24/04/2013 - The second edition of the first Italian festival dedicated to mash up and remix cinema culture will take place on May 8-11 in Rome

The second edition of the MAshRome FilmFest will take place in Rome on May 8-11. The festival is devoted to mash up and the culture of remix cinema, a form of language which mixes images and sounds from different pieces of work (documentaries, animation films, fiction films), contaminating them with each other as well as outside materials such as photos, creating new and original pieces of work.  

The festival, conceived and directed by Mariangela Matarozzo and Alessandra Lo Russo (read the interview), will feature mash-films, master classes and meetings with artists. A pre-opening mash up will be screened under the form of the majestic Final Cut: Ladies and Gentleman [+see also:
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interview: Gyorgy Palfi
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Another festival guest will be Mexican artist Carlos Amorales, the creator of the Liquid Archives (a digital archive started at the end of the 90s), which he uses for every piece of work he undertakes. The archive includes photos, images from magazines, books transformed into drawings, installations, slides, videos, disk covers, collages, paintings and sculptures.

Among the festival’s initiatives, a panel called Remix is Everywhere, which will feature artists and creative from the global art and creative scene. The panel will explore the themes of new technologies, new languages, new media and confront them with video, film and audiovisual materials. Participants will include directors György Pálfi, Antonietta De Lillo, Hakan Berber and Istvan Horkay.

(Translated from Italian)