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We are proud media partner of Kinomural.

On the 23rd of September in Wrocław, for the fifth time already, six gigantic screens will host 75 works by artists from all around the world. When the night falls, walls awaken – one of the mottos associated with Kinomural, is a perfect description of the event’s character.  

For this one night, the walls of the buildings that usually serve as someone’s home or workplace, will once again become an open-air gallery with a night video exhibition. One can walk through it, exploring one work after another, confront art, discuss and review the works, sharing one’s impressions with the other participants. The program will have moving murals, ephemeral projections in various forms: from video art through sound performance and experimental films, to audiovisual installations using 3D technology.

Kinomural is one of the few European events that showcase works by leading representatives of new media arts. Audio-visual artists often work hand-in-hand with the music, fashion, advertisement, and gaming industries, creating video clips, visuals, special effects, etc. Esteemed worldwide and invited for international collaborations around the globe, they largely shape modern art. The event’s program will allow the spectators to become familiar with the works by top creators of the world – live, outside of the confines of the Internet. 

Altered States of Consciousness [PROGRAM]

How can creators influence the spectator’s consciousness? Will Kinomural transport the audience to an abstract dimension of human minds? Will it shake the internal self? Those participating in the event will embark on a 2,5 hour journey through the rarely visited places called altered states of consciousness. A captivating, hypnotic, sometimes disturbing, often poetic experience.

Kinomural is a hybrid of One Thousand and One Nights with an open venue of the gigantic gallery made up by city yards and neighboring streets, closed for the time of the festival. The works by artists we have invited to this year’s edition of this exhibition render altered states of consciousness. They are various, as they lead one through a different path each time. There is a rate-of-passage journey of a protagonist, there is dreaming, there are out-of-body experiences and other instances of moving beyond the borders of the mind. There are sensations where we perceive temperature or gravity differently. Art teaches us how to lose control and to trust processes that go their own way. All it takes, really, is to get on the back seat, buckle up, and allow yourself to be driven places – say the program’s curators.

The walls – CHOREOGRAPHY OF DIVERSITY, BLACK TRIP, CALEIDOSCOPE OF EXPERIENCES – will display the works by artists selected by the members of the curatorial team: Adriana Prodeus, Bartek Bartos, Piotr Bartos. Each of them is a poetic odyssey through the wandering paths of the human psyche. The films by the 3D artist Steven Baltay are often described as “hypnotic” and “magical”. They oscillate between meditation and grotesque, creating a visual performance buzzing with a hypnotic, trans-like bizarreness. Through surrealistic landscapes and audacious humor, the artist pushes the boundaries of our imagination. The program has two of his animations: “Human Pachinko”, inspired by a Japanese arcade game, and “RIP”, juxtaposing the “classic” image of a woman with the forces of desire, that destructive feeling capable of transforming anything into objects of possession.

RubenFro (Ruben Frosali) is an artist working with visual effects and a director, specialized in volumetric captures, point clouds, and large particles.  He has collaborated with artists on video clips, where he was responsible for VFX. As Head of Cinematics in JADU AR, he worked with Michael Bay on cinema trailers, for instance. The program of Kinomural features his black-and-white animations.

Jon Noorlander is the creative director at Method Studios in New York. He created animations, commercials, and films for MTV, Nascar, Nike, Range Rover, Syfy, VW, eBay, and FOX.
The program of Kinomural includes his animation titled “Club” – a dark and unending continuum of struggle of a living substance in the abyss of ruthless laws. 

Sholim is a visual artist and animator creating video loops of several seconds in which human faces, vintage clips, and landscapes transform in strange ways. His works are published in the social media, and the fantastic worlds he creates, coined a “digital surrealism” have met with great appreciation. He has collaborated extensively with the music industry – Spotify, HYDE (videoclip for “OUT”) and BEKON, as well as with the world of fashion – Marcelo Burlon, Gucci, Converse. At Kinomural, the artist will present a specially prepared collage of his works.  

Jamie Wolfe ‒ an American animation director and visual artist currently living and working in Los Angeles. Best known for her animated short films and music videos, which have been presented at festivals and in galleries worldwide, she has also collaborated with musicians like King Krule, Local Natives and The Rolling Stones, and has been commissioned by places like Adult Swim, Gucci, and Giphy.

Ryan D. Anderson – a comedian, creator of animation, and filmmaker. His animations are inspired by random texts that pop up in his head, and his style is based on illustrations and vintage comics from the 60s and 90s. The program will have three of his works, including “Plane Ride”, which will be displayed simultaneously on all walls at the closing of the event. 

Cody Samson a.k.a. Shmody is an audio-visual artist and designer specialized in animation and sound design for events and installations. His portfolio also contains numerous collaborations with the music industry, including Alt-J, the American singer Halsey, and the band Alabama Shakes. Kinomural will have two of his animations: one is a collaboration with the video artist Clayton McCracken and is an impressionist visualization of various dimensions of consciousness, while the other explores the complex relationship between human and artificial consciousness in the context of both natural and human-made environments. 

DREAM BUCKETS is a wall curated by Peter Burr – a New York-based artist whose works have been shown at MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art PS1 in New York and the Barbican Centre in London. This wall will present his selection of other American artists’ visions, exploring the liminal space between individual dreaming and shared living.

BED-TIME CARTOON will take the youngest viewers on a journey through daydreams created by human imagination. Among the artists whose works we will see here, is Shi-Rou Huang – a director of animation and illustrator specialized in classic manual 2D animation.
Her films delve into female consciousness. Under the delicate and clouded colors of her works there is a poetic and emotional story that defines this young and greatly talented artist. The animated film “Girl in the Water”, which will be screened at this year’s Kinomural, has already been presented at over 90 film festivals.

As we well know, right after the bed-time cartoon comes the time for Polish and world news. In this case, this will be the news from the remote past of the Universe. It will be provided by Guli Silberstein – a London-based filmmaker and artist working with found footage, glitch aesthetics, and artificial intelligence. The screening of his “Cycles of Creation” will be a special event, as well as the first feature animation shown at the festival.

The GREAT DREAMS wall will belong to 17 artists selected in this year’s OPEN CALL, whose subject matter was the dream phenomenon. Three of these works will be given a financial award by the Jury. 

But this is not all. One day before that happens, on the 22nd of September, Adriana Prodeus, together with the curator Becca Keating and the artists Guli Silberstein and Zbiok Czajkowski, will talk about the place of art in the public space. The debate titled “When you are visited by Zlatan, it is you who becomes the guest”, will take place in the “Pod Ciśnieniem” venue, with free admission.

KINOMURAL

September 23, 2023, 7:30-10:00 p.m., admission free. 

Venues: Wrocław, Przedmieście Odrzańskie – Jagiellończyka 40, Trzebnicka 19-21, Św. Wincentego 39a-41a, Niemcewicza 30b, Niemcewicza 27, and Ołbińska 16.

More information: www.kinomural.com