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Expanded Cinema | Cine expandido
2026-03-07

It’s not beyond the screen, it’s not behind the screen. It’s all around us.
Materialised.

The meaning of expanded cinema and the meaning of cine expandido seem to be the same. Yet, the meanings have different connotations. Expandido frequently refers to a specific technical process, such as "poliestireno expandido" (EPS/Styrofoam) or "metal expandido" (expanded metal mesh). In these contexts, it implies a material that has been physically altered to become porous or textured, rather than just simply "larger."¹

We become one with an unfolding world around us, which is the delicate frabrication of the artist and performer. A fragile and temporal materialisation of the projection.

A threshold,
a portal of time,
vibrations,
soundscapes,
pain,
visceral and corporeal,

The projection, the audience and my body become one, material in space and time. The cine: the moving images fill the space as a form of light. Enchanting light. My body is the shadow, a trace of my body being present in the images of the projection. The art of cine expandido is to enter the cosmovision of the projection without rejection. A total surrender.

Open filmMaybe cine expandido is a film that is literally open, like an open body.

But an open body is very sensitive.

When I perform, I am a performance artist.
I become the vessel.
Like a Shaman.
But the Shaman has to be strong to hold the space.

The audience need to be guided, they are more fragile then in the cinema.

Maybe the cine expandido is a form of shamanism.
A way of collectively bodily and psychologically traveling through space and time.

Expanded Consciousness
Hypothesis:
Bodies, souls, movement and transformation create the entry point to a space of temporal existence. it is a space that imagines a world of symbols, emotions and meaning. Maybe they are a projection of an ancient humanity that has been or shall be real.

A supplication against the dehumanising effects of the ‘technic’ world,
clinging onto the world of ‘magic’ to escape the horrors of the present world at the end of its existence.

The ripples of the cine-space-psyche go deep and shallow__The spirit of the times will tell the moon the direction of the ripples. We have to prepare for those waves of ripples that seem small from afar, but by the time they hit our floating bodies, we will feel the force of the push. And the pull into the deep-dark-depths will be of high magnitude.

We become one with an unfolding world around us, which is the delicate frabrication of the artist and performer. A fragile and temporal materialisation of the projection.

Cinematic disposition: dark room, projection, immobilised spectator resembles hypnosis. Cinema produces a state similar to dreaming or trance where the viewer’s critical consciousness is lowered.