Anarene

Anarene is a book that will appeal to a film and photography lover's sensitivity to light and storytelling. An eight-year photographic artistic project that reveals powerful colour and solitude in the US' true backyard.

Mikel Bastida's imagery revives the cult film industry in photographs. In the spirit of referencing the ghost town in Archer County, Texas, portrayed in Peter Bogdanovich's film adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel The Last Picture Show, the author travelled the country looking for images and stories that cinema left behind.

The photographs show us the America battered by the story: a land consumed by its own myth, landscapes that become a chronicle of the power of cinema, images of images that tell us about places that do not matter for what they are but for what they have represented. Includes 3 inserts.