In a time where film and moving images are mostly viewed on private screens and where on the other hand bigger franchises and multiplexes are still dominating, Anouk De Clercq takes Where is Cinema (2019, Archive Books) and her 35mm film Black (2015) as a starting point for a reflection on the opportunities and challenges in trying to build a culture and a social space centered around film as an art form.
Black, Anouk De Clercq, Bélgica, 2015, 5'
Simultaneously boundless and intimate, collective and personal, an ode to and an example of a cinematic experience that is becoming increasingly rare, the darkness of a movie theatre in the course of the projection of a 35mm film print.
In a time where film and moving images are mostly viewed on private screens and where on the other hand bigger franchises and multiplexes are still dominating, Anouk De Clercq takes Where is Cinema (2019, Archive Books) and her 35mm film Black (2015) as a starting point for a reflection on the opportunities and challenges in trying to build a culture and a social space centered around film as an art form.