The Man Who Climbed Up the Stairs of Life and Found Out They Were Cinema Seats

Israeli artist and filmaker Keren Cytter joins the new wave of artists expanding their expression to the written word in the intriguing, pseudo-noir "novel" inspired by her films. Each of the seven chapters in writtein in a distinct style, brings together the grotesque and the absurb to narrate the life of her protagonists, artist Jeff Steinberg. The recurring motif of scrambled film reels adds a commentary on the malleability of the medium of film. A Cytter writes, "He lifts the bag that's dripping with small chunks of phlegm from the sides and says, Tomorrow at Christie's."