[2] Lipman's essays on film history, technology, and aesthetics have been published in Artforum, Sight and Sound, and in numerous academic books and journals.
Lipman is also the author of several historical analytical essays, including a definitive history of John Cassavetes and his collaboration with Charles Mingus on the score for Shadows, as well as an analysis of the ground-breaking production techniques used in Kent Mackenzie's The Exiles (1961).
His best known performance is The Book of Paradise Has No Author, which premiered August 2011 at the Inquiry Towards the Practice of Secular Magic, a cross-disciplinary event at piXel (+) freQuency, hosted by Los Angeles Filmforum and presented by the Disembodied Theater Corporation.
The performance essay The Exploding Digital Inevitable premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2017.
The essay concerns the process of restoring Bruce Conner's classic avant-garde short Crossroads, for which several versions existed.