Collaborating with key institutions, artists, directors and designers worldwide, our approach to concept design, exhibition curation and film making creates a synergy between these media to meet the ever growing and diverse audience demands, whilst fostering an environment for creativity and innovation to flourish.

Founded with rebellious spirit and ambitious objectives, the company strives to create content that informs and inspires, challenges pre-conceptions and stimulate appreciation for art in all its forms of expression, delivered to the highest professional standards.

“Hamlet Revenant is the emerging cinematic form, a visual and dramatic evocation of preconscious and unconscious impulses that lie latent beneath words”

Ken McMullen’s adaptation of Hamlet is a radical cinematic re-interpretation of Shakespeare’s iconic play focused on creating a highly compelling visual score.

Over the past few years Ken McMullen has brought together a renowned group of actors, artists, international thinkers and high-level cinema technicians to carry out ‘concrete’, recorded research in a filmed process exploring the chasm between language, image and meaning.

This exploration aims to be resolved in a time-based moving-image work. As its focus this work began to explore, in close readings and dissections, the text of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and other closely related texts.

Release date December 2020

” In turn or in parallel, cinema became Futurist, Cubist, Dadaist, Constructivist, abstract and surrealist… Freedom was these “artists-filmmakers” priority. “

During the roaring twenties a number of artists rebelled against moral, cultural and artistic conventions, challenging the traditional hierarchy between the arts : amongst others, Marcel Duchamp, László Moholy-Nagy, Luis Buñuel, Hans Richter, Fernand Léger, Francis Picabia, Len Lye, Man Ray, Walter Ruttmann, Dziga Vertov. They refused to reduce cinema to a documentary technique used to capture reality and to a narrative device modelled on Hollywood’s stereotypical stories. They thought of cinema as an art form, endlessly experimenting with the camera. Doing so, they turned cinema into a lab for artistic experimentations and echoed the other artistic avant-garde of the beginning of the 20^th century.

Release date: Date to be announced soon
Price: TBC

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Opening Date: TBC

I THOUGHT I KNEW YOU is a film about trying to forgive and trying not to forget. Ben appears to have everything: a great job, money and the social life that goes with it, a beautiful house and, most of all, a handsome, talented and loving boyfriend. But enter his aggressive and bigoted father Frank, and unresolved and painful issues come flooding back to pollute the comfortable life Ben has created for himself. This is a darkly comic yet deeply moving story of fraught family relations and the suffering caused by having never been accepted by a parent.

“A piece of “artist’s jewellery,” like a painting or a sculpture, is a work of art. Springing from the same creative approach, it possesses the same force, poetry and ability to provoke, sometimes even the same humor. It is only their ultimate purpose that distinguishes one from the other.”

Dates to be announced soon

While working as a goldsmith in Hatton Garden, Shaun Leane began a long-standing collaboration with the late Lee Alexander McQueen. United by a shared passion for craftsmanship, together they created breathtaking, provocative catwalk jewels with iconic status.Exploring the role of the jewel, they challenged femininity and fashion, and the perceptions of form, preciousness and meaning.

Please join us to a must-see group show of photorapher Ann Ray and jewellery designer Shaun Leane while celebrating his upcoming book.

London and New York Dates to be announced soon, 2020

The power of mind, the power of thought and the power of emotion trigger a chemical reaction in the body. This is a point where the unconscious takes over and the body reacts of its own volition with a physical symptom.

Pschosomatica explores manifestations of psychological trauma, and its overwhelming prevalence on human health -and consequently behavior- in contemporary society. It is a stage-essay preoccupied with the power of the mind, and its interplay with the body as referred to today in medical terminology as psychosomatic phenomena. The result is a humanistic attempt aiming at redefining the blurring lines between the concepts of physical illness and that of mental wellbeing.

To articulate the ‘unexplained physiological happenings’ featured in the interviews, Jocelyn Pook has created a series of musical movements interspersing observations of Dr Stéphanie Courtade with the ‘patients’ own stories – the music and lyricism of narrative, in constant dialogue with the moving image element generate an evocative immersive experience of what it’s like to live with psychological distress, breaking through to the corporeal self.

Currently in production

“Music can only express human sentiments. Often, it is true, these sentiments arise out of the political tendencies of an epoch. For this reason Beethoven’s music is different from Mozart’s, since by Beethoven’s time a new idea of democracy, not known in Mozart’s era, had arisen. But this is all merely historical. No music of any value can be written on a purely political basis, as some of the moderns in Russia and Germany would have us believe. Nor would I ever compose a single bar for esthetic reasons in order to try to create a new style. I write to express human emotions, solely. If music is really human, it doesn’t matter to me how it is conveyed.” Kurt Weill

Simon Lee is writing a new orchestration of Weill’s work, with an emphasis on his European output.

The nature of the material, and the freedom that the passing of the copyright into public domain allows, means that these performances could potentially take many forms – from simple chamber concerts for the ensemble, to larger, more symphonic concerts that still feature the core ensemble and any such incarnations would of course only benefit from the addition of film/projections, lighting, sound and ‘environment’ elements.

There also seems, to us, in a zeitgeist way, that there is an extraordinary resonance in this material with the current global political and migration crises. The repertoire will include Weill’s ‘greatest hits’ reimagined – Mack the Knife, Surabaya Johnny, September Song, Saga of Jenny, Speak Low – as well as the less familiar, including some of his French songs.

Pre-production for recording

Opening Date: TBC

I THOUGHT I KNEW YOU is a film about trying to forgive and trying not to forget. Ben appears to have everything: a great job, money and the social life that goes with it, a beautiful house and, most of all, a handsome, talented and loving boyfriend. But enter his aggressive and bigoted father Frank, and unresolved and painful issues come flooding back to pollute the comfortable life Ben has created for himself. This is a darkly comic yet deeply moving story of fraught family relations and the suffering caused by having never been accepted by a parent.

Opening Date: December 2020

Ken McMullen’s adaptation of Hamlet is a radical cinematic re-interpretation of Shakespeare’s iconic play focused on creating a highly compelling visual score.

Over the past few years Ken McMullen has brought together a renowned group of actors, artists, international thinkers and high-level cinema technicians to carry out ‘concrete’, recorded research in a filmed process exploring the chasm between language, image and meaning.

This exploration aims to be resolved in a time-based moving-image work. As its focus this work began to explore, in close readings and dissections, the text of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and other closely related texts.

Hamlet Revenant is the emerging cinematic form, a visual and dramatic evocation of preconscious and unconscious impulses that lie latent beneath words.

Art Cinema and Marquee TV are proud to announce the digital release of War Work: Eight Songs with Film, Michael Nyman’s creation commemorating the centenary of the First World War. A total artwork, it combines various visual, poetic and musical archives.

Eight songs form a song cycle inspired by the Belgian Gaston de Ruyter’s Chansons Vieilles sur d’Autres Airs (old songs to other tunes). Poems written by poets who all died during the war, except David Bomberg, are set to music based on emblematic tunes by Beethoven, Rossini, Schubert, Chopin and others.

Without a voice-over, War Work reveals the potency of images from German and French First World War film archives which have rarely been seen. The film element, edited by Max Pugh, unearths the bodies of war – mutilated and disfigured soldiers – which have too often been forgotten. War Work does not show the slaughter but the effects of war and its memory: the psychological trauma and the physical wounds caused by a humanitarian disaster after which nothing would be the same again.

“It’s a film without any dialogue, commentary or interviews, and it is basically raw visual material and raw sound material. It’s a thrilling way of making a film and a thrilling way of using images with intelligence. 

“This kind of stream of consciousness approach of being a quasi-documentary maker I think has been the most thrilling film project I’ve ever been involved with, and now I have a real appetite for taking this approach and making other films with available documentation.” Michael Nyman 2018

Digital release: Marquee TV, December 15th 2018

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Myriam Blundell Phillips is the founder and the managing director of Art Cinema. An international impresario and independent multi-media producer, her experience encompasses inter-disciplinary curatorial consultation and talent management as well as content conceptualization and production. Between 2005 and 2016, Blundell Phillips ran her own talent management agency providing both commercial and creative guidance to an eclectic pool of artists, including internationally acclaimed British composer Michael Nyman (for whom she acted as global manager and producer); Belgian artist, writer and theatre director Jan Fabre, British filmmaker Martha Fiennes, Canadian artist and filmmaker Jody Shapiro and French artist Ann Ray. Since 2011, Ms Blundell Phillips produced and released two art house documentaries entitled: NYman with a Movie Camera and “War Work”. Her previous non-executive achievements include leading the Friends of Signy and Olaf Willums Foundation in Aix-en-Provence, sitting as the founding chair of the international collectors forum as well as joining the board of trustees the Contemporary Art Society in London.myriam@artcinema.art

Dominique Païni is the former head of the Cinémathèque Française and director of multidisciplinary projects and Film at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. He brings an extensive and wealth of knowledge of curating the intersection between visual arts and film. His expérience as a seasoned essay writer and publisher is a huge contribution to Art Cinema’s focus on producing the highest standards possibly achievable in the fields of writings and Publishing. Dominique Païni’s latest exhibition Godard- Picasso : Collages is currently on display at the Festival des rencontres Photogrpahique d’Arles until September 23rd 2018.
dominique@artcinema.art

Topi Lehtipuu In addition to a career as a tenor of international renown, Topi has developed a sharp expertise in conceiving and producing high-caliber productions involving multi-disicplinary approach to culture promotion.  He was Director of the Helsinki Festival from 2015 to 2018 following on  artistic directorship of Turku Music Festival as well as of Joroinen Music Days, a chamber music festival in eastern Finland.

topi@artcinema.art

Alix Agret is an art historian. She holds a MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art and a PhD in Fine Arts from the Royal College of Art. Visual culture, representations of the body and eroticism were at the core of the MA in History and the MA in Film Studies she earned in France (Paris-Sorbonne University and Paris West University Nanterre la Défense). She has worked as an assistant curator on several exhibitions in France. She regularly writes articles for art magazines.
alix@artcinema.art

Elif Karlidag has a background in composition and music business with a classical music education in piano, composition and conducting. She has worked as a performer and she also has experience working with artists, musicians and establishments, planning, project managing and curating events. As Arts Cinema’s creative producer she is responsible to work within PR and marketing where she creates, develops and produces content and strategy across all media.
elif@artcinema.art

Julia Burbach is a stage director and creative producer, having worked in a broad range of artistic fields including fine art, theatre, dance, film and most prominently opera in the U.K. and internationally. She has a long standing working relationship with the Royal Opera House, where she was a Staff Director from 2005 until 2021. At the 2019 International Opera Awards she was nominated as Best Newcomer. Recent and upcoming productions include, Semele ( Shanghai International Arts Festival), Die Walküre (Opéra National de Bordeaux), Edmea ( Wexford Opera Festival) and Onegin ( Opera Holland Park).

julia@artcinema.art