Bibliography

Selected Book Extracts

Art for Coexistence. Unlearning the Way We See Migration by Christine Ross, publ. MIT Press, US 2022

Esthetique du signal. Hacker le filmique by Bidhan Jacobs, publ. Éditions Mimésis, France, 2022

Artivismo: Arte, politica, impegno by Vincenzo Trione, publ. EINAUDI, 2022 pp 71-72,185

Georges Didi-Huberman and Film: The Politics of the Image by Alison Smith, publ. Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 (chapter 4)

Refugios, la humanidad en tránsito (Escapada de tiempos y espejos by Javier Manero Rodicio) by Miguel Sánchez- Moñita, Tomás Zarza Núñez, publ.Fundación Anastasio de Gracia-Fitel, Madrid, 2020

Survival of the Fireflies by Georges Didi Huberman (2009), translated by Lia Swope Mitchell, publ. Univocal, University of Minnesota Press, 2018

Plasticités des violences politiques au début du XXIe siècle by Bidhan Jacobs in Un Art documentaire: enjeux esthétiques, politiques et éthiques (sous la direction de Aline Caillet et Frédéric Pouillaude) publ. Aesthetica, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, France 2017

Obraz-dzielenie. Laura Waddington in Migawki z tradycji uciśnionych by Paweł Mościcki, publ. Biblioteka Le Monde Diplomatique, Bydgoszcz-Warszawa, Poland, 2017, pp 187-223

Making a Documentary in the Dark in Documentary Voice & Vision: A Creative Approach to Non-Fiction Media Production by Kelly Anderson & Martin Lucas, publ. Focal Press, New York and London, 2016, pp198

Oltre la rappresentazione, dentro la vita in Border di Laura Waddington in Videoestetiche dell’emergenza: L’immagine della crisi nella sperimentazione audiovisiva by Elena Marcheschi, publ. Edizioni Kaplan, Torino, Italy 2015, pp 78, 89-92

Gardens of the Moon; The Modern Cine Nocturne by Scott MacDonald in Technology and the Garden (ed, by Michael G. Lee and Kenneth I Helphand) publ. Dumbarton Oaks, US, 2014

Subjektivität und Selbstreflexion; Drei Formen von »Film-Ichs« by Eva Kuhn in Im Netz der Eindeutigkeiten: Unbestimmte Figuren und die Irritation von Identität (ed. by Michael Andres, Natascha Frankenberg) publ. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany, p89-104

Frammenti di cinema resistente in “IMMAGINAZIONI: Riscritture e ibridazioni fra teatro e cinema” by Stefania Rimini, publ. Bonanno Editore, Gruppo Editoriale s.r.l. Acireale, Roma, Italy 2012, pp 195-199

Border: The Videographic Traces by Laura Waddington as a Cinematographic Memorial by Eva Kuhn in Images of Illegalized Immigration. Towards a Critical Iconolgy of Politics, publ. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany 2010, pp129-141


Survivance des lucioles by Georges Didi-Huberman, publ. Éditions de Minuit, Paris, France, 2009, pp 134- 138

Figurants by Georges Didi-Huberman in “Dictionnaire Mondial des Images”, publ. Nouveau Monde Editions, Paris, France 2006, pp 400

Ohne DV Ware Meine Arbeit Gar Nicht Denkbar: an interview with Laura Waddington by Peter Kremski in the book “Überraschende Begegnungen der kurzen Art”, publ. Schnitt – der Filmverlag, May 2005, Germany, pp87-107

Selected Articles

Entre travessias e escuridão: notas sobre os espectros (i)migrantes em Border By Ricardo Lessa Filho and Frederico Vieira, OGOS 52 VOL 27 N 01 DOSSIÊ INSTABILIDADE E CONFLITO DAS/NAS IMAGENS, Brazil, 2019

Panorama: Tres Cortometrajes de Laura Waddington José Sarmiento Hinojosa, Desistfilm, Online Film Journal, 2019

Sobre Border de Laura Waddington by Guilherme Gontijo Flores, Coletivo Praxis, Brazil, 2018

The Image as Common Good: on Laura Waddington’s Border by Paweł Mościcki in Widok. Teorie i praktyki kultury wizualnej14, 2016, publ. Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences Institute of Polish Culture, University of Warsaw, Foundation for Visual Culture, Poland

Betwixt and Between: Displacement and Liminality in Laura Waddington’s Border by Marion Hohlfeldt in Interventions Journal, Volume 02, Issue 01: Borders and the Global Contemporary, January 2013, New York


Matière de Frontière / Frontière de la Matière: Border de Laura Waddington et No Border de Sylvain George Episode I, 2, 3 by Chloe Belloc in La Furia Umana, n° 9, summer 2011/ n° 10, autumn 2011/ n° 11, winter 2012

Suspicious Images: Iconophobia and the Ethical Gaze by Chari Larsson in “M/C Journal, Vol. 15, No. 1, “Suspicion”, 2012, Australia

Na granicach widzialnos ́ci [On the Borders of Visibility] by Pawel Moscicki in Krytyka Polityczna/ Political Critique, nr 24-25, 2010,” Poland pp. 49-58

Frammenti di cinema resistente by Stefania Rimini in Engramma; Issue 84 “Lucciole malgrado tutto, Italy, October 2010


Stirring Things Up: The 2008 Flaherty Seminar by Hariette Yahr, in DOX Magazine Issue no.80, Denmark, January 2009

Laura Waddington: La caméra clandestine by Mathilde Blottière et Laurent Rigoulet in “Télérama,” Paris du 4 au 10 février 2006 No 2925

Border by Fabrice Marquat in “Bref – le magazine du court métrage” Paris, Juillet-août 2006, No 73

Pesaro 2005 – skakanje na glavo by Jurij Meden in Kinoplus, Slovenia 2005


”Too much beauty” Oberhausen 2005: Filmische “Grenzüberschrei tungen” mit Laura Waddington by Oliver Rahayel in Film Dienst magazine, Germany, April 28, 2005

Sangatte, frontiera del mondo by Federica Sossi in “JGcinema.org, Cinema e Globalizzazione” www.jgcinema.org, Italy, February 2005


La sereine colère de Laura Waddington by Eric Chauveau, in Sud Ouest, France, March 18th, 2005

Border Free Zone by Thomas Morelli in Sextant Magazine, France December 2005


Running with the Refugees by James Drew in The Bulletin, Brussels, November 18th, 2004

Caméras Libres by Philippe Azoury in Liberation, Paris, August 11, 2004


Lac mineur, 57e festival de Locarno by Bertrand Loutte in Les Inrockuptibles, no 456
, Paris, August 25 au 31, 2004

The nightmare of Sangatte by Geoffrey Macnab in Pardo News, Switzerland, ed. No 5, August 8, 2004


Les yeux de Laura by Olivier Nicklaus in Les Inrockuptibles, no394, Paris, 18 June 2003

Streifenweise by Maya Mckechneay in Falter, Vienna, edition 20/02
, May 2002

Shorts Circuit by Gareth Evans in Sight and Sound, London, July 2002

Selected Festival and Exhibition Catalogue Essays

Interview with curator Pedro Mota Tavares about Border, for the site Politics & Poetry, European Foundation Joris Ivens, Netherlands, 2016

Demain vous n’y Penserez Plus by Marion Hohlfeldt, Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes, France 2010

Highway, Road, Bus, Embankment. About Laura Waddington’s Film “Border” by Mari Laanemets, Crime and Punishment, Kunsthalle Tallinn, Estonia, 2007

Laura Waddington, Border by Fiona Trigg, Turbulence, The 3rd Auckland Triennial Catalogue, New Zealand, 2007

The Days and Years of My Travels by Olaf Möller, The 51st Pesaro Film Festival Catalogue, Italy, 2005

The Pain of Seeing: The Videos of Laura Waddington by Bouchra Khalili, The 51st Oberhausen Short Film Festival Catalogue, Germany, 2005

Border by Antoni Collot, Manéci, Le Journal des Ecrans Documentaires 1, France, 2005

In Person: Laura Waddington Flyer , Austrian Film Museum, Sixpack Film, Vienna, Austria 2002

CARGO by Christel Vesters, WWVF Catalogue, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2001

The Lost Days by Teddi Dols, WWVF Catalogue, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2000

Selected Writings by Laura Waddington

Scattered Truth, 2014 (upcoming publication)

Letter to Mara Catalan, February 2013, for the photography book “Williamsburg: A place I Once Called home” by Mara Catalan, publ. Red Hook Editions, NY, 2018

Letter to my father about “The Battle of San Romano” by Paolo Uccello in La Furia Umana, Paper no. 1, January 2013, publ. Duen de Bux, Spain, pp57-59

Abdullah et les lucioles – à la lecture de Survivance des Lucioles de Georges Didi Huberman in the book, Devant Les Images – Penser l’art et l’histoire avec Georges Didi-Huberman, publ. Les Presses du Réel, France, 2012


10 Favourite Films for the Sight & Sound Directors’ Greatest Films Poll 2012 in Sight & Sound Film Magazine, BFI, London, UK, 2012


Abdullah and the Fireflies: On reading Georges Didi Huberman’s “Survivance des Lucioles in Engramma; Issue 84 “Lucciole malgrado tutto”, Italy, October 2010

La Voix Petite, Fragile, Inachevée in the book Le cinéma critique, de l’argentique au numérique, voies et formes de l’objection visuelle (ed.Nicole Brenez & Bidhan Jacobs) publ. Publications de la Sorbonne, France 2010, pp81-82

On the films I saw in Isola in Ekran Magazine, Slovenia, 2007

The small, the fragile, the unfinished voice: Letter to Nicole Brenez (2006)

Selected Print Interviews

Accidents of Material and Chance: A Conversation with Laura Waddington by Pamela Cohn, Non Fiction Journal Issue 01: Power, 2020, UK

Interview: Laura Waddington by Saskia Walker, Revolver Magazine, No17, 2007 Berlin

Interview with Laura Waddington by Olaf Möller, The 51st Pesaro International Film Festival Catalogue, Italy June 2005


The Two speeds Frontera, Interview by Filippo Del Lucchese, JGcinema.org, Italy, February 2005

Laura Waddington: La Vidéaste de l’errance. Interview by Pascal Mieszala, Plan Rapproché 100, Apcvl, France, December 2005


Smash the Border. Interview by Cedric Eltimich, Web Reporters, Brussels,Nov 2004

Selected Theses, Conference and University papers

Visual Gaps : Low Definition for an ethics of bearing witness Cecilia Bima, Università Iuav di Venezia Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Arti Visive Dipartimento di Culture del Progetto, Italy 2020

Suspicious Images: Iconoclasm and the Prohibition of Representation by Chari Larsson, Conference University of Queensland, Australia 2010

Border/No Border. A la croisée de deux regards. Un mémoire de Chloe Belloc, Paris 2010 (50 pag.)

Border: The Videographic Traces by Laura Waddington as a Cinematographic Memorial by Eva Kuhn, Images of Illegalized Immigration, Basel University, Switzerland, 2009

Border – ein filmisches Gedenken oderDie videografischen Spuren von Laura Waddington by Eva Kuhn Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät der Universität Basel Kunsthistorisches Seminar, 2006, Switzerland(110 pag.)


Selected Radio Interviews

Interview by Arnaud Laporte, Multipistes, l’hebdo Coté Court. France Culture, 5th April, 2005

Interview by Sonia Brunet, Attitudes, France Bleu, La Rochelle, France 16th March, 2005

Lumière d’août en direct du Festival de Locarno (2), France Culture, 10th August 2004


Smash the Border, Interview by Cedric Eltimich, Web Reporters, Botanique, Brussels, 25th November, 2004

Interview by Alan Chabaux, Radio Campus Brussels, 23rd November, 2004

Selected TV Interviews

Vertigo News (at the Pesaro film festival), RAISAT CINEMA WORLD, Italy, July 6/7 2005


Kuhinja, BHT1 Television, Sarajevo, Bosnia, (in Zagreb, Croatia) November 18, 2004


Rencontres Courtes et Suprenantes by Peter Kremski, ARTE Television, France/Germany, April 2004

Forty years after the Manifesto by Achim Forst, ZDF/3Sat, May 2002

Kurzchluss/Court Circuit, ARTE Television, France/Germany, June 2003

Selected Podcasts

De l’art vidéo aux œuvres contemporaines – discussion of “Border” with extracts, chosen by Catherine Millet for round table on the occasion of the 40th birthday of Art Press magazine, Entrevues, Belfort, France, 2012 http://www.mediapart.fr/files/audio/Belfort5-2.mp3
 (Border: 33 mins – 52 mins)

Evelyne Didi nous lit…4/5 – Evelyne Didi reads passage about “Border” in “Survivance des Lucioles” by Georges Didi-Huberman, in “Je déballe ma bibliotheque”, France Culture, 25 October 2012
http://www.franceculture.fr/emission-je-deballe-ma-bibliotheque-evelyne-didi-nous-lit-45-2012-10- 25

Ni ici ni ailleurs – liminalité et formes de déplacement dans l’œuvre vidéo de Maja Bajevic et Laura Waddington, lecture by Marion Hohlfeldt for the journée d’études “Comment l’art déjoue les frontières invisibles”, Université Rennes 2, France, 23rd April 2012
http://wikiradio.ueb.eu/tag/Laura%20Waddington