I For Idiot

Mauricio Guillén

• Other Authors Benoit Turquety (Contributor), Michael Oppitz (Contributor), Bojana Kunst (Contributor)
• Title

  I For Idiot

• Date 2012
• ISBN 9783943514070
• Publisher Berlin, Germany: Bom Dia Bom Tarde Bom Noite
• Description 96 p; 9.5 in; b/w and color ill.
• Language English
• Collections Permanent Collection, Dan Fox Collection
• Summary

  Artist's book based on a film by Mauricio Guillén (with three essays and the facsimile of a comic strip). I For Idiot functions as an extension of the film "Avenida Progreso" in the sense that it assembles three different perspectives: a philosopher's, an ethnologist's and a film theorist's, and juxtaposes these with some of the external layers of reality that have in one way or another informed the film. The purpose of this exercise, is to further consider the potential of dialectic time as a tool for collapsing linear narratives and analyzing the relation between speed, history and the distribution of knowledge in information based societies (Les Presses du Réel).

• Tags Film and Film Studies, Mexican art -- 21st century, Artist’s book