Cine Esquema Novo Expandido discusses the crossings between cinema and visual arts in the 21^st century

The special edition of the festival, which occurs from June 19 to 30, in Porto Alegre/Brazil, presents movie premieres, and video installations by five Brazilian moviemakers and the British artist William Raban

Video installation Time and the Wave, by Raban, has its world premiere

The event is sponsored by Petrobras, a joint effort of the City of Porto Alegre and a collaboration with the 9^th Bienal do Mercosul | Porto Alegre

Between June 19 to 30, it will take place in Porto Alegre/Brazil a special edition of Cine Esquema Novo, that features – for the first time in Brazil – the British artist William Raban, a pioneer in the practice and concept of expanded cinema and whose career is dedicated to making movies that transcend traditional formats. Through Raban’s work and of five distinct Brazilian filmmakers – Carlomagno Rodrigues (MG), Distruktur – Melissa Dullius & Gustavo Jahn (RS/Brasil – Germany), Guto Parente (CE), Ricardo Alves, Jr. (MG) and Sérgio Borges (MG) – the Cine Esquema Novo Expandido (CEN-E) will discuss the artistic practices and transformations of the audiovisual in the 21^st century.

CEN-E’s program features the exhibition of never before seen video installations at Usina do Gasômetro and Galeria Ecarta. At Santander Cultural there will be movie sessions, commented meetings with the participant artists, course and seminars. All activities have free admittance.

Besides the world premiere of the video installation titled Time and The Wave, by artist William Raban, at the Usina do Gasômetro, other highlights include also the national preview screening of Doce Amianto, a feature length by Guto Parente and Uirá dos Reis and the national premiere of Tremor, a short by Ricardo Alves, Jr. At Galeria Ecarta there will be an exhibition of two never before seen video installations – created especially for this edition of the festival: Hai Kai, indícios de vida sob pressão do tempo (Hai Kai – evidences of a life under pressure of time), by Sérgio Borges and Tormenta Ressonante (Resonant Storm), by Ricardo Alves, Jr. and Viviane Ferreira.

William Raban is the main name of CEN-E’s occupation in the Usina do Gasômetro. During the opening of activities, in June 19, Raban will present his Thames Film (1987), in a projection over the waters of Rio Guaíba, aboard a boat, for guests. On June 20, at 6:30 p.m., the artists will give the Master Class “Materialidade do Tempo: o suporte fílmico e a cidade” (Time Materiality: the filmic support and the city), for which the registrations are now closed. On the same day takes place the openings of the video installations Time and the Wave (2013) and About Now MMX (2010) at Galeria Iberê Camargo (ground floor), and The Houseless Shadow (2011) at Galeria Lunara (5^th floor). Time and the Wave will have its world premiere at CEN-E, while the other two video installations have not yet been seen in Brazil. The works will remain in exhibition until June 20.

In June 21, the movie sessions will begin at Santander Cultural. At each day, a different schedule includes seminars with the invited directors, always at 8:30 p.m. (it is mandatory to access the sessions at 7 p.m.). Santander Cultural is also the space where it will be held, on June 22 and 23, the course “O filme como território comum às artes visuais e ao cinema: relações entre espaço e tempo – êxtase e movimento” (Film as a common territory to visual arts and cinema: relations between space and time – ecstasy and movement), given by Maria Helena Bernardes, from Arena Cursos. Registrations are now closed.

From June 25, the Galeria Ecarta presents five video installations of Brazilian artists that are participants in CEN-E. 1976 – Lugar Sagrado (1976 – Sacred Place), by Carmosmagno Rodrigues and Alonso Fafyeze; Flash Happy Society, by Guto Parente; Lux Interior, by the Distruktur duo; Tormenta Ressonante (Resonant Storm), by Ricardo Alves, Jr. and Viviane Ferreira Hai Kai, indícios de vida sob pressão do tempo (Hai Kai – evidences of a life under pressure of time), by Sérgio Borges, will remain open to the public until June 30.

The complete service and program can be checked below or on the website www.cineesquemanovo.org.

The selected artists for this special edition have developed their careers throughout the last ten years with the permanent watch of Cine Esquema Novo. Sérgio Borges, Guto Parente, Ricardo Alves, Jr., Carlosmagno Rodrigues and the Distruktur dup “are names that represent moviemakers and/or artists whose careers have intertwined with Cine Esquema Novo’s history, and that projected their works throughout the years to reach spaces such as the Cannes, Locarno, Marseille and Berlin movie festivals, as well as the São Paulo, Lyon and Istanbul biennials”, explain in a statement the five directors and curators of the festival: Alisson Avila, Gustavo Spolidoro, Jaqueline Beltrame, Morgana Rissinger and Ramiro Azevedo.

This special schedule in June is a preparatory event for the 8^th edition of Cine Esquema Novo, that will take place in 2014, starting a new era of CEN: the festival will be held every two years for the duration of 30 days, formalizing the broadening of its field of operations to other forms of expression and audiovisual exhibition, besides the films in traditional formats. Another example of this new moment for CEN is the collaboration with the 9^th Bienal do Mercosul | Porto Alegre. Besides the coming of William Raban in June, this approximation will happen again during the Biennial, which takes place from September to November 2013, focusing on the encounter between culture with nature, on the differences between discovery and invention and on the crossings between experimentation and innovation, and that presents artists – among them, Raban – as visionaries of the present, past and future.

Sponsored by Petrobras, Cine Esquema Novo Expandido is a realization of Associação Cine Esquema Novo de Desenvolvimento da Imagem (ACENDI), in cooperation with the City of Porto Alegre / Coordination Office of Cinema, Video e Photography of the Municipal Secretariat of Culture and in collaboration with the 9^th Bienal do Mercosul | Porto Alegre. CEN-E has the support of Santander Cultural / Cine Santander Cultural and Galeria Ecarta, and its visual identity is created by artist and designer Vinicius Stein.

The Cine Esquema Novo

The Cine Esquema Novo Expandido is a special project, preparatory for a new era of the festival. After 2014, CEN will be held at every two years, and its competitive exhibition will be open for different audiovisual formats, not only movies for movie theaters, changing drastically its program axis. This movement formalizes the hybridization of its curatorial space for other forms of expression resultant from the cross between image, sound and exhibition ambient.

Conceived in 2001 and held for the first time in 2003, Cine Esquema Novo developed throughout the years with the aim to exhibit, reflect and promote the Brazilian authorial audiovisual production, facing the need of problematizing movies dedicated to aesthetic choices and proposals that, at that time, were still not properly accepted on other festivals in the country because they were perceived as external pieces to the ‘established cinema’. They were “movies”, “non-movies”, “videos” or “almost movies” which moved on other circuits, from the marginal to the conceptual, without fitting into the logic of what would be films in a film festival.

CEN’s idealizers believed there was an imbalance between the production and the observation of this exploratory production in multiple directions. Therefore, this kind of work have been exhibited, reflected upon, and promoted throughout the many editions of the festival until it formed the current character of Cine Esquema Novo: a gathering of works that tend to escape the dichotomy between “cinema” and “visual arts” – this separation of bodies, formal and discourse, determined in the 20^th century as if they were about potentially distinct and distant approaches.

What is seen since the beginning of Cine Esquema Novo’s activities, precisely in coinscidence with the new image adventures in the 21^st century, is a staggering development of possibilities and legitimacies for the audiovisual use while a narrative authorial resource. The desire to be able to reflect upon this challenging character of the contemporary Brazilian production, but positioned as a “film festival”, made CEN a project without the expected rigor in this type of project in respect to its rules and limits. The dilution of the genre, register and format divisions contaminated the way of exhibiting, distinguishing and thinking the festival, which has in Cine Esquema Novo Expandido in this year of 2013 a special transition project towards 2014.

Among competitive or special exhibitions, passed through CEN works from film and visual arts names such as Ruy Guerra, Cao Guimarães, Kiko Goifman, Paulo Bruscky Beto Brant, Lírio Ferreira, Sergio Borges, Andrea Tonacci, Rogério Sganzerla, Lúcia Koch, Cinthia Marcelle, Sara Ramo, Carlosmagno Rodrigues, Sofia Borges, Marcellvs L., Jonathas de Andrade, Ricardo Alves Jr., Luiz Roque, Guto Parente, Cristiano Lenhardt, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn (Distruktur), Rivane Neuenschwander and Pablo Lobato, among many others. As well as the participants of the international project CEN Zona Livre (György Pálfi, Steve McQueen, Jem Cohen, Harmony Korine, Koen Mortier, Alexis dos Santos, Cory McAbee, Amat Escalante, Shunji Iwai, Marianna Palka, Jan Balej, Young-Seok Noh, Jerzy Skolimowski, Olivier Smolders, Gregg Araki, Takashi Miike and Roichard Schenkman) and, in 2013, the British William Raban, who comes for the first time in Brazil in a joint effort between Cine Esquema Novo Expandido, the Prefeitura de Porto Alegre and the 9^th Bienal do Mercosul | Porto Alegre.

Cine Esquema Novo is: Alisson Avila, Gustavo Spolidoro, Morgana Rissinger and Ramiro Azevedo.

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Cine Esquema Novo Expandido 2013

Exhibition of films, video installations, public interventions, course, seminars, lectures and master classes. Brazilian guest artists: Carlosmagno Rodrigues (MG), Distruktur - Melissa Dullius & Gustavo Jahn (RS/Brasil - Alemanha), Guto Parente (CE), Ricardo Alves Jr. (MG) and Sérgio Borges (MG). International guest artist: William Raban (UK).

From June 19 to 30 in Porto Alegre (RS), at the Usina do Gasômetro, Santander Cultural, Galeria Ecarta and Rio Guaíba. Exhibitions on the Usina do Gasômetro open to the public until July 20.

From Tuesday to Sunday, in different times. All activities are free admittance.

Usina do Gasômetro - Av. Presidente João Goulart, 551 - Centro Histórico - +55 51 3289.8100

Santander Cultural - Rua Sete de Setembro, 1028 - Centro Histórico - +55 51 3287.5500

Galeria Ecarta - Av. João Pessoa, 943 - Cidade Baixa – +55 51 4009.2970

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