Experimental Cinema

The fifth edition of Abstracta, the international exhibition of abstract cinema, will take place next August 25-28 in the Isola Tiberina, Rome. During its evening screenings, the festival will present 54 short films in both competitive and non-competitive sections.
This year's jury will be presided by Spanish filmmaker Javier Aguirre and comprised by Vanna Fadini (President of Link Campus University), Gerardo Lo Russo (Director of Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma), Pierluigi Raffaelli (Cofounder Cineteca Lucana), Gennaro Migliore (Cultural National responsible of S.E.L.), Saul Saguatti (filmmaker) and Anton Fuxjaeger (TFM, Universitaet Wien).

Between August 10th and August 18th, 2010, the 3rd edition of VIDEOHOLICA International Video Art Festival will be held in Varna accompanying AUGUST IN ART International Biennial of Visual Arts. During the festival 9-day duration, according to the VIDEOHOLICA 2010 motto 'KEEP THE ILLUSION ALIVE', various video selections and projects describing diverse concepts and interpretations of the term ‘illusion’ as a phenomenon discovered and studied with the techniques of video art will be screened and presented.

VIDEOHOLICA 2010's main program, which includes over 150 video art works (selected from more than 500), part of which thematically divided into the selections 'East Asia', 'Dance' , 'BG', will be presented in a series of evening screenings in four different open-air places, such as the inner yard of the Varna Archaeology Museum, the back yard of the Varna Puppet Theatre, the Rakovina open-air stage and the outside space of Music Cafe LOOK.