In the framework of the exhibition Mario García Torres: Illusion Brought Me Here, Cinéma Parenthèse and Wiels presents a screening of 16mm films by David Lamelas (b.1946, Argentina), a pioneering conceptual artist working also with sculpture, installations, and video.

This programme showcases three of his essential films from 1970 that, through different modes of abstraction, explore spatial and temporal dimensions of urban topographies and paradoxical performative gestures within the verbal recitation of literary texts.

Cinema Parenthèse #11 presents Paolo Gioli: The Pierced Screen with an introduction by Enrico Camporesi

In collaboration with Ambasciata d’Italia – Istituto Italiano di Cultura Brussels and WIELS - Centre for Contemporary Art.

Brussels based artist Els van Riel  (b 1965) is a member of the analogue film-lab Labo Bxl and Cinema Parenthèse. Her films, videos and installations examine the impact of detailed changes in moment, movement, matter, light and perception. Her works relate to a tradition of minimal and structural filmmaking (Paul Sharits, Ernie Gehr), she processes the basic elements of film - time and light, silence and sound - and develops a form for expanded aesthetic saturation based on phenomenological observation within a sensitive and personal horizon that bypasses symbolism and narrativity.