06/07/2026
Cinemaniac > think film 2026.
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Choreography of Violence: Counter – images
Jelena Jureša, Jean-Luc Godard, Nebojša Slijepčević
Curated by: Branka Benčić
On Friday, 10 July 2026, at Gallery Novo, the opening of the exhibition Cinemaniac > Thinking Film 2026: Counter-Images will take place at 9 PM.
The exhibition will remain open until 26 July 2026.
Over the last quarter of a century, CINEMANIAC > THINK FILM has been the international exhibition and research platform that challenges the connections among film, moving images, and contemporary art as part of the side programme of Pula Film Festival. The project operates within an interdisciplinary space where contemporary practices of audiovisual culture and art intersect, and is dedicated to systematic consideration of the tools, methodologies and media practices of contemporary artistic and curatorial work, in working with moving images, projector images, their interactions, and the ways to explore, contextualise, present, and receive them, creating active interaction of social and cultural fields.
Realised in cooperation with the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, the exhibition Choreography of Violence: Counter Images is the 25th edition of the Cinemaniac > Think Film side programme, which uses the language of moving images and audiovisual works by artists to explore the complex relationships between collective memory and political accountability, and challenges the ways in which history is reflected and reproduced in modern society. Choreography of Violence comes about as an extended dialogue with Jelena Jureša’s solo exhibition of the same name displayed at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka at the end of last year, and includes works by Nebojša Slijepčević and Jean-Luc Godard, in which art finds an opportunity to actively work towards a more just social and political future. These works confront us with historical truth and historical silence, and point to the potential of art to speak about the suppressed, forgotten, and unspeakable; exposing the social and collective ‘memory of history’ to establish a future horizon against oblivion.
Organization: MMSU Rijeka, Metamedia Association, Apoteka – Space for Contemporary Art
Partner: KASK – School of Art Ghe