Tesla - All My Dreams Are True

Tesla jolts and flows between the extraordinary life of the inventor Nikola Tesla, the making of a feature film about him by the celebrated director Michael Almereyda, and episodes from the filmmaker's own restless, quixotic career. In these pages, we encounter Tesla's colleagues and friends intermingling with Almereyda's collaborators and influences: Thomas Edison and David Lynch, Mark Twain and Sam Shepard, Sarah Bernhardt and Ethan Hawke, J.P. Morgan and Orson Welles. A rich array of illustrations - vintage and personal photographs, film stills, drawings and comic-book art - enhance the sense of time travel and parallel histories, as we read of a scheme to transmit wireless energy through the earth, of the electrocution of an elephant, of fortunes made and surrendered, and of the obsessions that propel a scientist seeking to transform the world and a director seeking to make a movie.

About the author

Michael Almereyda has written and directed fourteen feature films, most recently Cymbeline, Experimenter, Marjorie Prime, Escapes, and Tesla. He has edited and contributed essays for books on Vladimir Mayakovsky, William Eggleston, Manny Farber, and Garry Winogrand.

Foreword

Reviews likely: Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Artforum, Cineaste, Sight & Sound, Frieze, Filmmaker, Film Comment, Reverse Shot, The Village Voice, CounterPunch, The Outline, n+1

Interviews likely: Interview, BOMB, Cineaste, Sight & Sound, Filmmaker, Film Comment, Reverse Shot

Excerpts likely: Cineaste, The Baffler, 4Columns, Filmmaker

Book launch/film screening at Roxy Cinema in New York

Product details

• Authors: Michael Almereyda, Almereyda Michael
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2022
• EAN: 9781682192825
• ISBN: 978-1-68219-282-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Illustrations: B&W illustrations throughout
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, Memoirs, ART / Film & Video, Films, cinema, Inventions and inventors, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Individual Film Directors, Film-Makers, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Direction & Production