Moving Silence

Following the great success of Moving Silence in Cyprus in 2011 and 2012 at the ARTos Foundation, Moving Silence takes place for the third consecutive year in collaboration with the Goethe Institut Cyprus. On Friday 6 December 2013 at 20:30 at the ARTos Foundation musicians and composers from Germany, Greece and Cyprus will meet to perform live soundtracks for video and film works without sound by contemporary creators of their choice. The audience will have a unique experience where the musicians-composers perform live their music while the films/videos that ave inspired them are simultaneously screened. On the same evening performances with unique self-made and non-conventional instruments will take place.

"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.

What is Moving Silence?

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.

Participating, among others, are Marco Brosolo (DE / IT), Toni Kater (Anett Ecklebe) (DE), Pitchtuner (Johannes Marx) (DE), Natryx (GR), Tomash Ghzegovskyy (CY), Tat Tnabar (CY)