18 Jul 2013

CINEMANIAC 2013

CINEMANIAC 2013: THINK FILM

CAMERON GAINER / ELLIE KRAKOW / VLADISLAV KNEŽEVIĆ / DAVID MALJKOVIĆ / DALIBOR MARTINIS / MARIO PFEIFER / SARAH WOOD. Curated by Branka Bencic

July 21 - August 6, 2013
MMC LUKA, Pula, Croatia 

THINK FILM builds up on the idea of film/cinema as a complex and developed system of representation that questions the ways by which dominant paradigms are shaping the world and the view, re-working it's codes and conventions, formative structures, historical narratives, tensions of time and space.

The exhibition rethinks film and cinema as complex cultural forms, critical methodology and social, ideological and technological apparatus. It presents works by artists that critically engage with the idea of film to reflect on different cultural, political, social and ideological realities by works that form relationships to the idea of cinema as social technology and cultural interface.

Works in the exhibition represent how contemporary art practices are informed by ways of cinema. Practices that engage with rearrangement of the archive underscoring the importance of the relationship with the past and rereading it.  What different artistic positions have in common is the legacy of cinema, a 'cinematic way of thinking' as the mental process shaped by cinema - conceptually, institutionally and ideologically.  (Branka Bencic)

CINEMANIAC, established in 2002 as support program at the Pula Film Festival is a long-term research platform rethinking the connections between film /moving images and contemporary art and issues of artists' film, taking shape of the exhibition format, presenting the works of Croatian and international artists aiming to bring them closer to a wide festival audience.

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