in occasion of the Grand Opening of Borderline Moving Images, starting off with the exhibition “Seduction” in the newly constructed Soho Shangdu buildings, two performances will be featured as a prelude to the events unfolding in the next few days.

Soho Shangdu is located in the very heart of Beijing city; this is a suggestive intersection where the low-rise centre opens up to a vast expanding horizon, while on the other the contrasting character of verticality and vibrancy of the city life and hectic pace provides a perfect scenario for a metaphorical communication with its intrinsic nature.

In order to highlight our commitment to this visionary and creative communication with the city texture and its subjective interpretation we are presenting two powerful performative events for the opening night.

While bringing forward the vocational multidisciplinarity of artistic experimentation, we 'r e presenting two live audio/visual sets that powerfully make use of moving images to construct evocative narratives; while dialoguing with the environment they solicit different ways of interacting with all of its different factors: the landscape, its sounds, the emotional bliss of the life within.

1) Just Like the Movies
Projection of “Just Like the Movies” accompanied by live Piano Performance, 30 min. Credits: Director, Writer, Editor, Producer: Michal Kosakowski
Music and Piano Performance: Paolo Marzocchi
Title Design: Rafal Kosakowski



　

Synopsis:
“It's just like the movies!” was usually the first reaction of those watching the events of 9/11 in New York unfolding on their TV screens, no doubt recalling the endless number of catastrophes that Hollywood has proposed over the years. Now confronted with the reality of one such scenario – of unprecedented destructive and symbolic resonance - a feeling of déjà vu arises while looking at these images.
This paradoxical déjà vu presents a great challenge to our realism. If documentary images are graphic testimony of real events, then footage of 9/11 is evidence of the realization of the existing fiction.
Just Like the Movies is an attempt to re-construct the events of 9/11 by highlighting the parallels between the fictive worlds and the images of the real events.
In more than 600 Hollywood movies (produced before 2001) Michal Kosakowski looks for images of what he just saw, and finds, in 52 films, the entire sequence of events that happened on that day in September 2001.
Intimately involved in the project, Paolo Marzocchi is a composer and musician. His perception of the 9/11 events led him a century into the past, right to the early days of cinema.
For him it is the style of the silent picture era that sets the tone for Just Like The Movies. A century of image construction by the media collapses in the face of the events of September 11, 2001, in the early 21st century, the beginning of the third millennium AD. The defencelessness we experienced when we stared at the live broadcast on the screens was similar to that felt by the first moviegoers who, with the Lumière brothers ' film, found themselves exposed to a train that seemed to rush directly at them at full speed. The underlying themes of provenance and use of images run parallel within the reality of production and the work itself.
It has become apparent that the borders between political reality and media-generated Fiction are wide open – one way or another.  

The Music by composer Paolo Marzocchi :
“I started to think of the music as a glue for the heterogeneous material of the movie. You should not notice that in one scene it's raining and it isn't in the next, or that it's winter in the early seventies, and few seconds later people are playing chess in Central Park , dressed in a much later style. In certain cases I'd like to preserve in the music the “ Hollywood feeling” the film images of the genre. So I decided to write “silent movie” music for piano solo. The naked sound of the piano contrasts starkly with the stunning impact of the images, binding them together, there is the “ghost” of Hollywood music atmospheres, as well a clear tribute to the ragtime-based music of the first silent movies. In certain passages, electro-acoustic sounds are added to the acoustic piano notes, and the performer has to interact with them. The electro-acoustic parts are taken from a piece “B1, Study for a Night-Crossing Journey” that I had written earlier, and fit the atmospheres of the film perfectly. We can also say that our collective journey across the Night started with September 11th.” 
Short Bio
Michael Kosakowski
Born in 1975 in Poland , he studied film production at the Austrian Film Academy .
Michal Kosakowski has since worked as an independent artist in Austrian TV and Fabrica, Benetton's communication-media research centre and collaborated with many artists such as Oliviero Toscani and Marco Müller. He has directed, co-directed, written and edited numerous short and experimental films which have been shown in competition at many film festivals worldwide.
Paolo Marzocchi Composer, pianist.
Born in Italy , in 1971, he graduated in piano, composition and electronic music.
He has won numerous international awards and his work has been performed in Europe, and other countries, including Japan , Brazil , Paraguay , Armenia and USA . He currently teaches sound design at the Universities of Macerata and Urbino. He lives in Italy .

2) 8GG – Interactive Studio
www.8GG.com
8GG is a multimedia duo in Beijing composed of Jiang Haiqing and Fu Yu. Their works include music, video, installation, drama, and web art.
Their work have been shown in MAAP01 EXCESS-new media festival in Brisbane Australia ， CYNETart exhibition in Dresden Germany ， FILE 2002 electronic language international festival in Brazil ， CAPALBIO CINEMA INTERNATIONAL SORT FILM FESTIVAL in Italy , 2004 Shanghai Biennial Show and other occasions.  

In 2002, 8GG developed their own real-time performing audio-visual system, which integrates sounds and images featuring a more musical nature and a more physical control. In the same year, the group successfully conducted many audio-visual shows in a large number of cities around the world.
In 2003, 8GG cooperated with drama "ceremony" and took their responsibility in multi-media aspect, which includes conception, designing, shooting, producing, interactive programming and stage control. "ceremony" was performed in KUNSTEN FESTIVAL DES ARTS Brussels , Belgium , AUTUMN FESTIVAL in Centre Pompidou Paris ， ICA London among others.
8GG''s album includes "Net Soundscape", "Pillow Cycle", "Fish cooking" and others. covering different genres such as electronic, electroacoustic, microsound and noise, etc.
They continuously experiment with work production technologies to change the meaning of "artwork."
8GG transforms visual material, layered with political meaning and collective memory, into an almost dialogue-less dance track. Naturally what they want to highlight is this inversion of the relation between sound and image, but it is inside this new society, one accustomed to visual culture, that this inversion is inevitably endowed with more significance. Their website is like a fictional game machine similarly filled with amusing installations: by means of different modes of visual factors modification, audio effects can be changed. It is this subtle relation between visible and invisible sight that is at the base of their interactive works.