From: massimo pistone (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Oct 21 2008 - 09:22:55 PDT
abstracta
international abstract cinema exhibition
Sponsored by the President of Italian Republic
and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
October 26th, 2008 and October 27th
At The Cairo, with Instituto Cervantes and Istituto Italiano di Cultura
abstracta The Only Festival of Its’ Kind in the World Today
The abstract cinema exhibition carried out in Liege , Belgium , in 1951, organised by artist Jean Raine and film-maker Cobra witnessed the participation of the masters of the cinema of '20s and '30s, Leger, Duchamp, Dulac, Ernst, Veronesi, Len Lye, Richter, Henry Moore and others.
Today, after the great success of the 2006, 2007 and 2008 editions in Rome, Link Campus University of Malta and Zac Association present the third Abstracta Exhibition at The Cairo with 45 filmmakers from around the world, a forum where the authors of this cinema, as old as its fictional counterpart, can meet, confront each other and exchange ideas and opinions.
At The Cairo, with Instituto Cervantes and Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Abstracta is on Via Nomentana 335 - Roma - tel 0039 0640400239.
Massimo Pistone is the Director of the Exhibition.
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The members of the International Jury are Americo Sbardella, Chairman (Filmstudio 80, Roma), Vanna Fadini (Link Campus), Pip Chodorov (Revoir, Paris), Gerardo Lo Russo ( Rome - Academy of Fine Arts –Director), Simonetta Lux ( La Sapienza , University of Rome ), Javier Aguirre (Anticine, Madrid ).
The definition of Abstract Cinema given in 1926 by Rudolf Kurtz doesn't seem to describe completely enough this immense conceptual field, however, in substantial agreement with the thesis of Georges Roque (“What Is Abstract Art?,” 2004) and, above all, with the 1951 essay by Jean Raine (“Fondement d'une étude sur le film abstrait”), we have delineated Abstract Cinema as the one "that does not tell stories".
In this way, we have broadened the scope of the conceptual character of the abstract.
Another ambition of the Exhibition is to find a way to enable Abstract Cinema, which has been plundered by fictional cinema, music videos and advertisement, to promote itself as an independent and valuable resource.
The PROGRAMME in The Cairo
http://www.abstractacinema.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=31
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