Moving Silence II

Following the great success of the first Moving Silence event in Cyprus, held last December at the ARTos Foundation, the second Moving Silence event will take place this year within the framework of the 4th X-Dream Festival. On Friday 14th and Saturday 15th of December 2012, musicians from Germany, Japan, Greece and Cyprus will meet at the ARTos Foundation to perform live soundtracks for "silent" video and film works by contemporary creators. On the second day of this special two-day event, performances will take place with unique self-made instruments.

"The contemporary cinema could take back this expressive freedom" the Moving Silence members state. "Any visual style can profit from a sound language, by using advanced digital technologies as well as old analog techniques. Live performances sustain and amplify the films as musicians can breathe new life into silent cinema, which inappropriately remained silent for such a long time." Encouraging collaboration and exchange between musicians, artists and cinematographers, the Moving Silence platform therefore invites the Nicosia audience to new audiovisual experiences expressed through live improvisations and interpretations, where experimental image and sound are expected to meet in unusual and unexpected ways.

Moving Silence was originally founded in summer 2009 by the musician Marco Brosolo, filmmaker Matthias Fritsch and producer Federico Bassetti with the aim to create events that connect the roots of cinematography with the present aesthetics of image, the live music production and the potential of new technology. It constitutes a poetic, intercultural and collaborative attempt in times of information overload. It embraces experimentation and merging between contemporary forms of visual and sound inviting artists from different parts of the world to join in. Moving Silence events have taken place in different cities around Europe.

Within the framework of the 4th X-Dream Festival