Cinemania 2010: The InVisible MAFAF

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Published on Saturday, 24 July 2010 20:21

Written by Bree Rubin

Established in 2002 as the support program at the Pula Film Festival, the 9th annual Cinemaniac festival is a multimedia exhibition of experimental film making running from July 18th through August 6th at the Gallery Anex and Gallery Luka (MMC LUKA) in Croatia. Cinemania 2010: The InVisible MAFAF exhibition is dedicated to the MAFAF - the Inter cine club Alternative Amateur and Artist Film Festival, which ran from 1965 to 1990 in Pula as an annual prelude to the Yugoslav Feature Film Festival. 

This year's festival aims to resurrect and re-contextualize the history of the nearly completely forgotten European film festival. Despite its 25 years as the biggest event dedicated to alternative and non-professional film making in Yugoslavia, the MAFAF seemed to have dropped from the collective memory, becoming invisible in the public eye. The Cinemaniac exhibition, curated by Branka Bencic and pieced together through rare documents and fragile archives, seeks “to provide room for a subjective critical reinterpretation which would be shorn of eulogy and myth.” The event aspires to make the invisible visible once more.

Throughout its nearly three decades, the MAFAF showcased the works of such talents as Tomislav Gotovac, Želimir Žilnik, Vladimir Petek, Lordan Zafranović, Franci Slak, Ivan Faktor, Zdravko Mustać, Boris Poljak, Vladislav Knežević, Josip Zanki, and Dan Oki. Cinemaniac 2010 will bring the lost festival deliberately into present context by inviting to Pula several of the erstwhile MAFAF participants along with a new generation of contemporary visual artists. In essence, the event hopes to not only summon ghosts of the departed festival, but to highlight its larger connection to the procession of experimental videography toward the future.

Cinemania 2010: The InVisible MAFAF is also seen as a research platform, a project which will be implemented in phases in several recognizable presentation formats - exhibitions, film screenings program, a series of talks - a panel discussion - symposium, publications: catalog, collection, and will play a significant role in creating archives and storing and collecting materials to protect the festival from falling again into invisibility.

For exhibit schedule and more information go to www.pulafilmfestival.hr/hr/index.php?p=list&group=67

Cinemania 2010: The InVisible MAFAF
July 18th - August 6th, 2010
Gallery Anex and Gallery Luka (MMC LUKA)
Croatia

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