On its 15th anniversary, Sónar 2008 delves into one of the most significant exhibition ventures in the festival’s history. For the first time, a central theme will run through most of Sónar’s exhibition areas: Cinema.
Cinema Beyond Cinema is an unusual journey into the present and future of film. But it is a journey that begins on the edges of film, beyond film.
It frames the areas of SonarMàtica, Sonarama, Digital Art A La Carte and on of the SonarCinema’s menu. Two exhibitions, five showcases and three audiovisual shows come together to form Cinema Beyond Cinema, an unprecedented adventure for the eyes of visitors.
In the 21st century, new means of production –the tools for digital creation– and of distribution –the Internet– have revolutionised audiovisual culture in general and are starting to transform the possibilities of the art of cinema in particular, from the outside.
The exhibition areas of Cinema Beyond Cinema are as follows:
1. SonarMàtica – FUTURE PAST CINEMA
This year, SonarMàtica, the festival’s main exhibition area, presents Future Past Cinema, an extraordinary exhibition project that creates links between the past and the future of Cinema under a single vision.
SonarMàtica is an exhibition that transports the visitor to the fascinating universe of the moving image of the 19th century, as seen through the eyes of artists working with contemporary media. The display is complemented with the simultaneous exhibition of ten machines for creating moving images from the 19th century, from the Tomás Mallol collection at the Girona Film Museum.
2. Sonarama – LIGHT AND SOUND
Sonarama is on the one hand an exploration based around new forms of articulating film, focusing on light as a seminal element of cinematic art and on the other, it presents a selection of ideas with the potentialities of light as their constituent theme.
3. Digital Art A La Carte – LIVE CINEMA, YOUTUBE, SHORT FILMS AND VIDEO GAMES:
This presents some of the new areas of contemporary audiovisual production by means of four digital exhibitions:
- Homo Ludens On The Net deals with the History of Video Games.
- Live Cinematic Explorations In The Era Of Realtime takes a closer look at the most important recent audiovisual production areas: Live Cinema.
- All You Zombies shows that YouTube and GoogleVideo are the great collective participatory video library of the new millennium. The director Jonathan Caouette, a pioneer in the use of Internet in film, shows is his favourite online videos.
- Notodofilmfest.com and Bigas Luna present a selection of the best short films from the latest festival, showing the rude health of this film format on the Internet.
4. SonarCinema – CINE-MATERIA
The works selected for Cine-Materia are based on a common idea: the appropriation and manipulation of others’ material: silent films, educational films, Hollywood classics and advertising. Editing becomes a vital tool in all of them –the distorting (or creative) element that gives a new form and meaning to the footage encountered.
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