NEWS

Vertical Cinema at the Academy of Motion Pictures Museum, LA

Looking Back: Vertical Cinema at GEGENkino

Last week Vertical Cinema traveled to Leipzig for a screening at the alternative cinema festival GEGENkino. The screening, a German debut, attracted more than 400 visitors filling the seats of the Paul Gerhardt Church.

Vertical Cinema at GEGENkino in Leipzig

Vertical Cinema will be screened in Germany for the first time as part of the GEGENkino festival programme on 28 April 2016.

Looking Back: Vertical Cinema at Baltā Nakts

Vertical Cinema was in Riga for a double screening at Baltā Nakts.

Looking Back: Vertical Cinema at MIFF

This month, Vertical Cinema was in Melbourne for its Australian premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). On the 14th of August, the Vertical Cinema films were screened twice for a full house at the spectacular Deakin Edge theatre.

Vertical Cinema at Baltā Nakts 2015

Vertical Cinema is part of Riga’s Baltā Nakts on 5 September 2015.

Vertical Cinema’s Australian premiere at MIFF

Sonic Acts is thrilled to announce Vertical Cinema’s Australian premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF).

Vertical Cinema at STRP Biennal 2015

Next stop for Vertical Cinema is the STRP Biennial in Eindhoven on Thursday 26 March 2015. The STRP Biennial 2015 is all about the screen. Between 20 and 29 March, the industrial halls of the Klokgebouw in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, will be filled with hybrid forms of art, technology and music. Vertical Cinema is part of the STRP exhibition SCREEN ON | NO SCREEN.

LOOKING BACK: VERTICAL CINEMA AT SXSW AND GLASGOW SHORT FILM FESTIVAL

Earlier this month Vertical Cinema kicked off the Glasgow Short Film Festival with a sold out screening and had its North American premiere at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Austin, Texas.

VERTICAL CINEMA’S NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE AT SXSW FESTIVAL

Sonic Acts is proud to announce Vertical Cinema’s US premiere at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas. A double screening will take place on the 17th of March 2015.

Vertical Cinema opens Glasgow Short Film Festival

Glasgow Short Film Festival 2015 opens on Wednesday 11 March in spectacular style with a sold out screening of Vertical Cinema in the Briggait in Glasgow.

Vertical Cinema UK premiere at Leeds International Film Festival

Vertical Cinema will have its UK premiere at the Leeds International Film Festival, with two sold-out screenings on Friday 7 November 2014 in the spectacular setting of Left Bank Leeds.

Vertical Cinema at Stedelijk was a great success!

Vertical Cinema at Stedelijk is over. The four days of sold out screenings in the Dan Flavin Hall of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and lectures by the renown speakers Erica Balsom, Bart Rutten, Noam Elcott and Philippe-Alain Michaud were a great experience, thanks to you, the visitors!

Vertical Cinema: Expanded Lectures at Stedelijk

An additional programme of lectures by international speakers focuses on the history of vertical and other forms of expanded cinema and explores the future of audio-visual experiments. All lectures will be held in English, with the exception of the lecture by Bart Rutten on Sunday 23 February, which will be in Dutch.

Call for volunteers!

Call for volunteers: we need your support to make Sonic Acts happen!
We offer invaluable experience, some goodies, and a great atmosphere. Apply by sending an email to info@sonicacts.com.

Vertical Cinema at Stedelijk Amsterdam 20-23 February

20-23 February, Vertical Cinema will be on show in Stedelijk Amsterdam.

Early bird tickets for a reduced price now on sale at the Sonic Acts shop.

During the four days, expanded lectures & workshops will accompany the impressive screenings of the ten Vertical Cinema-works.

Vertical Cinema: Synchronator Workshop at STEIM 21 Feb

Friday 21 Feb, the Synchronator workshop will take place at STEIM. The Synchronator device converts electronic audio signals into composite video signals.
11:00-15:00
Admission: € 20,00
Register via info@sonicacts.com

Very successful international premiere at IFFR

The international premiere of Vertical Cinema at the International Film Festival Rotterdam on 24 January is a fact.

Last Friday, your enthusiasm and support was endless in a packed Arminius – twice! Thank you!

Both IFFR-screenings sold out, come to Amsterdam 20-23 Feb

It is unbelievable but true: the second screening of Vertical Cinema during IFFR is also sold out.
The next screenings will take place 20 – 23 February at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Tickets will be available soon!

Great news: second screening during IFFR!

We’re happy to share the good news: there will be a second screening of Vertical Cinema on 24 January!
Tickets are available via IFFR – better get them quick!

Sonic Acts presents: Vertical Cinema Screening at IFFR

On 24 January, the international premiere of Vertical Cinema will take place as part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) at Arminius Rotterdam.

Vertical Cinema Screening
24 January 2014, 19:45
Arminius, Museumpark 3, Rotterdam

Vertical Cinema Workshop in cooperation with Piet Zwart Institute & Filmwerkplaats Rotterdam

A special Vertical Cinema workshop organised by Sonic Acts in cooperation with Piet Zwart Institute and Filmwerkplaats Rotterdam will be hosted by V2_ and Piet Zwart Institute.

The two-day workshop, on 23 and 24 January, will feature lecture presentations by Tina Frank, Esther Urlus, and others.

Vertical Performance at Mind The Gap Nights

COH & FRANK will present a new collaboration on 24 January in which video images are generated from sound output of the mixing board, in an entirely analogue transfer from sound to image as part of the Mind The Gap Nights, a collaboration between IFFR and Gonzo (Circus).

Vertical Cinema Lecture ‘Up and Down the Shaft of Time’ by Erkki Huhtamo on 23 Jan

On Thursday 23 January, the day before the screening of Vertical Cinema, UCLA- professor Erkki Huhtamo will prelude the programme with the lecture “Up and Down the Shaft of Time: An Archeology of Verticality”. He will elaborate on verticality as a cultural phenomenon.
23 January, 19.00 hrs at LantarenVenster, Rotterdam

Upcoming: Sonic Acts presents Space Debris: new year’s reception & book launch

On 18 January, Sonic Acts and Gonzo Circus would like to invite you to celebrate the start of a new year and the launch of the ‘The Dark Universe’ publication with us with an afternoon at De Balie Amsterdam about space debris. Reservation (required) via reservation@sonicacts.com

Ticket sale started! – International premiere of Vertical Cinema at IFFR 2014

The ticket sale for the international premiere of Vertical Cinema on 24 January 2014 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam has started.
The screening of the ten commissioned large-scale works will be accompanied by a lecture by Professor Erkki Huhtamo, live performances and a workshop in cooperation with Piet Zwart Institute and Filmwerkplaats Rotterdam.

Vertical Cinema Cahier now available

Vertical Cinema is a unique project featuring a series of ten commissioned vertical films made in 2013 by internationally renowned experimental filmmakers and audiovisual artists. This monumental screening of their 35 mm vertical cinemascope films premiered at the 2013 edition of the Kontraste Dark As Light Festival, where Kontraste Cahier #3 was presented.