Crown Cinema \ Screening Halls for Single Viewers \ 13.08 – 20.09

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Crown Cinema \ Screening Halls for Single Viewers \ 13.08 – 20.09

Crown Cinema – Screening Halls for Single Viewers

“Crown Cinema” welcomes its spectators to attend screenings in the COVID-19 era, with three single-viewer screening halls: a momentary refuge of alternative, imagined, or documentary reality, a brief pause from a heady summer season in which the ruling crown is slipping and cracking, the streets of the city are filled with demonstrators, and the world is hanging in limbo and uncertainty.

The Crown Cinema features mostly films selected and screened over the past decade (2010-2019) at the Experimental Cinema and Video Art Competition in the framework of the Jerusalem International Film Festival. The competition is a unique space in the Israeli context for the screening of contemporary experimental video works. The films selected each year are screened alongside films from outside the competition chosen by the curator. Through subjects ranging from architecture and control, through history (real or imagined), utopias, distopias, Israeli reality, to the body and nature, and using an experimental cinematic language, the films are part of an ongoing dialogue, a critical or fantastic array of gazes on contemporary reality.

In days in which governmental institutions are collapsing and a pandemic is threatening the familiar paradigms of our existence, the Crown Cinema invites the viewer to to sink into the coolness of the theater and the comfort of its cushioned seats, and at the same time to cast a sober gaze at the reality of our lives; under the seductive cloak of the movie theater, 30 video works by local artists allow us to peer into the cracks – a powerful weapon in times of change.

The spectator is invited to choose her/his own hall and screening program. The duration of each program is about one hour. Entrance according to availability.

The exhibit was planned as part of the Intersections events at the Jerusalem International Film Festival

Participating artists: Adi Kaplan & Shahar Carmel, Amir Yatziv, Amitai Arnon & Ester Bires, Ariela Plotkin, Dan Robert Lahiani, Dorel gillerman & Agata wojcierwoska gillerman, Elham Rokni, Galia Galina Lyoloko, Guli Silberstein, Jonathan Doweck, Karen Russo, Leigh Orpaz, Maya Geller, Maya Zack, Naama Shohet, Nir Evron, Nira Pereg, Shai Ratner, Shir Handelsman, Tal Shochat, Tali Keren, Tamar Shippony and Mili Ben Hayl, Thalia Hoffman, Tzion Abraham Hazan ,Sagit Mezamer, Samantha Adler de Oliveira, Yahav Ger, Yaron Attar, Yeshaiahu Rabinowitz, Yitzhak Mizrahi.

Curator Yehudit Shlosberg-Yogev

Producer and Curator’s Assistant: Shahar Ben-Nun | Lightning: Ofer Laufer | Screening Hall Construction: Shimri Haggay | Screenings: Yoav Fisch | Sound: Amir Bolzman | Graphic Design: Maya Shleifer | English Translation: Tamar Cohen | Arabic Translation: Nagham AbuLeil

Thanks to: Vivian Ostrovsky, Ruby Eidelman – Machol Shalem, Tal Yahas

The exhibition is supported by The Ostrovsky Family Fund,  the Ministry of Culture and The Jerusalem Municipality.

 

 

About Us

The Mamuta Project is a center for artistic creation, encounters, research, and display of art. The Center, is an artist’s run space, developed and directed by the Sala-Manca Group. Mamuta is comprised of artists’ workspaces; video, sound, and electronics labs; a wood, metal, and plastics workshop. The goal of the project is to advance art projects and to create a framework for artists from different media, as well as curators, architects, designers, and researchers, who wish to create in the spirit of cooperation, dialogue, and technological innovation.

Mamuta offers guidance and support for the development of its artists’ individual projects, and initiates and produces projects at the Center as well as at other sites in and outside of Jerusalem—in cooperation with institutions and individuals in Israel and abroad. The project is dedicated to creating conditions for developing an active community of artists, allowing for personal development alongside collaborative work, through an engagement with the place and time.

A project by Sala-Manca Group (through Hearat Shulaym Foundation)

With the generous support of:

Ostrovsky Family Fund, Leichtag Foundation

From 2009 to August 2012 Mamuta project operated at El-Dan House, thanks to the kind support of Daniela Passal z”l, as a joint project by Hearat Shulaym and the Jerusalem Foundation. Since November 2013 Mamuta Center it operates at Hansen House.