They say that a magician shouldn’t reveal his tricks. Matteo Canetta, Mikko Keskiivari and Stanisław Liguziński are going to try to prove that wrong, by putting up a show  in which they will expose their research processes into scaling, profanity and spectatorship.

Whether it were the Auguste and Louis Lumière brothers who decided that, or some anonymous projectionist long forgotten by the history, but the first public cinema screening opened with the film depicting the arrival of a train at the station (or at least, so legend has it). Such an iconic and self-conscious image: a modern technical wonder, carrying people on a journey. At that point the magician who bought the famous Theatre Robert Houdin - Georges Méliès - was yet to discover special effects and the cinema as a spectacle (as we mostly know it today).

Films were simple and lasted no longer  than a wellcrafted joke or a hasty prayer but their fate wasn’t decided yet. Celluloid reels were rolling at the fairs, enchanting the crowd with sheer movement, at stag parties, arousing the voyeuristic fantasies of men, at courts and salons providing news, gossip and images from distant lands and finally in archives and scientific facilities - seen as modern sources of history and tools for magnification and exploration. Matteo, Miko and Stan want to create the conditions of possibility for those magical, scientific and spiritual dimensions of the moving image to arise. Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to our (cinema) fair.

After the event at the cinema you are kindly invited on a guided tour through their installations which will conclude with a more informal forum for discussion and drinks.

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