Exhibition at Moscow Museum of Modern Art «Expanded Cinema: part 1»
June 14 – July 3, 2011
Yermolaevsky lane, 17
+7 (495) 231-3660
www.mmoma.ru
Exhibition at Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture «Expanded Cinema: part 2»
June 25 — August 18, 2011
19A Ulitsa Obraztsova
+7 (495) 645-05-20
http://www.garageccc.ru/
Presentations, performances, screenings and discussions: June 24 –June 27, 2011
Media Forum at the Moscow International Film Festival has for the last twelve years been responsible for the borderline territory between cinema and contemporary art. According to the theorists and practitioners of the art of moving images it is exactly there that most interesting and promising events in screen culture are happening: multiscreen cinema is evolving, multimedia art works are created in real time mode and with active audience unteraction, new strategies of distribution and contextual analysis of video works are developing. Apparantly, this is the future of both cinema and video art as a whole.
This XII Media Forum presents what is probably the most ambitious project in all of its history — the Expanded Cinema exhibition chosen from the latest and most striking works on the verge of cinema and video art. Each of these works has its own interpretation of the moving images, its own method of working with the time and space of the screen. The organizers aimed to show the whole range of these art strategies and their distinctness, as they are special and very relevant now, having overtaken major art festivals worldwide. The expositions at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture are supplemented by sessions with the artists participating in the project, their lectures and workshops, live performances and live communication of the audience with the most outstanding art figures of our time.