Within ArtDoc & ProArt, cinema becomes a process of thinking, inviting the viewer to reconsider notions of reality, the body, gender, space, and the role of art in the contemporary world. This programme does not offer comfortable viewing, but rather an intense experience of presence — cinema as a visual, intellectual, and emotional event.
“The programme clearly reveals a tendency to rethink the relationship between art and society — both through personal memories and biographical layers, and through collective historical traumas and cultural symbols. The films balance between documentary and poetic abstraction, between observation and performative acts, often employing minimalism, fragmentation, and visual metaphor as their primary expressive tools,” says Vaiva Bauze, curator of the programme.