Emma Peel: bottes de cuir contre chapeau melon

Les Impressions Nouvelles, collection « La fabrique des héros », 2023, 104 pp.

A study of Emma Peel — the character created for The Avengers (1965–68) and embodied by Diana Rigg — as a singular icon of 1960s pop culture: the swinging London aesthetic, the martial arts influence, the mod fashion moment, and the lasting cultural afterlife of a figure who crystallized an era.

L’Aventure du corps dans le cinéma japonais Accompanying book, Nikkatsu Roman Porno box set, Éléphant Films, 2019

A critical essay written to accompany the French DVD/Blu-ray release of a selection of Nikkatsu Roman Porno films — the celebrated genre produced by Nikkatsu studio from 1971 to 1988. Situates the Roman Porno cycle within the broader history of Japanese cinema and the culture of the body it both reflected and contested.

Akino Kondoh, sous la jupe le frémissement Derrière la salle de bains, 2013

A study of the Tokyo-based artist and animator Akino Kondoh, whose practice moves between drawing, painting, and animation, and whose work explores dark, introspective visions of femininity and childhood.

Surfing the Medium Chimaera Monographe No. 10, Centre International de Création Vidéo Montbéliard, 1992

A monograph on Gary Hill, written during the period of Sarrazin’s work as artistic and editorial advisor at CICV. One of the most detailed early studies of Hill’s video installations, drawing on extensive interviews and close readings of key works. Remains a reference in the Hill bibliography.

I Believe It Is an Image (Gary Hill) WATARI-UM, The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1992

Published in English and Japanese on the occasion of Gary Hill’s exhibition at the Watari Museum, the book includes a text by Sarrazin titled “Channeled Silence” alongside a Q&A between Hill and Shizuko Watari. One of the earliest monographic publications on Hill’s work produced in Japan, it marks the beginning of a sustained critical engagement with the artist’s practice.

Réponses du cinéma japonais contemporain (1990–2004) Lettmotif, 2013

A collection of interviews with more than twenty contemporary Japanese directors, combined with essays and criticism spanning the major genres of the period — anime, fantastique, yakuza film, comedy, art cinema, and erotic cinema. The first sustained critical account in French of Japanese cinema’s transformation across this fifteen-year period, drawn from Sarrazin’s years in Tokyo as a critic and correspondent.