Anri Sala, one of the most gifted and accomplished visual artists of his generation, was born in Albania and lives and works in Berlin. Michael Fried first encountered Anri Sala's video, film and installation art in 2005, through his video Long Sorrow, and has been following his work since. This collection of essays focuses on what Fried identifies as a few major and recurring themes in Sala's work, such as the independence of the image and sound tracks, the treatment of absorption, and the overarching issues of anti-theatricality and presentness. Throughout the book, which is illustrated with numerous colour stills from Anri Sala's videos, Fried pursues a highly personal approach of combining extremely fine-grained structural and thematic readings of individual works with philosophical and theoretical reflections often drawing on the texts of major thinkers in the Western philosophical tradition.