: : : Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid
: : : New cinema and contemporary art

In Madrid, from the 5th to the 14th of May, 2008

From the 5th to the 14th of May 2008, the 15th 'Rencontres Internationales' will create in Madrid a space of discovery and reflection between new cinema and contemporary art:
• at the Complejo El Aguila,
• at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía,
• at the Spanish Cinematheque
• at the Ministerio de Cultura,
• at the Instituto Cervantes,

The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid are supported in Madrid by the Ministerio de Cultura, the Comunidad de Madrid, and by the Instituto Cervantes, with the collaboration of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and of the Spanish Cinematheque.

With the presence of 150 artists and filmmakers from all-over the world, this exceptional edition will propose an international program - film, video, installation, net art, concerts - gathering 250 works from Spain, France, Germany and 60 other countries, internationally-known artists and filmmakers with young artists and filmmakers presented for the first time in Madrid. With many film premieres, a video program, an exhibition, multimedia concerts, a cycle of debates and panel discussions. A video library will offer a space where the whole programming, made of 90% of premieres, could be viewed and reviewed on request.

>>> FILM AND VIDEOSCREENINGS (new documentary approaches, new fictions, video, experimental).
Notable works include:
> a Carte blanche by Pedro Costa (PT).
> The latest video by Antoni Muntadas (ES) " On Translation: Miedo/Jauf " premièred in Madrid.
> The latest film by Christelle Lheureux (FR), a film premiered by Manon de Boer (NL), a documentary by Alfredo Jaar (CL).
> A fiction by Adel Abidin (Irak/FI), the latest film by Knut Asdam (NO), the new video of Herman Asselberghs (BE).
> A rare film by Gordon Matta-Clark (USA).
> A film by Hans Op De Beeck (BE).
> The latest work premiered by Peter Downsbrough (USA).
> Some focuses on several artists and a selection of rare films and videos coming from Colombia, Taiwan, Canada.

Among the programmed artists, we could also mention:
> Jon Mikel Euba (ES), Olivo Barbieri (IT)
> Shaun Gladwell (AU), Volker Schreiner (DE)
> Carles Congost (ES), Yves Netzhammer (CH)
> Emmanuelle Antille (CH), Nicolas Provost (BE), Nicholas & Sheila Pye (CA)
> Steven Cohen (South Africa), Ane Lan (NO), Ken Jacobs (USA)

Each screening offers a journey built around a subject, a transverse theme related to different audiovisual forms and practices.

>>> EXHIBITION (video, multimedia installation, net art).
A video and multimedia international exhibition organized following various thematic modules.
Data Meanings / Explotando datos: Christophe Bruno [fr], Claude Closky [fr], mi_ga [lt], JoDi [nl], Riccardo Iglesias [es], Joan Leandre [es], Michael Takeo Magruder [uk], Rybn [fr], Übermorgen [at].
Hyper Cinema / Hipercine: Franziska Cordes [de], Camille Henrot [fr], Francis Naranjo [es], Mario Opazo [cl], Norbert Pfaffenbichler [at].
Spaces / Espacios: Peter Downsbrough [us], Hans Op de Beeck [be], Peter Rose [us].
Movements / Movimientos: Daniel Crooks [nz], Johanna Domke [de], Lisa Klapstock [ca], Thomas Köner de], Marcellvs L. [br], Charly Nijensohn [ar], Erik Olofsen [nl].
Public Estates / Dominio público: Kader Attia [fr], François Bucher [cl], Tony Cokes [us], Immo Luedemann [de], Armand Morin [fr], Lawrence Weiner [us].
Monitoring Survey / Control vigilado: Alex Campoy [es], Wayne Clements [uk], Jérôme Joy [fr], Philipp Lachenmann [de], Veit Landwehr, Florian Zwissler [de], Ed Osborn [us], Alexander Schellow [de].

>>> MULTIMEDIA CONCERTS.
Among the programmed artists, we could mention the following: Thomas Köner (DE), Igor Stromajer (SL), Telcosystem (NL).

>>> DEBATES AND ROUND TABLES.
The Rencontres Internationales invite directors and curators from European and extra-European national museums, contemporary art centers and biennales in the fields of contemporary cinema, video and new media. These debates aim to develop a reflection on the concerns and tracks explored in each country in order to debrief this creation and accompany it, from a critical point of view as well as from the point of view of audiences and artists themselves..


Paris/Berlin/Madrid
In 2007, the Rencontres Internationales, which initially took place in Paris and Berlin, opened up to a third city: Madrid. This event now constitutes a unique artistic and cultural platform in Europe for artists, professional networks and different audiences.

The Rencontres Internationales reflects the specificities and convergences of art practices between new cinema and contemporary art, explores emerging art practices and their critical purposes and allows this necessary time when points of view meet and are exchanged.

The event wish to contribute to a reflection on our contemporary culture of image via a demanding program open to everyone.