Crazy Fish Sing

Crazy Fish Sing (Rome: Yogurt Editions 2024) is a visual art book inspired by Suranga Katugampala’s film Still Here. Situated in an experimental territory on the border between noir and documentary, the film is shot in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Milan, Italy. Transporting the reader through its real, imagined, and affective geographies, Crazy Fish Sing offers a unique behind-the-scenes perspective on the making of Still Here and the questions this film raises about cultural hybridity, urbanization, and realism.

Publisher: Yogurt Editions

Hard cover 

228 pag

24,5 x 17,5 cm

Curator: S. Brioni

Book Design: Yogurt Agency

Art Director: F. Rombaldi

Graphic Design: M. Pallini

Translators: G. Bellesia Contuzzi, V. Offredi Poletto

Illustrators: M. Bertani, P. Hettiarachchi

Photographers: F. Allocca, S. Katugampala, M. Ronga, D. Spinazzola

Contributors: S. Katugampala, P. Benzi, M. Bertani, M. Binci, E. Bond, G. Chiscuzzu, f. dubosc, D. Duncan, A. Kodagoda, F. Pedroni, I. Perniola, L. Polezzi, P. Tennakoon

The project is made possible thanks to the support of the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture within the framework of the Italian Council (12th edition, 2023), the program for the international promotion of Italian contemporary art.

Promoted by Terzo Paesaggio

In collaboration with Kaiya Collective, 5e6film, Fondazione Pianoterra, Stony Brook University 

Longlisted for the 2025 Moving Image Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards. 

Related publications

 Introduction, "CRAZY FISH SING. 𝐴 𝑆𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑅𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 Still Here", Shanghai Literary Review 

Angelo Cioffi, "Visual Storytelling and Expanded Cinema: An Interview with Simone Brioni", Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies (2026 Forthcoming)

Presentations

25/03/2024  Bergen University, Norway
10/4 /2024 Concordia University, Canada
19/4/2024  Libreria Le Nuvole, Barcelona

23/4/2024  Stony Brook University, United States

24/4/2024  Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3, France

26/4/2024  École normale supérieure, Paris, France

29/4/2024  Monash University, Australia

30/4/2024  University of Sussex, United Kingdom

1/5/2024  University of Oxford, United Kingdom

3/5/2024  University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

6/5/2024  Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

17/5/2024  University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

7/6/2024  MUDEC, Milan, Italy

16/6/2024  Fondazione Pianoterra, Rome, Italy

21/6/2024  CARME, Brescia, Italy

2/7/2024  ICI Berlin, Germany. 

TBD/7/2024  Pathshala South Asian Media Institute, Bangladesh

10/7/2024 University of Visual and Performing Arts of Colombo, Sri Lanka