25 Jul 2014

CINEMANIAC 2014: Paper Movies and Artists' Cinema

CINEMANIAC 2014: Paper Movies and Artists' Cinema

Paper Movies, Luka Gallery, July 20th – August 11th
Artists' Cinema, Anex Gallery, July 20th – July 26th
Opening on July 20th, at 8.00 pm

Curated by: Branka Benčić

The exhibition Cinemaniac, established in 2002 as a sidebar program at the Pula Film Festival, is a long-term interdisciplinary research platform questioning the connection between film and contemporary art. It represents a place where art works are presented, a place where social-cultural and media-related aspects are integrated, where artists, institutions and the audience meet, where new forms of collaboration are created, where recent Croatian and international production of films made by artists, videos, experimental films and multimedia installations is showcased, where artists and there anthological works are presented. Nowadays, in an attempt to open a new discourse space, affirmation and retopicalisation of different forms of contemporary audio-visual production is equally played out in the space of a gallery, museum, cinema and film festivals. Cinemaniac 2014 comprises two sections: the exhibition entitled Paper Movies and the screenings' programme Artists' Cinema.

Paper Movies
The exhibition Paper Movies represents a fragmentary trajectory of 'paper movies' through collage, sketch, found footage, video, animation and photography as part of a film experiment, an experiment 'with film and around film', space where boundaries of a medium are explored. The exhibition aims at pointing at the continuity of a form of film opinion which leans on the experience of historical avant-gardes, exploratory practices of conceptual art, history, archive, recollections, retopicalisation in the context of the digital flow of images. It tackles the potentials of film as a resource that offers new horizons of art interventions. The exhibition presents Dalibor Barić, Marko Tadić, Ana Petrović, Michel Klofkorn, Antun Motika.

Artists' Cinema: New Narrations
The Artists' Cinema programme represents works created in the sphere where contemporary art and film meet, films made by artists, recent audio-visual production, placed in context and presented in museum and gallery exhibitions and showcased at cinemas and festivals. Tackling the relationship between film and visual arts, the programme transposes the production of cinematic forms that absorb the traditions of short, feature-length, experimental, avant-garde or documentary film, and video art, performances and multimedia installations into a hybrid medium, shifting in terms of categories, a tricky area of moving images that does not offer fix definitions. The programme comprises the sections New Narrations 2, Paper Movies and New Narrations 2 – Experiments with the Documentary and it presents the works by Damir Očka, Igor Grubić, Renata Poljak, Ana Hušman, Zlatko Kopljara, Dan Oki and others. The programme leans on the concept of the same name taking place at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb.