“From an eight-legged seductress to a piano playing chess: experimental film is very different to what it was a few years ago. […] New makers have appeared with new strategies.” That is the opening sentence of film³ [kyü-bik film] the book that accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam.

Through eleven in-depth interviews Anna Abrahams, filmmaker and head of our Dutch distribution office Filmbank, spotlights young Holland based filmmakers and visual artists who have enriched or renewed the language of film, who see outside the framework of the flat cinema screen and add an extra dimension to the presentation of their work.

Films are increasingly screened outside cinemas which is leading to the development of a new cinematic language. The ‘cubic films’ by the new generation of film artists are made to walk around or are augmented by live music or performance art. Cubic film is too arty for the cinemas and too cinematic for museums. How do filmmakers manifest themselves in this era of YouTube and Flickr? How do they use the latest computer technology in their work?

For more information on the book click here.