Live Cinema Festival

The Live Cinema Festival opens a new chapter in its history as it arrives at MAM – Media Art Museum in Rome, taking over an extraordinary immersive space equipped with 27 projectors and transforming it into an unprecedented audiovisual environment for the festival.

For three days, audiences are invited to move beyond the boundaries of traditional viewing and immerse themselves in an experience where images, sounds, space, and perception merge into a single sensory flow. No longer simply a screen to watch, but an environment to explore, inhabit, and listen to.

The 13th edition explores new frontiers in live audiovisual performance, presenting for the first time a programme of immersive Expanded Live AV Performances: works conceived to engage with the entire space, envelop audiences, and redefine the relationship between artist, technology, and spectator. This exploration takes the language of live cinema beyond conventional formats, opening up new expressive and perceptual possibilities within a context of experimentation that is unique on the international scene.

Nine expanded audiovisual performances, featuring international artists and emerging talents from the Live Cinema Made in Italy section, create a journey through visions, soundscapes, algorithms, transforming images, and non-linear narratives. Each performance is a creative process unfolding in the present: images and sounds are generated, manipulated, and brought into dialogue in real time, giving rise to unrepeatable works