Art, Technology, Society
Ars Electronica

December 7 - 19, 2018

The international digital arts and media culture platform Ars Electronica reviews thousands of applications from around the world as part of its annual festival and the Prix Ars Cyber Arts Competition. Pera Film presents a selection of films from last year’s festival. From December 7 through December 19, the program will include films that are grouped under three titles: Narration, Late Nite and Expanded and Experimental.

Ars Electronica Animation Festival is one of the main activities of the Ars Electronica Center which pioneers in digital arts and is located in Linz, Austria. The program includes films from the Ars Electronica Animation Festival in September 2017 with a strong focus on visual language and diversity in narration, and showcases testimonials from artists about the rapid development of animation and its growing influence in daily life.

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December 7

19:00 Narration

December 8

13:30 Late Nite

December 9

13:30 Expanded & Experimental

December 15

13:30 Narration

December 16

13:30 Late Nite

December 19

19:00 Expanded & Experimental

Narration

Narration

Late Nite

Late Nite

Expanded & Experimental

Expanded & Experimental

Program Trailer

Art, Technology, Society
Ars Electronica

Pera Film presents a selection of films from last year’s Ars Electronica festival.

Serpent Head

Serpent Head

The Greek god Apollo and his son Asklepios presided over the realm of medicine and healing. Apollo was also the god of light and sun, whose solar symbolism and association with medicine would become linked to Christ the Physician, and the resurrected.

Postcard Nudes

Postcard Nudes

The various states of viewing nudity entered the Ottoman world on postcards before paintings. These postcards appeared in the 1890s, and became widespread in the 1910s, following the proclamation of the Second Constitutional Monarchy, traveling from hand to hand, city to city. 

Baby King

Baby King

1638, the year Louis XIV was born –his second name, Dieudonné, alluding to his God-given status– saw the diffusion of a cult of maternity encouraged by the very devout Anne of Austria, in thanks for the miracle by which she had given birth to an heir to the French throne. Simon François de Tours (1606-1671) painted the Queen in the guise of the Virgin Mary, and the young Louis XIV as the infant Jesus, in the allegorical portrait now in the Bishop’s Palace at Sens.