As a medium of creative expression, film has never been so prevalent outside cinema buildings as now: on TV, computer, tablet and smartphone screen; on building façades as a space for mapping or the dome of a planetarium; in shops, offices and as an element of museum exhibitions. Evolving, it has given rise to a number of new audio-visual forms that broaden the unstable boundaries of film work: interactive documentaries, audio-visual essays or hallucinatory worlds of virtual reality.

By launching the i-Film project, we are creating in Łódź a place that will be inextricably linked with what contemporary cinema is and what it is becoming; a research space for various formats of “non-film”: network, gallery and applied projects created today and in the past, whose status and value is not always based on the criteria of artistic significance or commercial attractiveness. “i-Film” will be a platform for sharing knowledge and experience between researchers, creators and institutions dealing with phenomena related to film, in particular interactive film, cinematic VR, audio-visual essay and film as an exhibition tool in gallery and museum spaces.

What do we do?

• interactive films, including web-docs;
• audio-visual essays;
• cinematic VR;
• film as an exhibition tool

What are our aims?

• networking activities, both national and international;
• research/academic activities (Research Lab, panel discussions, conferences);
• educational activities (“Video essay creation/VR for schools”, workshops)
• archival activities (multimedia pods, VR café);
• popularising activities (promotional meetings, festivals, Internet platform);
• business activity

 
What do we want to offer?

For academics:

• discussions, meetings, exchange of ideas and experiences;
• the possibility to redirect undergraduate and postgraduate students to projects created by i-Film in order to develop their theoretical and practical skills;
• research co-operation

For practitioners:

• promotion of their work during author’s meetings and via everyday access in multimedia pods;
• the possibility to share experience during workshops, to obtain collaborators and create an audience;
• production support: access to computers, editing software and databases

For businesses:

• promotion of products, services and ideas during sector meetings and everyday activities
• pitching sessions (as a target: via an Internet platform)
• contact databases

For amateurs and enthusiasts:

• the most interesting works in the genre;
• panels, workshops, residential programmes
• networking
• touring educational and promotional programmes that make it possible to familiarise oneself with various forms of digital culture

Contact:

Paweł Sołodki
p.solodki@ec1lodz.pl