Filmexplorer’s interest in expanded cinema takes on a concrete commitment here through the proposal of projects and special events that perform expanded cinema.
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Filmexplorer liest - Wenn Bücher zu Filmen werden
In Zusammenarbeit mit BuchBasel 2025 hat Ruth Baettig ein Experiment vorgeschlagen.
In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bildrausch Filmfest Basel 2025, wählten wir Pawel Lozinskis The Balcony Movie aus und diskutierten dessen Schaffung eines hybriden Raums zwischen Privatem und Öffentlichem an zwei konkreten Orten: dem LeNa-Haus im Westfeld Basel, sowie der Altstadt von Liestal.
The curatorsFabienne Liptay and Giuseppe Di Salvatore gather artists, curators and scholars from international and local communities for a public panel discussion on sirens, whose song can be transformed from attraction and warning into a vehicle of daydreaming and lucid imagination. In collaboration with the University of Zurich and Pro Helvetia Venice.
What if expanded cinema not only referred to cinema as a projection in space, but to the transportation of the immaterial experience of a film out of the black box and into the landscape or urbanscape? Starting from a film, Giorgio Andreotta Calò’s Nebula, we embarked from the exhibition space and on to a specific place in the landscape, the island of Sant’Andrea in the Venetian lagoon. Curated by Giuseppe Di Salvatore and Fabienne Liptay (University of Zurich).
Filmexplorer organises with the Stadtkino Basel cinema the projection of Wechselspiel – Wenn Peter Stamm schreibt, with a performative intervention with Luna Schmid, a discussion with the filmmakers Arne Kohlweyer und Georg Isenmann and a video intervention by Peter Stamm himself.
In Filmexplorer's Berlin Residency in 2023, Adina Ionescu Muscel explores the phytogram as an innovative artistic technique developed by Dutch artist Karel Doing. It involves placing plant materials such as flowers, leaves and roots, treated with vitamin C, onto a photosensitive emulsion and exposing it to light.
In Filmexplorer's Berlin Residency in 2023, Elian Mikkola takes the inspiration for his project from an old 35mm film print that appears to be a portion of the film Die Trapp-Familie, a German narrative film released in 1956. Together with archival sound bites and re-narration, the piece manifests ideas around transfeminist liberation and counter-archival acts.
In Filmexplorer's Residency 2023, collaborating with artist and filmmaker Gloria Regonesi to combine the media of physical modelmaking and film, this project critically examines the pervasive flatness and the artificial experiences it imposes upon us. It aspires to encourage a more profound connection between making, architecture, nature, and human experiences in the face of the challenges posed by the Anthropocene era.
In Filmexplorer's Berlin Residency 2022, Elin Eyborg elaborates on the idea of exploring the city through its geology. Everywhere in the city big and small construction sites are popping up, forming their own typology in the city, between quick fixes, big visions, revealing the deep layers of historical debris and geological conditions.
