From appropriation of dominant cinematic archives, to critical scrutiny of film techniques, the 12 modern and contemporary artists' works presented in this program exemplify an alternative and highly self-reflective form of cinema. Following Erika Balsom’s understanding of contemporary art as a potential “laboratory for film, a place in which its social, technological and aesthetic history can be picked over and recycled,” they reconsider what cinema is (or was) and what it can do. With an emphasis on the ideology behind the operation of filmic apparatus and the technological externalization of memory and time, the works in this program expose critical and aesthetic potentials of “an other cinema,” oscillating between white cube and black box.

65. Pula Film FestivalCinemaniac > Think Film 2018 - The Museum Of Found Footage

Artists: Nika Autor, Eli Cortiñas, Harun Farocki, Željko Kipke, Jean Gabriel Periot, Damir RadićCurated by: Branka Benčić / Tanja Vrvilo

What is left of the existing film and the historical film dispositif, its sensory, cognitive and structural forms after the age of film, in the time of multimedial moving images that rejects physical facture and apparatus, remedializing the artefacts and the active system of an obsolete  medium?