UNTIL THE END OF CINEMA

screening curated by Luca Barbeni
ONLINE GALLERY

Share Festival- Market Forces, November 3th-8th

Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, via Giolitti 36,  h 10 am – 7 pm

“Cinema is dead. Long live the screens” Peter Greenaway
Until the End of Cinema is a Share Festival 2009 exhibition presenting a series of audio-visual works that begin where the cinema ceases to exist, taking us from the linear to the interactive, from the collective to an individual perspective.
The works can no longer be said to be cinema, but nor are they something else.

Boulevard by Peter Horvath is a dialogue between a highly talkative women and a man of few words, on a journey along the streets of the U.S.A., taking us from L.A. into the desert. A dialogue marked by a visual polyrhythm that describes the external universe and acts as a counterbalance to the conflicting sentiments of the speaker. As the intangible invades the tangible, new technologies broaden the space and potential for the cultural sphere of the ecosphere to expand, redefining the stories of the material world.
In Interview Project by David Lynch, cinema encounters the mobility, relationality and causality of the Internet, where men and women unearthed from America’s suburbs talk about their childhood, their biggest lifetime regrets, and their plans for the future.
The Big Plot by Paolo Cirio is a dispersed narrative project, where platforms multiply and the characters of the story come alive in social networks. Their fictional lives imitate reality, which unfolds over the platforms of major social networking sites.
The Greatest Story Ever Told by Phil Wood remixes classic scenes from the silver screen, creating a mash-up of Hollywood’s greatest stars, presented in a syncopated kaleidoscopic film montage.
A sud di Pavese by Matteo Bellizzi and Antonio Rollo is a cinema database where the rolling green hills of the Langhe district are contaminated by the southern seas of Calabria, tales from southern Italy intertwine with the faces of northern wine growers, and Turin is seen from an outsider’s perspective.
The Way I Saw It by Paul Juricic gives shape to a series of thoughts brought to mind in the author after having worked as a barista at Starbucks. Juricic tells of just how far the corporation’s famous policies are from the daily reality of those who work there.
13terShop by Florian Thalhofer offers a critical reflection on the social and architectural aspects of big shopping malls through interviews in this documentary. The Berlin-born director unveils how people live in such spaces through the words of regular shoppers at a big supermarket.
Hotel by Hans Hoogerbrugge is a narrative inviting the viewer to step into the shoes of Dr. Dotgin and lead him through this “clinically bizarre” hotel. Every click reveals something new, a surprise, something to think about, something to laugh about, or something of disgust.
Un palpitant by Nicolas Clauss shows us a setting in which a group of young and old people meet in different contexts to talk about love, old age and death.
BlogBot by Alex Dragulescu is not actually a film. It is an audio-visual narration that exists only as a process. The narration is created by a software program that captures blogs written by US soldiers off the web, combining them into this generative narration that never ends.

Since November the 3rd the works will be presented also inside the inside a online gallery dedicated to the screening:
www.toshare.it/untiltheendofcinema