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In the effort to bring images as close to the retina as possible, the screen has been stripped of its collectivity. When everyone already has a private movie theatre in their pockets how can the physical and social space of the cinema avoid becoming obsolete?

By treating the cinema as an over-sized container for a website, the first evening in the series Shrinking Cinema aimed to highlight the condition of a screen—whether palm sized or spanning an entire wall—as a cinematic apparatus that becomes a space for the projection of memory, afterimages, and speculation.

Using the black box diagram of the Blickle Kino, Seth Weiner from the Palais des Beaux Arts presented and discussed a series of commissioned works with Claudia Slanar from Juniper Foam, Nikola Hansalik, Carlos Carcaré, Seth Lower, and Thomas D. Lonner, followed by performances from Alexandra Wanderer and Lucrecia Dalt.
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14 December — 2018
Blickle Kino / Belvedere 21