On Wednesday, 29 November, the International Experimental Film Festival of Bucharest (BIEFF) is to carry on its series Politics of the Body, initiated in cooperation with the National Contemporary Arts Museum (MNAC), with a third screening: The Cinematic Body.

Starting from the “haptic visuality” concept – such as it is formulated in the reference paper “The Skin of the Film” by cinema theoretician Laura U. Marks – the programme proposes a very special sensorial-emotional, unfolding as a true seduction ritual. It will start with an inch-by-inch exploration of the cinematography corpus, of the film's tactile nature, seen as a source of sensations and emotions. Right after that, as a loved one is on a screen on which we project afterwards past experiences and sensations, exactly like that the films start a dialogue with other cinematic bodies, which they recycle, reinterpret and reanalyse in a continuous flow of the conscience and subconscious. In time, all these turn into a permanent process of knowing the other one and of self-knowledge. Gradually, the borders between oneself and the loved one, between the viewer and the film tend to dissolve, and the separation between audience and cinema seems to disappear.
The visiting hours of the Museum end at 18:00. The screenings will start at 19:00, în in the 4th floor-based café of MNAC.
The films to be screened were previously presented at the BIEFF's Editions as of 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017; they will have English subtitles. The shorts included in this programme are:
Coming Attractions (Peter Tscherkassky),
Image Fisherman (Alexandru Petru Bădeliță),
October Is Over (aren Akerman and Miguel Seabra Lopes),
Still Holding Still (Sarah Vanagt),
Dear Director (Marcus Lindeen),
The Shadow of Your Smile (Alexei Dmitriev),
Please Relax Now (Vika Kirchenbauer) and
What My Love Must See (François Bonenfant).
The tickets may be purchased online through Eventbook (RON 9) or at the entrance (RON 8).
Details at:
BIEFF