Att lämna biografen by Roland Barthes
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Roland Barthes’ “En sortant du cinéma” (English: “Leaving the Movie Theatre”; Swedish: “Att lämna biografen”) is a short essay about what happens after the film: the strange blend of dream, fatigue and reality when one steps out onto the street, while the film’s illusion still lingers in the memory, mind and body.
The design of the book draws inspiration from the film poster and the cinema’s projection, as well as from film’s—and the auditorium’s—fundamental dialectic between light and darkness. Everything is therefore printed in a graduated greyscale, which indirectly signals the typographical and editorial hierarchies of the book: the main text in white, the publisher’s name almost concealed, hidden in the black background. The folded format is a metaphor for the movement Barthes describes in the text: something is compressed and transformed and carried out, from a delimited space, the cinema, into a larger, wider one, the city.
Att lämna biografen was published by Andresson Örn in a limited edition of 100 numbered copies.
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