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March 19 – 30, 2025

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MATERIALIZING THE IMMATERIAL: FILM AS SEEING AND SENSING

16:15 - 17:00 Wednesday 20th Mar 2024 / 45 min

Equipped with an ever-expanding array of image-making technologies, artists turn to cinema to breathe substance into the ephemeral. In these films, abstract concepts from history to metabolism are rendered material through means of image-making. This gives rise to the question: To what extent does image-making shape our perception of the world? Or, is the other way round: Does the world itself dictate how we sense and see it? 

Speakers

Sasha Litvintseva

Co-director of "Constant", showing in the NEW:VISIONS award.

Beny Wagner

Co-director of "Constant" showing in the New Visions Competition.

Valentine Umansky

As a curator, author and critic, Valentine Umansky has worked for various institutions dedicated to visual arts and is currently acting as Curator, International Art at Tate Modern.

Yuyan Wang

Filmography: Look On the Bright Side (2024) The Moon Also Rises (2024) One Thousand and One Attempt To Be an Ocean (2021)