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In his Covers series, the German animator Henning M Lederer envisions a world where classic book covers spring to spectacular and satisfyingly geometric life. Lederer’s third instalment, Even More Covers, features midcentury editions of philosophy, science and logic classics, including Plato’s Republic, Karl Popper’s The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934), and R D Laing’s The Divided Self (1960), alongside a wide array of textbooks. With appropriately minimalist music by Tilman Grundig to accompany the twisting and spinning of the sparse designs, the viewing experience is perhaps even easier to get lost in than a good read.
Video by Henning M Lederer
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Film and visual culture
Space and time expand, contract and combust in this propulsive animation
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Art
When East met West in the images of an overlooked, original photographer
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History
Hags, seductresses, feminist icons – how gender dynamics manifest in witches
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Earth science and climate
Images carved into film form a haunting elegy for a disappearing slice of Earth
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Nature and landscape
California’s landscapes provide endless inspiration for a woodcut printmaker
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Stories and literature
Two variants of a Hindu myth come alive in an animated ode to Indian storytelling
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Art
Background music was the radical invention of a trailblazing composer
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Metaphysics
What do past, present and future mean to a philosopher of time?
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Gender
A filmmaker responds to Lars von Trier’s call for a new muse with a unique application
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