Albert Serra and Abel Ferrara at Art-kino
Published: 03.02.2020.
The biggest edition yet of Film Mutations brings to Art-kino numerous guests and programmes, including the premiere of Albert Serra's Liberté, Abel Ferrara's Tommaso and the cinema concert by Abel Ferrara and the Band on Saturday.
This year’s festival-symposium edition of Film Mutations: Festival of Invisible Cinema called Kinoclash! Film + Power, organised as part of Rijeka 2020 – European Capital of Culture’s flagship named Times of Power, brings a series of events to Art-kino from 6 to 9 February where numerous international guests will participate in questioning the relation between film and power. The festival opens on Thursday, 6 February at 20:00 with a discussion between philosopher Alexander García Düttmann and Spanish director Albert Serra, and the premiere of Serra’s new provocative film Liberté (2019). In the afternoon hours of the opening day, two film blocks will be held: Film Borders - Pasolini at 16:00 and Film or Power at 18:00, in which eponymous film by the great Croatian avant-garde artist Vlado Kristl will be screened.
The programme continues the following morning at 11:00 with the Cinema Conversation featuring Abel Ferrara and Albert Serra, producer and performer Montse Triola, actress Cristina Chiriac, film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum and band members of Abel Ferrara and the Band - composer Joe Delia and actor and singer Paul Hipp. After a varied afternoon film programme partly chosen by Albert Serra himself, the legend of the American independent film Abel Ferrara will present his new film Tommaso (2019) starring Willem Dafoe, together with protagonist Cristina Chiriac and music composers at 20:00. A conversation with the director and lead actress will be held after the premiere.
Saturday's all-day Film Mutations programme starts at 11:00 with an interdisciplinary symposium Power of Kinoclash about Kino-Eye politics, moderated by curators Branka Benčić and Tanja Vrvilo. The focal point of the symposium will be the transgressive loop of the anarchy of power in the expanded century of cinema: from the futuristic manifestos without film to the art of motion pictures after the future. In the afternoon, the programme continues with three diverse programme blocks, chosen by film essayist and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum, cinematographer and Cinémathèque Française curator Nicole Brenez and film-maker Paul Grivas.
On the same day, starting at 22:00, a cinema concert by Abel Ferrara and the Band, consisting of Abel Ferrara, Joe Delia, Paul Hipp, Cristina Chiriac, PJ Delia and guests, will be held at Art-kino. As part of a unique music-film experience, Ferrara's band will perform music from his cult films such as Bad Lieutenant, 444 - Last Day on Earth, China Girl and others.
The closing day of the festival brings in the afternoon a film block chosen by Nicole Brenez, including the recently banned documentary El Grito, often placed at the top of the lists of major Mexican films. The Film Mutations festival programme concludes with a screening of one of the most controversial films of all times, the anti-war horror drama Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom by the great Pier Paolo Pasolini.
Tickets can be booked via email (ulaznice@art-kino.org) and purchased at the Art-kino box office every day from 16:00 to 20:30 or online (www.ulaznice.hr). Students are allowed free admission to all film and music programmes of Film Mutations with the presentation of their student card.