What happens when cinema leaves the theater and enters the gallery? Projected Realities explores the fertile terrain where contemporary art and moving image collide, tracing how artists have appropriated, dismantled, and reinvented the language of film to create works that unfold beyond the screen. With contributions by filmmakers, artists, and curators—including case studies from major exhibitions like Blockbuster—this book captures a moment when the boundaries between cinema and art are not just blurred but productively erased.

From Steve McQueen’s poetic minimalism to Hito Steyerl’s essayistic investigations, from the spatial montages of Isaac Julien to the immersive installations of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the artists featured here reframe film as a sculptural, spatial, and deeply conceptual medium. Whether looped, fragmented, or staged across multiple screens, moving images become tools to interrogate history, memory, and the politics of visibility.

In a world saturated with screens, Projected Realities asks: what is the future of film—not as industry, but as inquiry, as atmosphere, as art?