(Film Ist) Cinema is...? Identity and Representation???

2022 / color / found footage / sound / 4:3 / 2’03’’

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Synopsis: Video created entirely from Prelinger Archive footage, included in a compilation featuring works by various artists responding to the question “Cinema is…?”, inspired by Gustav Deutsch’s Film Ist. This excerpt takes on an ironic tone toward the idea of cinema as representation.

The compilation includes works by Margarida Fonseca, Gonçalo Fonseca, Arturo Monterroso García, Francine Ramos, Ema Ramos, Joana Pacheco, Francisca Sardinha, Bruno Mairos, Teresa Molina and Tomás Guedes.

Curated by filmmaker Maria Mire.

Exhibition:
Convento dos Capuchos, Almada, Portugal, July-September 2023

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