<i>Thinking in Film </i>sweeps aside disciplinary convention to uncover a whole new way of thinking about thought. Turning the form of the artist monograph inside out, Mieke Bal brilliantly derives from the work of Eija-Liisa Ahtila the most replete account yet of the process by which ideas are actualized in the medium of the moving image.

Professor Jill Bennett, founding director of the National Institute for Experimental Arts & Associate Dean of Research, COFA, University of New South Wales, Australia

<i>Thinking in Film </i>is the most compelling analysis of Eija-Liisa Ahtila's art to date. It is a contribution to thinking by extending the ideas of what is presentable, perceivable and thus knowable. Mieke Bal draws from the constitutive conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of audio-visual installation art and gallery film but, importantly, develops her thinking further through a close analysis of the artworks. Bal shows how viewers are affected by the audio-visual realm but also left space to exert their own agency. The book demonstrates how art matters as a critical practice that has wider socio-cultural and political relevance.

Mia Hannula, Art Historian and Scholar, University of Turku, Finland

The breadth and scale with which she builds her analysis is overwhelming. Rarely have I come across such a minute and sensuous reading of this art form.

Nalini Malani has been a pioneer in Indian video art since the early 1990s; her multi-layered theatrical installations are characterized by a distinctly poetic approach, and originate in narratives drawn from international zones of conflict.