Art Metropole

#15965

100 Loglines

Artists

Fortner Anderson and Fabrizio Gilardino

Designer

Ellie de Lacy

Date

2024

Publisher

Wayward Cerebrations press

Format

Artists' Books

ISBN

978-2-9812857-6-8

Size

2.2 × 2.8 × 0.8 cm

Length

112 pp

Genre

Canadian, Film/Video, Creative Writing

The book contains 100 loglines. A logline is a one sentence encapsulation of the plot of a feature film. Each of the 100 original loglines in the book is for a different genre of film. These range from body horror to agitprop to romantic comedy with 97 more.

The book published as a 1:12 scale dollhouse book. It’s finished size is 2.75 × 2.2 × 0.75 cm.

The books have been handmade by the English producer of miniature books, Ellie de Lacy (www.elliedelacy.com). They are printed on 50 gsm Clairefontaine paper, and every book is leather bound with its own unique blind and gold stamping.

50 numbered and signed copies are available in this edition.

Artist and poet, Fortner Anderson is noted for the performance of his poems, his unique artist books and installations, and his formalist and experimental work to renew and expand poetic forms. His publications of poetry include reiterations (2022), an e-book whose content of 24 sonnets change with each reading, Considerations (2021) a formalist text in the form of a silver-age comic book, Points of Departure (2017) a book of poems encased in bronze, and annunciations (2012), a poetic re-interpretation of the final minutes of the space shuttle Columbia disaster.