February 3, 2021

Scope BLN and LIGHT YEAR

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MOVING SILENCE

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Participating artists: SHOXXX, Giovanni De Roia, & Maren-Kea Freese

Curated by Marco Brosolo

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A screen is illuminated, the lights move on it. Those lights are images that tell a story. There is no sound, like in the paintings of the  Renaissance. The sounds sing and speak only in the head of every single viewer: an orchestration just thought but loud as the most intense concert.

“...the easiness of explaining all by words has polluted our story-telling to a pale shadow of original cinema. (...) since film started to gamble with mumbling and all that ‘hoochie-coochie’ and fancy words, Stories have lost their purity, Cinema its essence: innocence.”Aki Kaurismäki

The selection consists of 4 very different films, However one element unites them: a very strong poetic charge. Regardless of the style used, the "technical simpleness“ of these works enhances the essence. The musical accompaniment is performed by New York City itself (where the films are projected), with its sounds, noises, voices...

Marco Brosolo, Berlin 2021