Tilda Swinton s first book of film works takes readers behind the scenes on some of her most iconic roles. Using as a starting point the artistic collaborations that helped shape her singular presence, from projects with Derek Jarman to Luca Guadagnino, the book will explore Swinton s autobiography. Swinton pushes the boundaries of the sometimes-limited role of the actor, inviting visitors on a sensory journey that celebrates co-creation, the synergy between director and actor, and the influence of various art forms. This project pays tribute to the spirit of renewal through connectivity that has defined Swinton s remarkable career.

"the actress shares her notes for radical living, from dancing daily to looking beyond the binary" — The AnOther UK

"...a reflection on a life lived creatively and an homage to friends past and present." — Wallpaper Magazine

"While Swinton’s decades-long cinematic legacy spans avant-garde performance, artistic cinema, blockbusters, and couture mythmaking, Ongoing focuses on the lifelong creative relationships that form her process. Eight artists have created new work or re-imagined existing work for the exhibition: Pedro Almodóvar, Luca Guadagnino, Joanna Hogg, Derek Jarman, Jim Jarmusch, Olivier Saillard, Tim Walker, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul...Swinton herself frames the show as a reckoning with “forty years” of making—and the ongoing thread of creative fellowship that has nourished her. “The perpetual seedbed,” she calls it." — L'Officiel USA

"Swinton herself earlier this year described the exhibition as an opportunity “to reflect on the mechanics of my working practice over the past 40 years. And to come to rest on the – ever-present – bedrock and battery of the close fellowships I found from the very first and continue to rely upon to this day." — The Hollywood Reporter

"Ongoing is a retrospective of Swinton’s roles in films like Orlando, Suspiria, and The Room Next Door; her relationships with directors like Derek Jarman and Luca Guadagnino and iconic fashion editorials shot by Tim Walker...While both the show and book are populated with striking images from her career, she insisted neither project is driven by nostalgia. "It's the relationships that go on and on and aren't done, that are living conversations and living relationships," she says." — WSJ Magazine

"...the genesis of the book is it's the companion to a show at a very great film museum in Amsterdam called Eye...I figured out that what is emblematic of my working practice for 40 years...is fellowship, is companionship." — Tilda Swinton for PBS TV/Christiane Amanpour Show

"A vivid meditation on transformation and artistic symbiosis, this richly tactile volume traces Tilda Swinton’s singular presence across cinema, fashion, and art through images, dialogues, and archival ephemera. From Derek Jarman to Bong Joon Ho, she emerges less as muse than co-creator, reshaping the actor’s role through daring collaborations. With stills from Orlando, Suspiria, Only Lovers Left Alive, and more, the book is as visually inventive as its subject—printed on four paper stocks and acetate, and layered with essays, correspondence, and revelatory conversations." — INDULGE

Vincent van Velsen is Head of Exhibitions at Eye Filmmuseum and previously served as Curator of Contemporary Art and Photography at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, where he curated solo exhibitions of Anne Imhof and Nan Goldin. Joanna Hogg is a British director and screenwriter.