Vive le cinéma!

Tabakalera launches Vive le cinéma!, an exhibition that explores the limits of cinema and presents the audiovisual creations of film directors Dea Kulumbegashvili, Isaki Lacuesta, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese and Jia Zhang-ke; four filmmakers who have adapted their usual practice of making films for cinema to creating cinematographic installations for an exhibition hall. The four internationally-renowned filmmakers have responded to Tabakalera's invitation to participate in an exhibition through an audiovisual installation.

The idea underlying the exhibition is the rediscovery of cinema and the way in which light and sound extend beyond the screen. New forms of “expanded cinema,” of watching, listening, and experimenting, play a fundamental role in the works of the four artists throughout the exhibition. Of the four proposals that make up the exhibition, two, those by Mosese and Jia Zhang-ke, were presented at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, a prominent European institution with which Tabakalera has collaborated to set up this exhibition. On the other hand, those by Lacuesta and Kulumbegashvili have been expressly produced for this exhibition.

With the launch of Vive le cinéma!, Tabakalera dedicates itself to the 70th anniversary of the San Sebastian Film Festival and completes its offer of exhibitions for the upcoming months, after the inauguration of Imagine a Film Festival, along with the San Sebastian Film Festival, and the launch next July 14 of the new proposal by Scala on the main staircase of Tabakalera, where filmmaker Carlos Casas will propose a new sound installation entitled Mutia. 

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