In his latest artist’s book, Yorgos Lanthimos further develops his inimitable
visual language and his rapidly growing body of photographic work with a
beguiling collection of still photographs made around the sets and locations of
his 2025 feature Bugonia. Shot spontaneously between takes, Lanthimos’s
photographs present a story untethered to the film and its narrative conventions
and once again he uses the possibilities of the book form to explore new modes
of storytelling. Moving between offbeat compositions, uncanny portraiture, and
evocative landscapes and reflections, Lanthimos weaves a tale of mystery and
illusion, death and renewal, imbued with the psychological intensity and eerie
modality characteristic of his work. The physical form of the publication
invokes the unspooling of a film reel, using an accordion or leporello fold to
create a sculptural object. The resulting sequence unfurls a narrative of
foreboding, violence, and rebirth, told through a progression of black-and-white
into colour imagery. VISCIN’s unique visuality sees Lanthimos draw on these
broad strands of his oeuvre to form a distinctive and enigmatic new world.
