With the presence of 120 artists and filmmakers from all-over the world, this rare event will propose an international programme of film, video, multimedia. It includes many film premieres, a video program, a media art exhibition, multimedia concerts, a c

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/MadridNew cinema and contemporary artIn Madrid, April 12-21, 2010EXHIBITION OPENING
Monday April 12th, from 7PMat the Tabacalera - future National Centre for Visual ArtsCalle Embajadores 53, 28012 Madrid
Free entrance
OPENING SCREENING
Tuesday April 13that the Reina Sofia National MuseumAuditorio 200 - Ampliación, access by Ronda de Atocha
7PM: Screening9PM: Multimedia concertOn April 12-21, 2010, the "Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid" will create a space of discovery and reflection between new cinema and contemporary art in Madrid: • at the Tabacalera - future National Centre for Visual Arts, • the Reina Sofia National Museum,• the Spanish Cinemateque.• the Room Alcalá 31 of the Comunidad de Madrid.With the presence of 120 artists and filmmakers from all-over the world, this rare event will propose an international programme of film, video, multimedia. It includes many film premieres, a video program, a media art exhibition, multimedia concerts, a cycle of debates and panel discussions. A video library will offer a space where the whole programming, made up 90% of premieres, can be viewed and reviewed on request.This year's programme has been selected from 5500 submissions as well as by invitations made to certain artists and filmmakers. It is the result of an elaborate international search for works: 150 works from Germany, France, Spain and 50 other countries, made up of internationally-known artists and filmmakers as well as young artists and filmmakers presented for the first time. FILMS AND VIDEO SCREENINGS(new fiction, documentaries, video, experimental)• Carte blanche given to Werner Schroeter (DE) .• The second chapter of the retrospective honoring reputed Armenian director, Artavazd Pelechian, initiated last year will be presented by Pelechian.• The film event Pedro Costa’s latest film Ne Change Rien (2009, sneak-preview) presented by the director and Jeanne Balibar.• Carte blanche given to Harun Farocki (DE).• Two new films by Ken Jacobs (USA), ‘The Day was a scorcher’ and an excerpt from ‘The Sky Socialist Stratified’.• Sneak-preview screening of the feature film by Christian Merlhiot (FR) ‘Le Procès d’Oscar Wilde’.• Two short films by Tsaï Ming-liang (TW) including 'Madame Butterfly' (2008) and by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (TH), 'A letter to Uncle Boonmee' (2009)• The newest works by Hans op de Beeck (BE) - Ben Rivers (UK) - Charlotte Ginsborg (UK) - Julius Ziz (USA) - Zapruder (IT) - Diego Del Pozo Barriuso (ES) - Philip Warnell (UK) - Ariane Michel (FR) - Eija-Liisa Ahtila (FN) – Emmanuelle Antille (CH)From the programmed artists: Carles Asensio Monrabà (Spain), Patrick Bernatchez (CA), Francois Bucher (CO), Jonathan Cummins (IR), Johanna Domke (DE), Peter Downsbrough (USA), Ivan Faktor (CR), Elise Florenty (FR), Dora Garcia (ES), Bouchra Khalili (MA), Almagul Menlibayeva (KZ), Eleonore de Montesquiou (FR), Natacha Nisic (FR), Vivian Ostrovsky (FR), Antoni Pinent (ES), Jérôme Schlomoff (FR), Volker Schreiner (DE), Yu Chin Tseng (TW), Liu Wei (CN).Each screening is built around a transversal theme, creating a questioning that stretches across different forms and audiovisual practices.MEDIA ART EXHIBITIONLa Tabacalera is a former tobacco factory which, after lying in disrepair for almost ten years, is to become the future National Centre for Visual Arts. A massive space with intriguing architecture and history, its space and current halls loans themselves particularly well to the exhibition of contemporary art works. The exhibition brings together the work of 17 international artists: Patrick Bernatchez  (CA), Tony Cokes  (US), Diego del Pozo Barriuso  (ES), Peter Downsbrough  (US), Pieter Geenen  (BE), Chia-wei Hsu  (TW), Ryoji Ikeda  (JP), Joan Leandre  (ES), Gordon Matta Clark (US), Anthony McCall  (US), Francis Naranjo  (ES), Natacha Nisic  (FR), Hans op de Beeck  (BE), RYBN  (FR), Manuel Saiz  (ES), Alexander Schellow  (DE), Antoine Schmitt  (FR).MULTIMEDIA CONCERTA multimedia concert by Thomas Köner (DE), Futurism Manifesto. Spanish Premiere.A multimedia performance by Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP), Rheo. Spanish Premiere.
DEBATES / FORUMThe Rencontres Internationales invites filmmakers, curators, artistic directors and programmers from European and extra-European national museums, contemporary art centres and biennales in the fields of contemporary cinema, video and new media. The proposed debates aim to develop a reflection on the concerns and tracks explored in each country in order to debrief this creation and accompany it, as much from a critical point of view, as from the point of view of the public and the artists.Detailed program and presentation of debate participants: from April 17.
VIDEO LIBRARYThe complete program, of which 95% is presented as a world premiere, can be viewed on request in the video library.