Exhibitions

Cinemaniac > Think film is a multi-annual research platform examining the connections between film, moving images and contemporary art, which has been a side programme of Pula Film Festival since 2002.

(Goran Trbuljak: WOW, WOW and Ready-Made – individual exhibition; Think Film >Think Cinema – group exhibition)

14 July – 1 August 2019

MMC Luka

CURATOR Branka Benčić

ORGANISERS  UO Apoteka – prostor za suvremenu umjetnost

The 18th edition of the Cinemaniac > Think Film exhibition is structured in two parts, as two separate exhibitions, with the addition of screenings and discussions. The first exhibition is by Goran Trbuljak, a versatile artist, visual artist, pioneer of conceptual art, film cinematography, and animated film author. At the exhibition in Pula, Trbuljak will exhibit the latest cycle of his photographs from the series Sketches for a Sculpture, a series of still life photographs of sorts, with arranged ready-made objects as attributes of his two professions. He says about the concept behind the exhibits: “Godard said that cinema is truth twenty-four times per second, Haneke said it is a lie twenty-four times per second, and for me, cinema is twenty-four ready-mades per second.”

The second part of the project is the group exhibition Think Film >Think Cinema, pooling several artistic positions, which talk in different ways about the spaces of cinemas through works encompassing different meanings - cinema as a social space, as a space of memories and nostalgia, as a space of the magic of the screening, as a place of specific architecture, as a physical and symbolic space that follows and reflects societal and technological transformations. Authors: Mladen Stilinović, Chai Siris, Silvestar Kobas, Lara Ušić, and others.

Additional programme: Monday 15 July at 7 p.m. is dedicated to the presentation of the book Film and Art After Cinema (published by MAMA, Zagreb, 2019) by Lars Henrik Gass, Director of the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen. Following the discussion, at 8 p.m. recent short films from the selection of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen will be screened. At the same time, the exhibition Tomislav Gotovac: Film by All Means will run at Apoteka - Space for Contemporary Art.