attaqueer le visible

Initially founded as a monthly screening event at La Mutinerie in Paris, "attaque[e]r le visible" is a platform for experimental film and video, which seeks to spread the fascination for it. attaque(e)r le visible is an experimental film and video platform for projections, meetings, talks, book presentations and lectures. Older experimental films and video art works as well as the most recent deve

lopments of the genre find a place here. attaque(e)r le visible is dedicated to works which perturb the consistency and illusionism of the classical film by consciously referring to the technical embeddedness of the film, its incoherence and materiality. The works on display are marked by refusing stereotypical images and linear narration, their critical position towards the co-world, normative visibilities, forms and bodies. In short, it is about films and videos which do not trust the self-evident, and for which the word ’normally‘ does not exist. attaque(e)r le visible sees itself as a platform for experimental film and video that not only creates projections but also contextualises and historicises them. For this purpose, on the one hand, we publish brochures with materials from the time when the moving images were made. On the other hand, attaque(e)r le visible counteracts the canon with the means of oral history by recording video interviews with the film makers and artists and making them freely available on the site www.attaq***rlevisible.com. After stops in Paris, Kassel and Cologne, attaque(e)r le visible now continues in Berlin in collaboration with the Raum für drastische Maßnahmen.
2021 the series consists of two parts, corporal interventions and a Videoaktion (formerly Videofest). The monthly film programme corporal interventions looks back at the experimental film and the video art history of the 70s and 80s. The Videoaktion, which takes place on three weekends, focuses current tendencies in experimental film and video.