Edition Zip is a publishing platform and archive for essay films. Its focus lies on the author’s film texts, whih guide the audiences as a voice-over throughout the film.

Essay films convey the most personal and free storytelling in film. Hence, Edition Zip wishes to enlarge its audience by adding readers to it. The selected film texts, which are pictorial, poetic and narrative at the same time, address a readership that goes beyond the usual cinephile. The geographic focus of each edition furthermore reaches out to readers interested in social, political and cultural contexts of the filmmakers. Edition Zip publishes in original language and English or German translation in order to bring those narratives across geographic borders.