Laura Waddington: Writings

Selected Writings

English

The Small, the Fragile, the Unfinished Voice.
Waddington, Laura. For the Avant-Garde Project initiated by Nicole Brenez, Paris, 2006 / Le cinéma critique: De l’argentique au numérique, voies et formes de l’objection visuelle, Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2010.
Scattered Truth part 1 (About My Childhood).
Waddington, Laura. In the PhD thesis by Bidhan Jacobs, Vers une esthétique du signal: Dynamiques du flou et libérations du code dans les arts filmiques (1990-2010). Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III, 2014.
Scattered Truth part 2a (New York, The Visitor, Zone, The Lost Days...).
Waddington, Laura. In response to questions posed by Bidhan Jacobs by email, 2014.
Scattered Truth, part 2b (Cargo, Border, the blur, new technology...).
Waddington, Laura. In response to questions posed by Bidhan Jacobs by email, 2014/2015.
On Mirrors and the Making of M’s Story.
Waddington, Laura. May 2024.

Excerpt One from The Iraqi Suitcase.
Waddington, Laura. The Iraqi Suitcase. (Upcoming publication.)
Excerpt Two from The Iraqi Suitcase.
Waddington, Laura. The Iraqi Suitcase. (Upcoming publication.)
Excerpt from M’s Story: Note to the Reader.
Waddington, Laura. M’s Story. (Upcoming publication.)

Small Gestures: On a Passage from Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story.
Waddington, Laura. Pre-recorded video address, projected on the occasion of The Anatomy of Ozu, BFI, Southbank, London, September 16, 2023.
Abdullah and the Fireflies: On Reading Georges Didi-Huberman’s Survivance des lucioles.
Waddington, Laura. La Rivista di Engramma, no. 84 (“Lucciole malgrado tutto,” special issue devoted to Georges Didi-Huberman), October 2010.
No Footsteps Remain: Letter to Mara Catalan.
Waddington, Laura. In the photo book Williamsburg: A Place I Once Called Home, by Mara Catalan. New York: Red Hook Editions, 2018.
Letter to My Father about The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello.
Waddington, Laura. La Furia Umana, paper issue no. 1, Ourense: Duen de Bux, January 2013.
On the Films I Saw in Isola.
Waddington, Laura. Invitation of Nika Bohinc. Ekran, Magazine for Film and Television Slovenia, 2007.
From Shadows and Mexican Skies: An Interview with Gabriel Figueroa.
Waddington, Laura, and Walter Rippel. Translated from the Spanish translation of the original interview. El Amante, El Amante Cine, no. 12, Buenos Aires, November 1992.

Letter to a Friend at the End of Her Life.
Waddington, Laura. May 2021.
For My Father.
Waddington, Laura. Read at Mortlake Crematorium, December 10, 2015.

French

Abdullah et les lucioles - à la lecture de Survivance des lucioles de Georges Didi-Huberman.
Waddington, Laura. Translated by Charlene Dinhut and Aude Tincelin. In Devant les images – Penser l’art et l’histoire avec Georges Didi-Huberman, edited by Thierry Davila and Pierre Sauvanet. Dijon: Les Presses du Réel, November 2011.
La voix petite, fragile, inachevée.
Waddington, Laura. Translated by Nicole Brenez. In Le cinéma critique: De l’argentique au numérique, voies et formes de l'objection visuelle, edited by Nicole Brenez and Bidhan Jacobs. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2010

Italian

Estratto da The Iraqi Suitcase.
Waddington, Laura. The Iraqi Suitcase. Translated by Andrea Sirotti (Upcoming publication.)

Spanish

Reportaje a Gabriel Figueroa: De sombras y cielos mexicanos.
Waddington, Laura, and Walter Rippel. Translated from the English by Walter Rippel. El Amante, El Amante Cine, no. 12, Buenos Aires, November 1992.
Querida Mara: No dejan huellas.
Waddington, Laura. Translated by Annuska Angulo. In the photo book Williamsburg: A Place I Once Called Home, by Mara Catalan. New York: Red Hook Editions, 2018: end booklet.