing, performance and the...

Sept 10, 2011 'Hi How Are You Guest 10497', an 87min film and part of a larger network project including a 22 hour installation is a story of a woman, living...

Participation marc lafia (read through Lygia Clarke, Claire Bishop, Relational Aesthetics, Precariousness, Hal Foster, Giorgio Agamben, and Brian...