We want to bring the poetry of silent moving images back to the present!
As a group of musicians, artists and film professionals we create a platform for contemporary silent movies. Therefore we are building up a network and organise events to connect the roots of cinematography with the present aesthetics of image and live music production.
Click here to read more about the questions:
Can silent cinema still exist today and what defines a silent film?
Silence is not silent.
Click here to read a German text with information about the beginning of Moving Silence and our activities in Athens!
upUpcoming Events
April 19, 2013 – ITALY
Moving Silence event in Pordenone / Italy
Besides other the Moving Silence Voices Orchestra will perform.
details
upDocumentation of recent events:
March 2013
MOVING-SILENCE-FESTIVAL-ATHEN 2013
From March 28th-31st, 2013 we had our 4-Days-Festival in Athens/Greece at the Goethe-Institut Athen and Beton7. The festival's focus was on animation film, landscapes/soundscapes and vocal performances.
Click here to see the program summary!
The Festival was produced by Goethe-Institut Athen and the Moving Silence Platform in Collaboration with Beton7 and program participation by animasyros International Animation Festival + Forum
December 14+15, 2012 – CYPRUS
For the 2nd time we prepared a 2-Days Weekend of silent film in Nicosia/Cyprus in collaboration with ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation and Goethe Institut.
see program here
December 5, 2012 – LAS PALMAS
In 2012 we collaborated for the 3rd time with our friends at the Canary Islands. Dis-Play produced a Moving Silence Filmprogram at Dis-Play 12 on Las Palmas
see program here
November 4, 2012 – INDIA
We presened two filmprograms with live music performances during the Indo-German Urban Mela in New Delhi / India. Toni Kater, Marco Brosolo from Berlin, Mithilesh Kumar Jha and Stefan Kaye from Delhi performed live.
see full program here
With support of Goethe-Institut Delhi
The event is a project within the framework of "Germany and India 2011-2012: Infinite Opportunities" www.germany-and-india.com
October 2012
We showed a silent filmprogram on October 11th in Pordenone, Italy in collaboration with:
Cinemazero, Dentalcoop, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto
see more info here
watch the live sessions here
June 2012
Anastasia X. presented Moving Silence at SYSTEMS in Athens Greece at CAMP
Matthias Fritsch did a presentation on Moving Silence at June 7th at Shortcutz in Berlin Kreuzberg. The talk was be followed by a live improvisation by Tom Foerderer on three silent Shortfilms ("Egg Love", "Cerini" & "Wintersong")
April 2012
On April 16th we presented a silent film program at the HBK in Braunschweig/Germany on invitation by Prof. Michael Brynntrup and Filmforum.
Emi Hirai doing live animation, Fotos © by Karl Heinrich Weghorn
March 2012
MOVING SILENCE FESTIVAL IN ATHENS
Our 5-Days-Festival took place in Athens/Greece from March 21st - 26th, 2012 at Goethe Institut Athen and CAMP.
see festival program here
Official Festival Trailer by Hior Chronik & Metin Akbaş
or watch on Youtube
Shortfilm "Trust" with music performed by NatrYX
February 16th, 2012
As part of the Directors Lounge Festival we presented a filmprogram in Naherholung Sternchen, Berlin.
see program here
December 2nd & 3rd, 2011
Moving Silence Events in Nicosia (Cyprus) on December 2nd & 3rd, 2011 at the X-Dream Festival in collaboration with ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation and Goethe Institut.
see full program here
Moving Silence also presented a Filmprogram at Dis-Play 11 on Las Palmas at the Canary Islands on December 2nd, 2011
see program here
April 1st - 7th 2011
Moving Silence Events in Athens (Greece)
at Goethe Institut, The Crypt and M55 Projects
see full program here
February 18th, 2011
MOVING SILENCE Special performance at Deposit KG (Berlin)
more info
December 19th, 2010, 20:00
Moving Silence at Sputnik Kino (Berlin)
see program here
Dezember 12th, 2010, 22:00
Moving Silence at LICHTBLICKKINO (Berlin)
see program here
display invited Moving Silence for collaboration in a series of events in
- Las Palmas at Canary Islands (Dec 2nd&3rd, 2010)
read program here
- Mexico City (May 28th, 2010) at Electrovisiones
- Amsterdam (June 4th, 2010) at Smart project space
- Berlin (July 14th & 15th, 2010) at Instituto Cervantes
read program here
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Open Call
We like to invite artists, musicians, film professionals and anybody else who is interested to participate on our platform. If you are into the idea of developing contemporay silent movie culture feel welcome to get in touch with us.
Click here to get more specific information on our productionflow!
We are currently preparing various events in different European countries. Please contact us if you are interested in participation or if you like to host a moving silence event!
upFilmpool
Click here to get an overview of our filmpool. Please notice that most films are protected by password. Contact us if you like to produce an event or soundtrack and get access to the preview films!
upAssociated Partners & Collaborators
Germany
Directors Lounge (festival), Berlin
Naherholung Sternchen (club), Berlin
Regenbogenkino (cinema), Berlin
Sputnik Kino (cinema), Berlin
Lichtblick Kino (cinema), Berlin
ARTembassy (gallery), Berlin
Stummfilm:DJ (collective), Cologne & Munich
Czech Republic
Gallery Školská 28, Prague
Russia
Electro-Mechanica Festival, Sankt Peterburg
Italy
Le Giornate del Cinema Muto (festival), Pordenone
Greece
Goethe-Institut Athen
Beton7
CAMP (Contemporary Art Meeting Point), Athens
M55 (gallery), Athens
crypt / booze (club), Athens
6.D.O.G.S (club), Athens
Anima Syros (festival), Syros
Canary Islands
Display (collective & festival), Las Palmas
Cyprus
ARTos (cultural centre & foundation), Nicosia
Goethe-Institut Nicosia
India
Goethe-Institut Delhi
upContact
email: info@movingsilence.net
Moving Silence Athens Festival Facebook Page
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