18/7/2009
Architecture and Film
MMC Luka, Pula
Subjective spaces. The project investigates the relationship between film and visual arts by presenting recent Croatian and international production, as well as anthological videos, experimental films and multimedia installations. Playing with the tensions between the dimensions of time and space, film codes and conventions create the view and the world, object and illusion, whereas alternative, experimental and artist' film explores and deconstructs internal laws and relations towards outer formative structures.
curated by Branka Bencić
Jonas Dahlberg, Ra di Martino, Ursula Mayer, Damir Ocko Curator:
Branka Bencić Cinemaniac is a sidebar program of the Pula Film
Festival since 2002. The exhibition presents innovations and ideas
concerning the presentation of moving images - works of film and video in
the gallery context, where the infrastructure of the film festival
provides a contextual and organizational platform as well as collaborative
model. The exhibition works as an active context that enables the
presentation of works of art. It is a meeting place that integrates
social, cultural, technological, media, and aesthetic aspects, a meeting
point for art, artists, institutions, and the audience. It investigates
the relationship between film and visual arts by presenting recent
Croatian and international production, as well as anthological videos,
experimental films and multimedia installations. Playing with the
tensions between the dimensions of time and space, film codes and
conventions create the view and the world, object and illusion, whereas
alternative, experimental and artist' film explores and deconstructs
internal laws and relations towards outer formative structures. This
year's cinemaniac exhibition tries to point to a specific relation between
the moving images (film, video) and architecture, and the meanings they
produce, as it is formed around the manners in which specific films, film
motifs or sequences, represent a suggestive, psychological and symbolic
quality of architecture. It is in fact the interplay of (modern)
architecture and film (cinematographic representation).
The space here is
perceived as one of the basic means of expression and as the place where
the meanings are structured , whereas film language, with its means of
expression and syntactic principles, enables special understanding of both
space and reality. The space is thus the scene of a specific dramatic
happening, a historic event or a life setting presentation and it becomes
the object of an autonomous visual experiment. In the exhibited works by
four artists - View Through a Park by Jonas Dahlberg, August 2008 by Ra di
Martino, Interiors by Ursula Mayer and The Boy with a Magic Horn by Damir
Očko – presented spaces represent performance scenes for open
narrative forms – places where camera movements, ambiance, architectural
structures, music and dialogue meet with the protagonists. Relations
between architectural structures and the possibility of social
interaction, irrespective of whether a human being - a fictional character
is present or not, can be discerned. In the scenes with or without
dialogue, just like in spaces void of people and their physical presence,
the presence of a subject is coded through the view, by means of a
camera's technical characteristic – the lens – the intruder, a
watching eye. The camera becomes an illusion mechanism for the creation of
a renaissance space, a movement compatible with human eye and the
presentation ideology that revolves around the perception of a subject.
The darkness of the cinema auditorium or the setting of a dimmed gallery
space play with the voyeuristic imagination of the audience and accentuate
the illusion of sneaking into a private world.
Opening: Sunday, 19th July 2009, 20 h
MMC Luka
Istarska 30 - Pula