Signal Cinema: Visualist, Those Who See Beyond (world premiere)

• 13.10.2019, 16:00
• place: Kino Světozor
• entry only for holders of Signal Pass (please bring the Pass with you)
• limited capacity
• with english subtitles

Signal Cinema is a new project of Signal Festival, which in the form of film screenings acquaints viewers with the work of the world’s most important digital or audiovisual artists, with occasional thematic overlaps into public space and ecology. The series of film screenings will be opened by the unique world premiere of the Spanish documentary Visualist, Those Who See Beyond.

Light has been a life-giving energy since ancient times. It inspires artists, transforms the character of the material objects or spaces in which they exhibit. Visualist brings portraits of artists from all over the world, for whom light is a kind of basic material and the underlying principle of creation. From Madrid to Berlin, from New York to San Francisco. From live Chemical Brothers concerts to video installations for Richie Hawtin, through eccentric projects by Gmunka, audio-visual live performance by Daito Manabe, experimental audio-visual projects and small gallery expositions. From the underground and alternative new media art scene to the mainstream giant events for hundreds of thousands of visitors.

Visualist is a story of the history of audiovisual art. And maybe the future. It follows those we don’t often see. Simply because they are hidden in the darkness of their own projections. Digital pioneers, artists who work perfectly with AV technology and want to constantly try new tools and methods.

The artistic value of photography or filmmaking has been questioned in the past, even though nowadays they are both undeniably recognized as artistic disciplines. This is how the Visualist document presents audiovisual art. As a confident, diverse and profound artistic format that arose from the city’s club scene and gradually walked through the closed doors to the world’s best galleries. As a form that belongs to the future.

The documentary features interviews with the following artists, including the Director of the Signal Festival, Martin Pošta, Daito Manabe, Herman Kolgen, Joanie Lemercier, 1024 Architecture, Myriam Bleau, Robert Henke, Pfadfinderei, Gmunk, Alba Corral, Alex Augier, Daniel Canogar, Adam Smith, Zach Lieberman, Merrill Aldighieri, Angel Molina, Itaru Yasuda, Matt Black, Light Surgeon, Playmodes, Skullmapping, Mr. Beam, Ali M. Demirel, Hamill Industries, Marta Verde and Steve Giralt.