The work of the Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Rosa Barba is distinguished by her conceptual exploration of film. In this publication she devises a progressive vision for the cinema of the future. Barba translates questions of composition and plasticity into precisely staged arrangements that open up new ways of looking at both the material and the conceptual conditions of the medium of film. Starting with Barba's artistic research, this volume deals with the concept of an anarchical organization of filmic spaces-a work principle that could shape a new way of thinking by destabilizing traditional cinematic structures. Through this, the author undertakes a journey to an imaginary political trope for today's cinema.

Alongside reproductions of films, sculptures and light works, this volume on Sicilian filmmaker Rosa Barba (born 1972) features the new 35mm film From Source to Poem (2016), in which hundreds of archival images evolve into a collage of America's cultural legacy.