Erarta MOTION PICTURES. International Festival of Shorts about Paintings
(Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
Films about paintings. Films as paintings.
Erarta Museum (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) is presenting its annual project — the international festival of shorts about paintings, Erarta MOTION PICTURES.
The festival focuses on short films from all over the world dedicated to paintings, painters, art institutions, general and specific topics related to those subjects. Special emphasis is given to works of cinema that use painting as the central method in creating form and content.
The connection between painting and film is particularly close and cognate. Painting is justly considered the forefather of cinema. With this in mind, film is also capable of making pictures move, opening new horizons, ways of interaction and mutual enrichment of those neighbouring territories.
Cinema grew out of painting, inheriting its experience, traditions and skills. Now it has matured and is ready to pay the debt to its progenitor.
Discovering a new visual dominant in cinema, Erarta MOTION PICTURES festival is ready to prove that cinema is indeed the painting of the contemporary day, enriched both technologically and philosophically. Painting that was set in motion and given a new life.
1. We invite the authors of the films from the Official Selection category to attend our festival.
2. Considering the project’s format and the connection between cinematography and painting, films-competitors will be judged by two jury committees – Art Jury and Cinema Jury. Each jury will define its Grand-Prix.
Grand-Prix — the original copies of the sculptures decorating the façade of Erarta Museum: Era (the prize from the Cinema Jury) and Art (the prize from the Art jury).
The author of the sculptures is a renowned Russian sculptor Dmitry Zhukov.