Berlinale: Forum Expanded - Art, Conception and Experiments

Cinema is often a celebration of excess in the pursuit of success - in terms of profits, at least. (See most recently, James Cameron’s “Avatar”). You waste 200 million to earn 400 million. Waste as business model.

Forum Expanded pursues a different kind of excess. Here  ideas and experiments in moving images by 72 artists from all over the world are presented in 20 venues all over the city. A cornucopia of kinetic arts. Excess as inspiration to expand the understanding of what cinema can be. (more…)