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Location ArtScience Cinema, Level 4 |
Free Admission
Art and cinema share a complex and intimate relationship, connected by a love of creativity, an urgent need for self-expression and an interest in how new technologies can inform storytelling.
The ART SG FILM 2025 explores this symbiosis through the theme of ‘Films by Artists, Films on Artists’, a curated programme of boundary-pushing films where artists feature prominently both as directors behind the camera and as subjects on the big screen.
Films by Artists
In this segment, we showcase historical and contemporary artists as filmmakers. Drawing on their practices in sculpture, painting or digital forms, these artists often use the moving image as a medium for experimentation, visual poetry or conceptual narratives that challenge cinematic conventions.
Films on Artists
This segment features films that examine the artist as a subject. In intimate portraits and grand historical surveys, the films unravel the complexities of the creative process and reveal the human stories behind iconic works of art. In doing so, they aid our understanding of art’s evolving role in society and culture.
Curated by Bangkok Kunsthalle and Khao Yai Founding Director, and Artistic Director of St. Moritz Film Festival, Stefano Rabolli Pansera.
Total Running Time: 643 minutes 42 seconds.
For more information on the individual works, please visit ART SG Films.
Image caption: Film stills from Arte Povera, Arte Povera, Appunti per la Storia, Arte Povera, 2023, courtesy Good Day Films Sales Agent; Country Worldwide; Rights: All Rights.
| Andreas Gursky ANDREAS GURSKY - a film by Ralph Goertz, 2024 Film – 50 min Courtesy © IKS-Medienarchiv; all works © Andreas Gursky VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024 |
Chi Yin Sim The Mountain That Hid, 2022 2-channel video shown as single-channel, colour, sound 5 min 56 sec Courtesy Sim Yin Sim |
| Monica de Miranda Path to the Stars, 2022 Video, Colour, Sound 34 min 41 sec Courtesy of the artist and Sabrina Amrani |
Tanatchai Bandasak Drop, 2022 Single-channel video, sound 8 min 31 sec Courtesy BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY |
| Matteo Zamagni Horror Vacui, 2018 Single-channel video, sound 3 min 27 sec Courtesy the artist and Gazelli Art House, London/Baku |
NOT VITAL NOT ME: A JOURNEY WITH NOT VITAL, 2020 Documentary 78 min Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac Rated M18 |
| Wolfgang Laib Without Time, Without Place, Without Body, 2019–2021 Film – 42 min Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac |
18 Jan 2025
Screening from 10.30 am
Running time - 243 min 53 sec
The section “Voices and Whispers” focuses on the intimate, transformative, and deeply personal journeys of artists as they navigate the intersections of life, society and history. This program presents films that delve into the rich narratives, unspoken subtleties, and resonant echoes of some of the most influential figures in contemporary and modern art. Through their stories and practices, we are invited into moments of vulnerability, reflection, and profound artistic revelation. Voices and Whispers amplifies the nuanced stories and creative voices of artists whose works transcend time and genre.
From Rauschenberg’s cultural breakthrough to Twombly’s mythical poetics, and from Gates’s spiritual soundscapes to his reflections on nature, this section offers a deeply resonant exploration of how art speaks, whispers, and endures. These films invite us to listen closely—not just to the stories of the artists, but to the subtle and transformative ways their works continue to shape our understanding of art, history, and humanity.
| Theaster Gates Ave Maria: An Exercise in reproduction, 2018 Single-channel video 39 min 56 sec © Theaster Gates. Courtesy White Cube |
Cy Twombly CY DEAR A Journey Through the Life and Works of Cy Twombly, 2018 Film - 92 min Courtesy Good Days Films. Director Andrea Bettinetti. Produced by Michele Bongiorno for Good Day Films |
| Theaster Gates Oh, The Wind, 2021 Single-channel film, HD 16:9 11 min 57 sec © Theaster Gates. Courtesy White Cube |
Robert Rauschenberg TAKING VENICE, 2023 Documentary 98 min Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac Rated M18 |
19 Jan 2025
Screening from 3pm
Running time - 174 min 14 sec
The section “Ruins and Prophecies” delves into the interplay between historical legacy and visionary imagination, exploring how artists face and cope with the radical transformation of society (consumerism, society of spectacle, technological advancement, etc.) and draw from the past to reshape the future.
Through themes of decay, transformation, and foresight, this program examines the ways art reflects and redefines cultural epochs, offering a prophetic lens on both individual and collective experience. Ruins and Prophecies bridges the tangible and intangible, exploring how art transforms the remnants of the past into visions of possibility. Arte Povera’s embrace of raw materials and Nam June Paik’s avant-garde media experiments highlight the ways art interrogates the collapse of old systems while imagining new frameworks for understanding the world. Finally the works by Cai Dongdong and by Korakrit Arunanondchai interweaves the historic narrative with narratives of possible futures.
| Korakrit Arunanondchai Painting with History Archive - Painting with history in a room filled with people with funny names 1, 2013 Single-channel video, colour, sound 12 min 3 sec Courtesy BANGKOK CITYCITY GALLERY Rated NC16 |
Nam June Paik Global Groove, 1973 Video, colour, sound 28 min 30 sec © Nam June Paik Estate, courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York and Gagosian. Rated NC16 |
Dongdong Cai History of Life, 2023 Single-channel video, colour, silent 42 min 41 sec Courtesy of artist |
Nam June Paik Global Groove, 1973 Video, colour, sound 28 min 30 sec © Nam June Paik Estate, courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York and Gagosian. Rated NC16 |
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