Arsenal Summer School – Workshops on Film Mediation

From August 26 to 29, we will for the first time offer workshops on film mediation under the title "Space Odyssey: Spaces for Film and Video Art". Movie theaters are being rebuilt in order to persist in the digital age. Numerous smaller movie theaters are falling victim to this process. In a time of radical media-related changes, cinema is having a hard time. Against this background, the issue is to take a look at the real and virtual spaces in which cinema is today as lively as ever. We encounter moving images in public space, in museums and galleries, on stage and on the Internet – social realms and spaces of thought that define cinema in numerous ways. The boundaries between cinema and other art forms and discourses are fluid. The architecture formed by all these spaces is an expression of the utopia of a cinema in flux: How can curatorial practice newly define spaces?