Cinéma forde is a bimonthly screening series dedicated to films at the intersection of art and cinema, as well as practices situated around and between these fields. Hosted by Spoutnik, the program explores how visual forms circulate between movie theater, white cube, independent scenes, and the economies of moving images.

Carolina Misztela
I Fancy the Good Life – A Fashion Film: The Making Of, 2025
15’47''
A rehearsal, a proposal, a try-out — sketching some first ideas and thoughts for an upcoming film project that has yet to be born, before it evolves into the next big thing. Nostalgic yet strange images define this moment in time, while offering a glimpse into my uneven research process and its possible directions. A mother, the daughter, shoes, clothes, a dusty portal opening and closing six times a week for nearly 30 years. The story is seeking to be told from scratch.

Bettina
The New York Phenomenology, Urban Energy Strategies, 1976-77
Super 8 mm film transferred to HD video
58’42''
Bettina (1927–2021) was a conceptual artist who lived most of her life at the Chelsea Hotel in New York. This place became her primary source of inspiration. “You see, I was back in New York, trying to find this invisible secret. And there is a mystery here. It keeps us here. […] I found it in the architecture. I started photographing distortions in the architecture—not straight reflections […] Then I discovered that with movement, along the wall of the building, the reflections changed. Every time you move, it’s changing. And so, I was shooting a four-dimensional sequence of one single constant, which was the building, but it was changing as I moved.”