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From
the 1st to the 6th of July
[EDITO]
We are very pleased to present, from the 1st to the 6th of
July 2008 in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the 3rd part in the
presentation of the 2007-2008 edition of Rencontres Internationales
Paris/Berlin/Madrid, after the first events in Paris in November
2007 at the Pompidou Center, at the Jeu de Paume and at the Palais
de Tokyo, and the second portion in Madrid in May 2008 at the Reina
Sofía National Museum, at the Filmoteca, at the Instituto
Cervantes, at the Ministerio de Cultura and at the Complejo El Aguila
de la Comunidad de Madrid.
Since 1997, Rencontres Internationales has undertaken interdisciplinary
work between new cinema and contemporary art-in film, video, and
multimedia formats.
The boundaries between these artistic practices are permeable, and
Rencontres Internationales seeks to privilege trajectories and circulations
between these practices, their authors, and their respective publics,
as well as between the different geographical, artistic, and cultural
spaces where the events take place.
Initially in Paris and Berlin exclusively, Rencontres Internationalies
opened up in 2007 to a third city of presentation, Madrid. This
opening made it possible to create a space for unique artistic and
intercultural exchanges among the three cities.
This new edition of Rencontres Internationales will take place in
the presence of artists and filmmakers from all over the world,
and it will present 200 works from Germany, France, Spain, and 60
other countries, created both by artists recognized on the international
scene and by young artists who will be introduced for the first
time in Berlin.
Each day, the public will be able to discover, for free, indoor
programming and a video projection sequence, as well as being able
to participate in numerous debates and meetings: discussions with
artists, critiques, and curators and other professionals from the
art and cinema environments. Many high points make this edition
special, most notably the opening evening on July 1, two special
cartes blanches for Antonio Muntadas and Pedro Costa on July 4 &
5, as well as, over numerous days, a Franco-German forum centered
upon young artists and the relationships between cinema and contemporary
art.
Presenting the same programming in cities as different as Berlin,
Paris, and Madrid, with their particular relationships to their
culture and with their general cultural practices, makes it possible
to bring to the fore what are probably the most dense and complex
issues of creation in our times, and to interrogate our ability
to receive that which is other to us: that is, different artistic
contexts, or different cultural references.
Thus, in order to go further with this idea, we would like, for
this new Berlin edition, to highlight in particular the Franco-German
dimension of the project and its dimension of cultural exchanges
between Paris and Berlin.
Rencontres Internationales would like to take account of the specificities
and the convergences in the new artistic practices of new cinema
and contemporary art, to explore emergent artistic forms and their
critical propositions, and to bring about this necessary time when
points of view cross each other and exchange with each other.
Rencontres Internationales would also like to contribute to reflection
on the contemporary culture of the image, through well-made programming
that is open to everyone.
Nathalie Hénon and Jean-François Rettig
Directors and Curators of Rencontres Internationales
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