Stéphan Crasneanscki: What We Leave Behind – From the Archives of Jean-Luc Godard at Pula Film Festival

71st Pula Film Festival is a new venue to host the extended exhibition by Stéphan Crasneanscki unveiling Gordard’s boxes, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka.The exhibition is curated by Branka Benčić, Tanja Vrvilo and organized in collaboration od MMSU the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka and Film Mutations: Festival of Invisible Cinema (Film-counter-film).

The exhibition brings together a series of photographs that frame books, collages, film and video archival material from Godard’s personal archives, and the presentation of the photo-book What We Leave Behind and the sound composition and film by the same name.

The title of the book and sound composition “What We Leave Behind – From the Archives of Jean-Luc Godard”, follows the traces of rhizomatic spaces between the artistic-curatorial research of Stéphane Crasneanscki and his experimental Soundwalk Collective after he was introduced to the vast repository of Godard’s film century, located in Cantal in France, by Godard’s sound engineer François Musy in 2014. The endless series of cardboard boxes were classified and packed by Godard himself, without names and numbers. Crasneanscki unfolded the boxes for a photographically remedialised cinema-eye of Godardian pedagogy that theorizes and terrorized with the vertigo of spatial arranging, spaces in between and superimpositions, transparencies and shadowy reflections of text, layered blending and multiple exposures, and cutting and tearing of the images found.

Stéphan Crasneanscki is a French multidisciplinary artist working in the field of music and film, books, and analogue and digital sound recordings. His collaborations include Patti Smith, Abel Ferrara, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Luc Nancy, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nan Goldin, Willem Dafoe, Wim Wenders, Jean Nouvel, Isabelle Adjani, Catherine Deneuve, and Isabelle Huppert. He has exhibited at international institutions such as Opéra de Lyon, KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Barbican Centre, Berghain, Centre Georges Pompidou, MUDAM, MuCEM, Museo Madre, New Museum, Palazzo Reale Milan, documenta14 in Athens and Kassel, Manifesta 12 Palermo, and elsewhere.

Curators: Branka Benčić, Tanja Vrvilo
Realized in cooperation with the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka and Film Mutations: Festival of Invisible Film – EVIDENCE (Film-protufilm)
Partners: Pula Film Festival, Soundwalk Collective, Studio Naegeli
Organisers: Apoteka – Prostor za suvremenu umjetnost, Udruga Metamedij