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March 19 – 30, 2025

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ART:CINEMA

CPH:DOX has always insisted that documentary films are art. And what better place to emphasize this than at our art scene, ART:CINEMA at SMK.

In the beautiful, magnificent surroundings of the National Gallery of Denmark, we open the doors to ART:CINEMA and a weekend full of documentaries with the body and art at the center, framed with guided tours, artist talks, workshop visits, and concerts.

This year’s theme ‘Body Politics’ moves into both the cinema and the museum’s Sculpture Street on the first day of the scene, where we focus on the significance of architecture for the healing of the body with the documentary film ‘Rehab (From Rehab)’ and a debate facilitated by the architecture festival CAFx.

For the rest of the weekend, you can look forward to guided tours at SMK, visits to the museum’s workshops, and a very special Sakamoto concert, when pianist and composer Nicolai Kornerup interprets selected works by Sakamoto following the screening of the film about the recently deceased Japanese artist, and fills the beautiful halls with melodic music created especially for the occasion.

We conclude Sunday afternoon. Remember that with your cinema ticket under ART:CINEMA, you have access to SMK all day and can look forward to exploring the museum’s many exhibitions. If you have an annual pass to SMK, you get a 20 percent discount. ART:CINEMA is developed and presented in collaboration with SMK.

12:00

E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea

Beatrice Minger & Christoph Schaub / Switzerland / 2024 / World Premiere / 89 min

+ Event: Guided tour: The sea as inspiration

After the film screening, you can join a free guided tour of SMK's art collection. In continuation of the film, the tour will delve into selected works in the collection, where Danish artists have been inspired by the sea - both in stormy weather and moonlight. The tour begins directly after the film screening and lasts approximately 30 minutes. Please note that there is a limited number of seats. Presented in collaboration with Copenhagen Architecture Festival..
Language: Danish Remember that with your cinema ticket to ART:CINEMA, you have access to SMK all day and can explore the museum's many exhibitions. If you have an annual pass to SMK, you get 20 percent off all screenings and events in ART:CINEMA.

A love triangle of jealousy in the Parisian art scene of the 1930s is brought to life in a stylish docufiction about iconic artist and architect Eileen Gray, who built her modernist dream house on the Riviera, only to be upstaged by Le Corbusier.

14:30

Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus

Neo Sora / Japan / 2023 / 103 min

20 compositions, five decades, one performance. With posterity as his only audience, the Japanese star composer strums his own musical testament on the keys in the last performance before his death. Intimate, majestic and minimalistic, captured by the maestro's own son.