The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin is a transdisciplinary event which maps contemporary developments in cinema, video and multimedia in the form of installation work, performance, audio creation, CD-ROM and net art.
The Rencontres aims to create an open ground on which different languages and audiences are brought together. An international line-up of work from young alongside established artists and filmmakers aims to encourage communication between different artistic and cultural disciplines.
The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin attempts to follow and outline the currents running between the various branches of contemporary art, between their respective publics, artists and directors and the geographical, artistic and cultural spaces they occupy both in Paris and Berlin.
Since the first festival in 1997, the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin has been conceived as an event which maps out the currents of contemporary creation. It shows works which explore the various means and languages of expression. It forces one to question the relationship between image, time and space, and takes a closer look at the language of cinematography, audiovisual and visual arts. The final selection constitutes a living creative laboratory inciting exploration and discovery. Our desire to investigate different means of creation with their different spaces and publics, teamed with our attempt to encourage communication between them, satisfies our principle of an open event . It enables the peculiarities and common characteristics, with regards to language and interpretation, to emerge from the fluidity of contemporary creation. We hope that this year's Rencontres will encourage similar opportunities for exchange.
The 2002-2003 call for entries resulted in 4000 proposals from 98 different countries. This appeal allowed us to come across some dense and rare material.
