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A clash has the potential to produce the most interesting and novel things, believes Sami van Ingen, a Finnish experimental filmmaker and visual artist.

Sami van Ingen experiments with the elements of cinema, deconstructing and reassembling distinct cinematic ingredients with the consciously impossible aim of getting closer to the true essence of cinema: a synthesis of concept, sound and moving image.

”I am not so much interested in cinematic narration as I am in the structures that make a movie – and in the artistic possibilities to abuse these structures.” Van Ingen believes there to be an aspect of research in all artistic processes, but finds it vital that the driving force behind a work of art is artistic rather than investigatory.

He is one of the artists whose work will be featured in the Research Pavilion in Venice. His contribution, a live cinema performance Conceptión (2017), is a combination of disused analogic film technology, found footage archives, and live performative elements. “The clash of these elements, all gathered from different directions, leads to a new unity, a new fiction.”


Sami van Ingen: Conceptión (2017),  a live cinema performance in 13 May at the Research Pavilion as part of Camino Events.

 

This article has originally been published in the May issue of Uniarts Helsinki's IssueX magazine, this time a special edition dedicated to the Research Pavilion.