movements | moving images

miart 2026 sees the debut of the special project Movements, dedicated to the moving image and developed in collaboration with the St. Moritz Art Film Festival. Curated by Stefano Rabolli Pansera, the programme presents 20 films by artists represented by 15 galleries, exploring for the first time at miart the poetic and experimental language of video and artist film.

The theme of Movements: If Music investigates the relationship between music and cinema as a space of possibility, where film becomes not narrative but vibration, rhythm and resonance. The works presented show how sound can transform perception, space and the body, generating new forms of experience.

Organised into five movements, the programme unfolds across: Matter and landscape, where images and sounds emerge as fields of resonance; Voice and translation, in which dissonance becomes a collective and political space; Rhythmic space, transformed into architectures of loops and repetition; Choreography, where the body becomes score, memory and living archive; Rhythm of labour, revealing the transformative power of everyday gestures.