Rencontres Internationales Madrid 2010

In Madrid, on April 12-21, the ‘Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid’ will create in Madrid a space of discovery and reflection between new cinema and contemporary art, at the Reina Sofia National Museum, the Spanish Cinematheque, the Tabacalera – Future National Centre for Visual Arts, the Sala Alcalá 31 of the Comunidad de Madrid.

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OPENING #1 – Monday, April 12
@ TABACALERA – Future National Centre for Visual Arts
7PM: EXHIBITION OPENING
9PM: MULTIMEDIA CONCERT
FREE ENTRANCE
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OPENING #2 – Tuesday, April 13
@ REINA SOFIA NATIONAL MUSEUM
7.30PM: OPENING SCREENING
9.30PM: MULTIMEDIA CONCERT
FREE ENTRANCE
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With the presence of 100 artists and filmmakers from all over the world, this exceptional edition will propose an unprecedented programme gathering 150 works from Spain, France, Germany and 50 other countries, works by artists and filmmakers internationally renowned and young artists shown for the first time in Madrid. With many films premieres, a video program, a media art exhibition, multimedia concerts, a forum.

FILMS AND VIDEO SCREENINGS
New fiction, documentaries, video, experimental
@ Reina Sofia National Museum
@ Spanish Cinematheque
• Carte blanche given to Werner Schroeter (DE), and to Harun Farocki (DE)
• Film-premiere : Pedro Costa (PT) – ‘Ne change rien’ (98’, Portugal/France, 2009).
• Special screening dedicated to Jean-Luc Godard (CH), and to Jonas Mekas (LT/US).
•Two new films by Ken Jacobs (US), ‘The Day was a scorcher’ and ‘excerpt from The Sky Socilalist stratified’.
• Film premiere by Christian Merlhiot (FR) with ‘Le Procès d’Oscar Wilde’
•Two short films byTsaï Ming-Liang (TW), ‘Madame. Butterfly’ (2008) and Apichatpong Weerasethakul  (TH), ‘A letter to Uncle Boonmee’ (2009)
• The newest works by Ben Rivers (UK) – Charlotte Ginsborg (UK) – Julius Ziz (LT) – Zapruder (IT) – Philip Warnell (UK) – Ariane Michel (FR) – Eija-Liisa Ahtila (FN) – Emmanuelle Antille (CH)

From the other programmed artists: Carles Asensio Monrabà (ES), Francois Bucher (CO), Jonathan Cummins (IR), Eleonore de Montesquiou (FR), Bea de Visser (NL), Fernando del Cubo (ES), Rä di Martino (IT), Johanna Domke (DE), Ivan Faktor (CR), Dora Garcia (ES), Crispin Gurholt (NO), Bouchra Khalili (MA), Almagul Menlibayeva (KZ), Avi Mograbi (IL), Vivian Ostrovsky (FR), Antoni Pinent (ES), Pere Portabella (ES), Jérôme Schlomoff (FR), Volker Schreiner (DE), Yu Chin Tseng (TW), Liu Wei (CN).

The screening programme gather 30 screenings. Each one is built around a transversal theme, creating a questioning that stretches across different forms and audiovisual practices.

EXHIBITION – ‘BETWEEN YOU AND ME’
@ Tabacalera, Future National Centre for Visual Arts
The exhibition brings together the work of 17 international artists: Patrick Bernatchez (CA), Tony Cokes (US), Diego del Pozo Barriuso (ES), Peter Downsbrough (US), Pieter Geenen (BE), Chia-wei Hsu (TW), Ryoji Ikeda (JP), Joan Leandre (ES), Gordon Matta Clark (US), Anthony McCall (US), Francis Naranjo (ES), Natacha Nisic (FR), Hans op de Beeck (BE), RYBN (FR), Manuel Saiz (ES), Alexander Schellow (DE), Antoine Schmitt (FR).

MULTIMEDIA CONCERT
@ Tabacalera, Future National Centre for Visual Arts
@ Reina Sofia National Museum
• A multimedia concert by Thomas Köner (DE), Futurism Manifesto. Free entrance.
• A multimedia concert by Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP), Rheo. Free entrance. Premiere in Spain.

FORUM
@ Sala Alcalá 31 of the Comunidad de Madrid
@ Reina Sofia National Museum
• On April 13-21. The Rencontres Internationales invite you to a late convivial breakfast with artists and filmmakers. Every day, professionals, curators, museums directors or independant organization directors will introduce their work and discuss with the audience.

LOOPED SCREENING
@ Sala Alcalá 31 of the Comunidad de Madrid
• April 13-21 (closed on Sunday). A screening programme shown in loop, dedicated to rare contemporary animated works, most of which are directed by visual artists.

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 various audiences. The venues in the three cities are in particular the Centre Pompidou and the Jeu de Paume national museum in Paris, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Reina Sofia National museum and the Spanish Cinematheque in Madrid.
The ‘Rencontres Internationales’ reflects specificities and convergences of artistic practices between new cinema and contemporary art, explores emerging media art practices and their critical purposes, and makes possible a necessary time when points of view meet and are exchanged.
The event aims at presenting works to a broad audience, at creating circulations between different art practices and between different audiences, as well as creating new exchanges between artists, filmmakers and professionals.
It seeks to contribute to a reflection on our contemporary culture of image via a compelling program opened to everyone.

COMPLETE PROGRAMME ON www.art-action.org