Presentation of the book “Until the end of Cinema”

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On 9th march at 4.30 p.m. At the Auditorium Multimediale of the Laboratorio “Guido Quazza”, inside CIRMA, Luca Barbeni will present the book Fino alla fine del Cinema, edited by Clueb in november 2010.
In 1991 Wim Wenders directed Until the End of the World, where the explosion of communication media is reflected in the puzzle-pieces that make up the narration, in which each movie sequence is not necessarily tied to the next by cause and effect.
Just as Wender’s film is a cinematic journey into the depths of the human mind, taking us beyond the end of the world, the title of this book is an attempt to describe a series of cinema projects that take motion pictures beyond the cinema screen and experiment with non-linear forms of narration.
The works described can be situated along two vectors that expand in separate ways: the recombination of languages and the integration of story-telling into reality (via the screen).
Digital isomorphism has facilitated the recombination of languages, while the miniaturization of technologies and the pervasiveness of the Internet, or pervasive computing, have facilitated the integration of story-telling and reality.
Cinema as we knew it throughout the last century is dead, but today, in our digital age, it is the artistic form of expression that has been most contaminated by the technologies and media of our new ecosystem.
As a result of all this recombination, the frontiers of traditional cinema are being progressively pushed back, in the sense of overcoming the architectural limits of movie theatres. Given that, as Giuliana Bruno says, “it is thanks to architecture that a film becomes cinema,” it has yet to be seen whether we really can talk still about cinema, considering that the moving images can be viewed in a variety of ways, from the sides of buildings or from portable screens.
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Fino alla fine del Cinema
4.30 pm, 9th march 2011
CIRMA – Auditorium Multimediale  del Laboratorio “Guido Quazza”