Nov 28, 2024
20th Forum Expanded: Changes and Continuities Leading Up to the Anniversary Edition

The 2025 edition of Forum Expanded will mark its 20th anniversary.

The curatorial team, consisting of section head Ulrich Ziemons and co-curators Karina Griffith and Shai Heredia, is currently preparing the programme for the upcoming festival. Ala Younis, who has co-lead Forum Expanded together with Ulrich Ziemons since 2021, has resigned from her position after many years of meaningful contribution to pursue other projects in art, curating, research and publishing. She remains closely connected to Forum Expanded.

“Being part of Forum Expanded has been a valuable experience for me. I am grateful to its team, filmmakers, artists and audience members whose dedication has fostered a space for creativity and growth. I wish Forum Expanded all the best and look forward to seeing its future development,” comments Ala Younis.

Now entering its third decade, Forum Expanded continues to be an ever-changing and evolving space for the presentation and discussion of expanded, experimental and artists’ cinematic practice. Since its inception in 2006, the programme organised by Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art, has helped foster discourse around this practice as a vital field of engagement with the (geo-)political, social, and aesthetic developments that shape the world.

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November 28, 2024