Expanded Cinema

The Expanded Cinema "extended" in the 1960s and 1970s, the concept and practice of the cinematic. The " expanded cinema " not only a film projected onto a screen. It allows multiple projections with multiple screens, light shows or multimedia actions in which film, slide, overhead and video projections are connected with real actions (theater, dance). The extension range to performances without film projection. The actions reflect the medium of film at various levels: in its aesthetic, physical, technical, ideological or institutional conditions. The audience is often involved in the event.

Conceptual history

First, the concept of Sheldon Renan ( in his book The underground movie of 1967) and Gene Youngblood was used ( in his book Expanded Cinema of 1970):

" Expanded Cinema is not the name of a Particular style of film -making. It is a name for a spirit of inquiry did is leading in many different directions. It is expanded cinema to include many different projectors in the showing of one work [ ... ] to include computer- generated images and the electronic manipulation of images on television [ ... ] cinema expanded to the point at Which the effect of film 'may be produced without the use of film at all "

"When we say expanded cinema We actually mean expanded consciousness. Expanded cinema does not mean computer films, video phosphors, atomic light, or spherical Projections. Expanded cinema Is not a movie at all: like life's a process of becoming, man's ongoing historical drive to manifest his consciousness outside of his mind, in front of his eyes ".

Add video installations of the 1990s, numerous forms of Expanded Cinema were unconsciously and consciously resumed. The availability of video projectors can be projected onto screens with video footage had made ​​this artistic development.

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