Open Cinema

The initiative brings together works by contemporary artists and amateur material, originally made on film, which develop different poetics.

If amateur films convey an idea of domestic intimacy, the most recent creations evoke more rarefied sensations of detachment and estrangement. Suspended atmospheres and surreal narratives that slow down the movement of time, imperceptible in the repetition of gestures and in the lack of finalized actions.

The observation of Tobias Kaspar's newspaper, the futurist atmospheres of Agnieszka Mastalerz and Michał Szaranowicz or the horizons of Cristina De Paola make us reflect on the unique conditions in which we have lived in recent months.

If the space of archival narration is time, the historical, intimate and familiar one, the time of video narration is space, a place of waiting and questioning.