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Marc Lafia 
Marc Lafia Marc's work explores the histories of the photographic, cinema, embodied space and the event of art as they are remade in network and social media to...
InstaScapes 
InstaScapes Instascapes are lightweight sculptural transparencies mimicking camera filters. they are designed to be social and playful, produced at varying...
Eternal Sunshine 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 an...
Empires 
Empires Synopsis The film and online project brings together international philosophers, scientists, artists and business leaders to give description and analysis...
Double Fantasy 
Double Fantasy As part of the Cinema Series we've sent to Shanghai Double Fantasy, 18 min with Jia Hongsheng, John Lennon, Jean Luc Godard, The Beatles, and the...
Love and Art 
Love and Art 2006 SYNOPSIS 'Love and art'- Fictional Documentary/Biography Part diary, part documentary, part tragic tale, this film follows a couple from Park...
Harry, Zelda and Antoinette 
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 or...
Confessions Of An Image 
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 
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 
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, doubling...
Cinema :01 
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 side...
Computations 
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 my...
Permutations 
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 
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...
Cinema Engine 
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 tableaux...
New Media Works 
Though this site focuses on films, here are select net art pieces, computational films, conceptual and photographic works. Cyberia, 1994...
This Moment, Social Media 
This Moment Already Always Recording In these works I explore public platforms for communication and social networks through an aesthetic and conceptual lens....
Project Proposals 
On this page are projects in different stages of collaboration and development The Infinities of the Universe Marc Lafia, Federico Ciacci, Francesco Snoriguzzi ...
Editions 
Editions Though this site focuses on films, there a good many artworks including photographs, installations, net art pieces, works on paper, performance works...
Posts 
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 followed...
Sites 
Though this site is mostly concerned with films and installations, these other sites include earlier works in photography, drawing, performance and the network. ...
Production Journal  
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 alone...