Fireflies Press

Independent publisher specialising in contemporary cinema.

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This week, our new book Ingrid Caven: I Am a Fiction lands on shelves! Get a copy at your local bookstore, or order one from our website.
https://t.co/eEHtC85XqE

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NBCC Emerging Critics Fellow @HannahB40843697 reviewed Christine Smallwood's "La Captive" for @hyperallergic: https://t.co/8qmyIsB8UX

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"A compelling close reading of what it means to be captivated and captured."

Lovely review of Christine Smallwood's book La Captive by @HannahB40843697 for @hyperallergic.

https://t.co/RwSvYQdBP7

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“Caven emerges as a bringer rather than a receiver of meanings, an active repository, perhaps, of all that she has experienced and absorbed.”

Terrific review of our Ingrid Caven book in the new @SightSoundmag

Get the book here: https://t.co/eEHtC85XqE

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Barcelona!

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💡Aquestes són les últimes incorporacions a la nostra secció de #cinema: 🎦

📖'Universos cercanos. Una mirada íntima de la ciencia ficción' de Celia Cuenca
👉https://t.co/7TrOJLUFSj

📖'Ingrid Caven: I am a fiction'
👉https://t.co/HrkGiyNa2y

#CCCB #LaieRecomana

[ᘻᓰᖽᐸᘿ 𝔹 @_RareArt]

Last day to catch these. It doesn't get any better than Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven! Only a total nitwit would skip seeing this 🚨MASTERPIECE🚨 on 35mm!

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NYC! Our weekend-long celebration of Ingrid Caven kicks off tonight @AnthologyFilm! Tomorrow, join us for a reception from 8:30pm, ahead of the 9:15 screening of Daniel Schmid's star Caven vehicle, the sublime La Paloma (1974) https://t.co/N0cpSePMt6

[The Daily @CriterionDaily]

“Nothing like the banal, ‘relatable’ celebrities of today, Ingrid Caven is a celestial creature of glorious artifice and terrible glamour: a rupture, a fantasy, a visitant.”

Erika Balsom from INGRID CAVEN: I AM FICTION (@firefliespress) @LAReviewofBooks — https://t.co/VtCzqwB8EM

[Notebook @mubinotebook]

"... Ingrid Caven is a celestial creature of glorious artifice and terrible glamour: a rupture, a fantasy, a visitant."

@LAReviewofBooks share a new essay by Erika Balsom, excerpted from @firefliespress's monograph “Ingrid Caven: I Am a Fiction." https://t.co/vvq7VMyqJV

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And if you're in New York or Los Angeles, don't miss these screenings of Caven's films:

Los Angeles: Now Instant, 6 Sep.
• Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)

New York: @AnthologyFilm, 13-15 Sep.
• La Paloma (1974)
• My Little Loves (1974)
• Mother Küsters (1975)

[Fireflies Press @firefliespress]

This week, our new book Ingrid Caven: I Am a Fiction lands on shelves! Get a copy at your local bookstore, or order one from our website.
https://t.co/eEHtC85XqE

[Fireflies Press @firefliespress]

As a special preview, you can read Erika Balsom’s terrific introduction, spanning Caven’s five-decade career, over @LAReviewofBooks
https://t.co/sfjTDqWHrJ

[Nirris @nireliofidelio]

for @asiancha: I wrote about the films of Hong Sang-soo and Dennis Lim's TALE OF CINEMA (@firefliespress)!

Dive in to get a sneak peek of A TRAVELLER'S NEEDS and a look into how it felt to read this spectacular work of criticism: https://t.co/GH9HK5SSWu

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Lovely, lengthy review of Dennis Lim’s book Tale of Cinema.

[Cha: An Asian Literary Journal @asiancha]

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] Nirris Nagendrarajah reviews Dennis Lim's 𝑇𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐶𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑎 (@firefliespress 2022): "Every film a sedulous sketch, a dazzling web, a prismatic gem to add to the continuum... Everyday life is enough: is everything." https://t.co/GBNJlKNRBx

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Ten years ago, we wheatpasted this poster all over Berlin and launched a scrappy film zine. A massive thank-you to all the filmmakers, writers and collaborators who joined us along the way, and to all our wonderful readers for getting us this far. Here’s to ten more years!

[The Daily @CriterionDaily]

Books! Elaine May, Susan Seidelman, Griffin Dunne, Neil Jordan, Robert Bresson, Chris Marker, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ian Christie … https://t.co/Ev2UwdkozA

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A new in-depth interview with Ingrid Caven conducted by Tsveta Dobreva and Cyril Neyrat

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Since @FIDMarseille starts next week, it’s time to reveal the new title in our joint monograph series One Two Many!

INGRID CAVEN: I AM A FICTION is now available for pre-order. Scroll below for a peak inside the book.
https://t.co/AM4WV0sv2j

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Photographs and other materials from Ingrid Caven’s personal archive