Fondazione CinemaO

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Fondazione CinemaO

What happens in a cinema when the projector is off? CinemaO is a new hybrid space in Milan, reimagining what cinemas can be.

A home and a community dedicated to moving image research, production and film‑tech innovation.

18/07/2026

𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐬
Programme curated by Arindam Sen
22–23 July 2026, 21:00 · CinemaO, Milan

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Before any light-capturing device, the first animal eyelid was cinema — “scene one, take one” (Andrew Noren). Looking at Animals vitalises the productive linkages between representational animacy and film’s material and structural properties, towards a more congenial inter-species future.

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𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞 𝟐 — 𝟐𝟑 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 · 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝟏𝟔𝐦𝐦 · 𝐓𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞: 𝟕𝟖’
⟢ Burial Path — Stan Brakhage, 1978, 11’ · Silent, Color
The film begins with an image of a dead bird. The mind moves to forget, as well as to remember: this film graphs the process of forgetfulness against all oddities of the remembered bird-shape.

⟢ Ginko Yellow — Amy Halpern, 2022, 5’ · Silent, Color
«Yellow, the color.» — A.H.

⟢ Newt Leaders — Amy Halpern, 2020, 4’ · Silent, Color
The physically necessary film leaders at the front and back end of movies as aesthetic in themselves. The beautiful detritus of the medium. — A.H.

⟢ Rat Life and Diet in North America — Joyce Wieland, 1968, 16’ · Sound, Color
Rebels (enacted by real rats) and police (enacted by real cats). After long suffering under the cats, the rats break out of prison and escape to Canada. — Jonas Mekas

⟢ The Loom — Stan Brakhage, 1986, 42’ · Silent, Color
Inspired by Georges Méliès: the animals exist as on a stage, their interrelationships edited to the disciplines of dance.

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About the curator: 𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦 𝐒𝐞𝐧
Arindam Sen curates and writes on experimental, artists’, and documentary film. Co-founder of the Brussels-based platform Cinema Parenthèse and author of Distant Voices (Stereo Editions, 2024). He has written for Millennium Film Journal, Texte Zur Kunst, and Sabzian.

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Presented in partnership with 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐨
A nomadic curatorial project founded in Milan in 2024 by Tommaso Isabella and Massimo Mosca, dedicated to non-conventional cinema screened in its original format — primarily 16mm.

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Free admission with CinemaO membership card (5€/year).

17/07/2026

𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐬
Programme curated by Arindam Sen
22–23 July 2026, 21:00 · CinemaO, Milan

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Before any light-capturing device, the first animal eyelid was cinema — “scene one, take one” (Andrew Noren). Looking at Animals vitalises the productive linkages between representational animacy and film’s material and structural properties, towards a more congenial inter-species future.

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𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞 𝟏 — 𝟐𝟐 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 · 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝟏𝟔𝐦𝐦 · 𝐓𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞: 𝟕𝟎’

⟢ Animal Studies — Guy Sherwin, 1998–2004, 25’ · Silent, B&W
A set of films of inconsequential animal movements, hand-printed in a variety of ways, using changes of light, geometry, time.

⟢ Habitat Batracien — Rose Lowder, 2008, 8’ · Silent, Color
Moving away from the notion of a preconceived work, the film allows us to enter the temporal dimension of a pond full of frogs.

⟢ Tartarughe D’acqua — Rose Lowder, 2016, 24’ · Silent, Color
A small pond in Asti, Piemonte, home to a great number of protected turtles — Trachemys scripta and Trachemys scripta elegans.

⟢ Cat Food — Joyce Wieland, 1967, 13’ · Sound, Color
A cat eats its methodical way through a polymorphous fish. The projector devours the ribbon of film at the same rate, methodically.

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About the curator: 𝐀𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐦 𝐒𝐞𝐧
Arindam Sen curates and writes on experimental, artists’, and documentary film. Co-founder of the Brussels-based platform Cinema Parenthèse and author of Distant Voices (Stereo Editions, 2024). He has written for Millennium Film Journal, Texte Zur Kunst, and Sabzian.

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Presented in partnership with 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐨
A nomadic curatorial project founded in Milan in 2024 by Tommaso Isabella and Massimo Mosca, dedicated to non-conventional cinema screened in its original format — primarily 16mm. The programme fosters dialogues between moving-image practices, sound and performance art, with conversations and expanded cinema performances by international artists.

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Free admission with CinemaO membership card (€5/year).

02/07/2026

Frames from tonight’s screening at CinemaO

☁️ ✨ 🌙 ˚ ༘ ⋆｡˚ 🕯️ 🌫️ 💭 🫧

𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬
𝐂𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬 (𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐈)�
Thursday, 2 July 2026�
Curated by Paula Veindenbauma

𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐 | 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬

⟢ God Moves on the Water (Erik Bünger, 2008 · 3′)
⟢ An Asian Ghost Story (Bo Wang, 2023 · 37′)
⟢ Work Starts Now (Kush Badhwar, 2025 · 9′)
⟢ The Fly of the Peppered Moth (Valentin Degnieau, 2025 · 16′)
⟢ conversation with an angel (Niklas Feinik, 2026 · 3′)

First image: An Asian Ghost Story.

Joining us for the screening: Niklas Feinik in conversation with Paula after the films.

Doors 19:30 · CinemaO, Via Luigi Cirenei 6A, Milan

30/06/2026

𝐆𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 ∙ 𝐂𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐚 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐦𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬

Wednesday, 1 July 2026
Curated by Paula Veidenbauma
Joining us for the screening: Ieva Raudsepa

Ieva Raudsepa (b. 1992) is an artist from Riga, Latvia, working with video, photography, and text. Throughout her practice, she has explored the contested histories, images, and identities of Eastern Europe, with a particular interest in the relationship between centre and periphery and how this is translated into narratives of places and people.

Raudsepa holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Latvia and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She is also a graduate of the Meisterschüler*innen programme at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig and the Mountain School of Arts in Los Angeles. Recent exhibitions include Fever Dream at Meduza (2025, Vilnius), Tokyo Highway Scene at Riga Contemporary Art Space (2025), Superior Comfort (2024, Berlin), Letters at oxfordberlin (2022, Berlin), Closed for Crisis / Take Care of Each Other at LOW (2021, Rīga), and Future Ghosts at Human Resources (2019, Los Angeles).

Following the screening, there will be an opportunity to discuss her film Fever Dream (2025) in person and hear insights into the making of the project. The conversation, focusing on ghosts and ghosting in Raudsepa’s practice, will be moderated by Paula Veidenbauma.
The film posters were designed by Stefans Pavlovskis.

First image: Fever Dream at the Cēsis Art Festival 2025, photograph by Kristīne Madjare.
The conversation with Ieva is supported by the Municipality of Milan and the Embassy of Latvia in Italy.

CinemaO, via Luigi Cirenei 6A, Milano (MM Gorla)
Free admission with a CinemaO membership card.

27/06/2026

𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅
Cinema of Spectral Cosmologies
Curated by Paula Veidenbauma
1–2 July 2026, 20.00, CinemaO – Via Luigi Cirenei 6A, Milan

Ghosts are everywhere. Conventionally attached to abandoned houses and inherited properties, they also appear in less expected places: on dating apps, in underground garages, at construction sites, along riverbanks, in dreams and nightmares. And ghosts tend to return. Their reappearance in a particular site, often described as haunting, disrupts linear understandings of time and troubles the boundaries between past and present, opening a space for spectral negotiation: was it truly there, or merely a hallucination before the eyes?

𝑮𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅 engages with expanded notions of spectrality in moving image practice. Rather than focusing on the ghost as a visible figure within the frame, the programme considers it as something that holds together that does not fully cohere, and that can also ghost, disappear without notice.
Full programme and reservation link in bio. OV Screenings with English subtitles.

𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟏 | 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞
Nicolas Provost - Moving Stories - 7 min - 2011
Tekla Aslanishvili - A State in a State - 47 min - 2022
Ieva Raudsepa - Fever Dream - 23 min - 2025
After the screening, a conversation with Ieva Raudsepa

𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟐 | 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬
Erik Bünger - God Moves on The Water - 3 min - 2008
Bo Wang - An Asian Ghost Story - 37 min - 2023
Kush Badhwar - Work Starts Now - 9 min - 2025
Valentin Degnieau - The fly of the peppered moth - 16 min - 2025
Niklas Feinik - conversation with an angel - 3 min - 2026
After the screening, a conversation with Niklas Feinik.

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Free entry with annual membership fee (€5). CinemaO is a non-profit space.

The programme is supported by the Municipality of Milan. The conversation with Ieva Raudsepa is supported by the Embassy of Latvia un Italy. The programme was made possible with the help of Argos Centre for Audiovisual Arts in Brussels.

The poster image is a still from Nicolas Provost’s film “Moving Stories”, courtesy of Argos.

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About the curator: Paula Veidenbauma (b. 1997, Riga) is a Vienna-based artist, curator and educator. Her practice, in its different articulations—producing, organising, plotting, making, writing and dancing—engages with project(ed) dramaturgies, the limits of flexibility, speculation, conspiracies and expanded notions of renovation.

25/06/2026

𝐄𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐍𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐍: 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒
Chapter II

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Narratives are not neutral structures, but devices that organize, select, and render reality intelligible. They shape what is visible or invisible, often framing the world through an anthropocentric perspective that places the human at the center.

Yet earthly reality is fundamentally interspecies: a dense coexistence of human and non-human beings.

Through hybrid forms between documentary, essay, and speculative fiction, these works engage with what Le Guin calls a “strange reality,” where boundaries between human and non-human become porous and entangled.

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The second chapter of the programme brings together the works of Riar Rizaldi (“Fanfictie: Volcanology”) and Andrés Jurado (“Bienvenidos Conquistadores Interplanetarios y del Espacio Sideral”), both of which insinuate themselves into scientific and colonial discourses in order to reveal their constructed nature. Their practices generate new languages, opening up spaces for alternative forms of imagination. The dialogue between the two films unfolds through formal elements — colour, composition, and sound — which contribute to disorienting the gaze and redirecting it toward the “rest”: that which has been marginalised or silenced gradually acquires presence.

PROGRAM:
⟢ 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒇𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒆: 𝑽𝒐𝒍𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 (Riar Rizaldi, 2025, 16’)
⟢ 𝑩𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒅𝒐𝒔 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒔 𝒚 𝒅𝒆𝒍 𝑬𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒐 𝑺𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍 (Andrés Jurado, 2024, 95’)

Friday 26 June 2026, h. 20:30
CinemaO — Via Luigi Cirenei 6A, Milano (MM Gorla)
Free admission with CinemaO membership card (5€/year)

About the curator: Camilla Gilardoni is a film curator, independent researcher, and cultural events producer based in Brussels. She coordinates film events and contributes to cinema programming at BOZAR. She is a member of the transfeminist collective Elles* Font des Films and part of the programming team of the Pink Screens Film Festival.

22/06/2026

Oggi a Fondazione CinemaO entriamo nel cuore della scena riot grrrl e queercore con i due documentari punk di Lucy Thane, tra live, backstage e politica femminista in presa diretta.

FILMS as ZINES | Lucy Thane / Cinenova @ CinemaO

Le sue opere, conservate e distribuite dalla cooperativa femminista Cinenova, nascono e circolano fuori dai circuiti mainstream, grazie a una rete di curatrici, attiviste e filmmaker che da anni difende un archivio di sguardi e corpi dissidenti.

Per il terzo ed ultimo appuntamento di FILMS AS ZINES vogliamo condividere un pezzetto di questa storia collettiva: cinema come documento, autoproduzione e rumore – da vedere insieme, in sala.

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