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What is live cinema? According to the Transmediale festival1 press release for its live cinema program in 2005 the term “Live Cinema has hitherto been used primarily to describe the live musical accompaniment of silent movies. But that was yesterday. Live Cinema today stands for the simultaneous creation of sound and image in real-time by sonic and visual artists who collaborate on equal terms and with elaborate concepts. The traditional parameters of narrative cinema are expanded by a much broader conception of cinematographic space, the focus of which is no longer the photographic construction of reality as seen by the camera’s eye, or linear forms of narration. The term “Cinema” is now to be understood as embracing all forms of configuring moving images, beginning with the animation of painted or synthetic images.”

From “The Practice of Live Cinema” by Mia Makela