Highlights from The Reykavík Visual Music - Punto y Raya Festival

It is a true pleasure to invite you to yet another edition of the greatest event devoted to abstract art in motion. On this occasion, RCVM and MAD have joined forces to organise the Reykavík Visual Music - Punto y Raya Festival, which will take place from January 30th to February 2nd 2014 at HARPA, the Reykjavík Concert Hall (Iceland), and promises to make history :)



Not only will we explore the intrinsic relationship between music and abstract imagery, but also carry out educational activities in the Academy Programme, a Visual Music exhibition curated and hosted by Listasafn Reykjavíkur (the Reykjavík Art Museum), and experience the wonders of the Icelandic nature through excursions devised specially for our audience.

PROGRAMME



LIVE CINEMA SESSIONS



We're opening the festival with deluxe concerts commissioned specially by RCVM (Reykjavík Center for Visual Music) to Bret Battey + Hugi Guðmundsson & Sigurður Guðjónsson + Anna Þorvaldsdóttir. The acclaimed Ryoichi Kurokawa and Ryoji Ikeda will conquer our senses with their overwhelming guest sessions.

GUEST POLISH and AUSTRIAN FILM PANORAMAS



Curated and presented by Ania Głowińska and Thomas Renoldner, these panoramas will introduce us into the history and evolution of experimental abstract cinema in their respective countries.









INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM & LIVE CINEMA COMPETITIONS



This year, we received 371 films from 46 countries to the PyR call for entries. The 95 selected works have been structured in seven 50' modules, and will be screened in FULL HD. And 102 live set proposals were submitted to the first Reykjavík Visual Music call. The finalist artists will perform LIVE at HARPA: D-Fuse+Labmeta (UK), Usaginingen (Japan·Germany), Max Hattler + VesperOn (Germany·UK + Spain) & RKO (France)!









PARALLEL ACTIVITIES

All info on the festival, the programme and how to get your tickets or season passes, at

www.puntoyrayafestival.com





We hope to meet you all in this fascinating place in our planet, joined by the universal language of pure expression, and under a spontaneous Northern Lights show.