The term “Live Cinema“ has hitherto been used primarily to describe the live musical accompaniment of silent movies. But that was yesterday. “Live Cinema“ today stands for the simultaneous creation of sound and image in real time by sonic and visual artists who collaborate to elaborate concepts on equal terms. The traditional parameters of narrative cinema are expanded by a much broader conception of cinematographic space, the focus of which is no longer the photographic construction of reality as seen by the camera’s eye, or linear forms of narration. The term “Cinema” is now to be understood as embracing all forms of configuring moving images, beginning with the animation of painted or synthetic images.

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“El Live Cinema no es cine. No hay una narración linear, actores o diálogos. En el cine los planos en los que no ocurre nada, por mucha fuerza visual que tengan, sólo sirven como transiciones. Este tipo de tomas son el material básico del Live Cinema: las transiciones, los movimientos, la pureza visual de la belleza y la intriga, la atmósfera. Pero por ahora, sólo existe como lenguaje oral, sin gramática escrita”, dice Solu, cuyo trabajo, además de la creación audiovisual en vivo, ha sido precisamente el de dotarla de esa gramática de la que hasta ahora carecía.

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A VJ is a performance artist who creates moving visual art (often video) on large displays or screens, often at events such as concerts, nightclubs and music festivals, and usually in conjunction with other performance art. This results in a live, multimedia performance that can include music, actors or dancers as well as live and pre-recorded video.

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