Artists’ Cinema: Jasmina Cibic

The program brings together several works by Jasmina Cibic shaped around the idea of architecture and discourses it produces. Architecture as a performative gesture understood as text and context. Its central focus is an inquiry into the ways in which architecture can become the incarnation of national ideologies. Architecture plays a significant role, becoming an important protagonist, acting not just as a décor or setting, but cast as a subjective relation – as a fictional character.

The program gathers recent film production by Jasmina Cibic between 2013 and 2015, from the works exhibited at the Slovenian pavilion at the Venice biennale (2013), followed by her recent trilogy Spielraum (2015) to her latest production The Pavillion (2015).

Program

Tear Down and rebuild (2015), 15.30 min /The Nation loves it (2015), 15.45 min / The Double Game (2014), 2.37 min /Framing the Space (2013), 10.45 min /The Pavilion (2015), 6.45 min / Total running time: 52 min

ARTISTS’ CINEMA is a screening program at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb established in 2012, aimed at introducing contemporary artists and their cinematic works, created at the meeting point of contemporary art and cinema, of film and visual arts. The program presents recent works of film/video outside the context of production of entertainment and spectacle as well as introducing historical perspectives and developments. It completes the programming of the Museum and complement the presentation of this hybrid form. It is aimed to intensify the dialog and exchange on the cultural scene of the city, connecting artists, curators, and critics with the public; in this way it will contribute to an active internationalization of the art scene engaged in the media of moving images.