Jimmy Pantera - Cinéma ABC & Superpositions - 2020

Cinéma ABC

Number of pages: 299
Width: 19.0 cm
Height: 25.0 cm
Thickness: 1.7 cm
Illustrations: black-and-white and color illustrations
Weight: 864 g
Binding: Paperback
Publication date: 18/09/2020. Opened in Brussels in 1972 at the heart of the golden age of porn, a period sometimes nicknamed « the enchanted interlude », Cinéma ABC disappeared in 2013. Based in the heart of the capital, it was one of the last porn cinemas in the world to project films on 35 mm analogue film. Through the history of this cinema, the book paints a portrait of an outlaw underground world, a subject about which very few works have been published in French. Over its forty-one years of existence, the ABC became a kind of clandestine museum, filled with reels of celluloid, piles of posters and photos, overflowing with stacked boxes: a labyrinth of spaces haunted by unconfessed stories. In addition to an informed historical perspective, many testimonies from spectators who frequented it or worked there (strippers, projectionists...) have been gathered. The texts are richly illustrated with documents often rare, or even unpublished: exploitation photos, press clippings and promotional posters...

Superpositions, Private Collection of a Brussels porn cinema.

Testimony from the operator of the ABC porn cinema, active in Brussels between 1972 and 2013. Reflecting the use of images secretly censored in an artisanal and inventive way to advertise the films shown at his cinema, he shows how censorship can become an object of provocation and reflect the moral limits of an era.

Number of pages: 112
Width: 29.0 cm
Height: 23.0 cm
Thickness: 1.5 cm
Illustrations: black-and-white and color illustrations
Weight: 896 g
Binding: Hardcover
Publication date: 02/09/2021