CINEMANIAC
Cameron Gainer / Ellie Krakow / Vladislav Knežević
David Maljković / Dalibor Martinis / Mario Pfeifer / Sarah Wood
Curated by Branka Bencic
July 21 – August 6, MMC LUKA, Istarska 30, Pula
Vernissage July 21, 8 p.m.
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 /moving images and contemporary art, realized in the form of an exhibition, presenting the works of Croatian and international artists, aiming to bring them closer to a wide festival audience.
The exhibition Think Film, marking the 60th anniversary of the Pula Film Festival, gathers international and Croatian artists who question film as a system of representation, social technology, a complex system of moving images’ production and reproduction. The mentioned conceptual elements provide the framework for works that form a specific relationship with the idea of film as a medium that reflects social, ideological and cultural aspects. The works presented as part of the exhibition point at the mark that the films have left on the overall culture and show how the cinematic way of thinking, the experience of watching films, cinematic language, history, theory, and film aesthetics shape artistic practices and worldviews, whereas artists construct a specific discourse implying critical reflection, anxiety or context analysis.
The exhibition tackles the idea of film as a complex and developed representation system, as well as film codes and conventions that shape the dominant order. Film is perceived as a “social technology”, a hybrid of material and conceptual apparatus, of ideology and technology of film and cinema as a social institution.
Branka Benčić
