The Last Book, written by Sabine Hillen (former researcher Theory), edited by Jacqueline Schoemaker (former researcher Design) and designed by Eva Moulaert (former researcher Design) and Marie Sledsens, tells the story of an object – a ‘book’ – that is passed on from one character to the next and succeeds in bringing characters together.

However, even if this ‘book’ achieves to influence the characters, it is also ‘the last book’, the only remaining medium that can ground common culture. The roads the characters take will soon separate and the importance of literature in their lives will become a highly personal matter.
It started out as a poetic exploration of the notion of the Muse, but The Last Book gradually evolved into a filmic composite. The collaboration of Eva Moulaert and Jacqueline Schoemaker generated a new way of writing in which images, space and time are closely related. While its makers decided to adopt the winding medium of the screenplay, The Last Book took the form of, indeed, a book, printed traces that can be turned into a film and play with the formats of new media. While the book still bears some anachronisms from literature, The Last Book refers to the zone of discomfort where readers disappear and print vanishes when popular media invade time and space. The design of Eva Moulart and Marie Sledsens has extended this play with novel and film script, literature and new media. The result of their work is an alienating form, an independent visual appendix, a project in which popular media overwhelm literary culture, in an almost passionate encounter.