In an unpublished 16-page interview conducted in New York in 2002, Jonas Mekas reflects on the role of film criticism, the origins of American experimental cinema, the Filmmakers’ Cooperative and Anthology Film Archives, while discussing Hollywood and figures such as Woody Allen and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

He also discusses the practice of diary filmmaking, poetry, the preservation and distribution of films and the future of Super 8 and moving images in the early days of the internet.

Julien Langendorff reflects on nearly two decades of collage-making, tracing a practice built from found images, chance encounters, tears, and fragments. From Rauschenberg to Godard, he speaks about his influences, his fascination with chance, and the transformative power of juxtaposition. An intimate conversation about an instinctive, resolutely analog practice shaped by appropriation, montage, and abstraction.

objet trouvé is a bilingual independent artist magazine devoted to visual arts, experimental cinema, photography and video art.

objet trouvé is a publication that lies at the intersection of the artist’s journal, the photobook, and the fanzine. It connects practices and artistic paths that rarely coexist in the same space, without any hierarchy of status or discipline.

The journal gives central prominence to the artists’ voices through in-depth interviews focused on their works, their creative gestures, and their production processes. Interviews with established artists and emerging voices feature side by side, bringing together film, photography, video, collage, and visual arts.

Founded in France, objet trouvé is conceived as a collectible, carefully produced object, published independently and distributed through selected bookstores, galleries and art institutions.

Editorial approach

1. Conversations and unpublished material: objet trouvé brings together rare interviews, unpublished conversations, archival material, photographs and documents, creating encounters between artists and different generations of image-makers.

2. Crossing disciplines: The magazine moves freely between photography, experimental film, collage, video and visual arts. Rather than separating these practices, objet trouvé looks at the connections between them and at the ways artists move from one medium to another.

3. A printed object: objet trouvé is conceived as more than a vehicle for content. Each issue is a physical object, carefully designed, printed and assembled. The magazine is produced in limited editions, with attention given to paper, format, printing and binding. Each copy is part of a series: something to hold, keep, collect and return to.

4. Made by hand, one copy at a time: The physical character of the magazine is central to the project. Copies are printed and finished individually, then bound by hand. This process gives each issue a tangible, almost tactile quality, while keeping the publication rooted in the tradition of small-scale independent publishing. The result is deliberately closer to a collectible artist's publication than to a conventional periodical.

5. An international perspective: objet trouvé brings together artists and contributors from different generations, countries and artistic backgrounds. Published in French and English from Issue 2 onwards, the magazine seeks to create connections between local and international art scenes, independent publishing networks and different approaches to the image.

Distribution / existing network

Selected stockists (+ online sales at www.objet-trouve.art)

France

Paris
Jeu de Paume · MEP · Delpire · Re:voir · Film Gallery · Light Cone · 0fr · Le monte-en-l’air · Librairie Sans titre · Galerie Polka

Toulouse

Ombres blanches

Arles

Librairie du Palais

Belgium

Saint-Martin Bookstore (Bruxelles)

Copyright (Ghent)

Spain

Finestres · Terranova (Barcelona) ·

Germany

Motto Books (Berlin)

Switzerland

Humus (Lausanne)

Italie

Leporello (Rome)

United States

Mast Books · Filmmaker’s Coop (New York)

Publisher
L’image manquante (France)

Website
objet-trouve.art

Instagram
@objet_trouve

Contact
revue.objet.trouve@gmail.com