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INEFF LAUNCH
As part of the 2026 Experimental Fiction Film Festival (INEFF) at Cultplex on 20 June, we presented an early demonstration of Nested Cinema by expanding Pavel Prokopic’s Mirrors and Tears beyond its original screen form. First published through Screenworks in 2020, the film grew out of experimental work with performance, cinematography and chance, creating what Prokopic describes as a form of meaning that is felt before it is fully understood.
The Cultplex demonstration gave us an opportunity to revisit that work through the emerging language of Nested Cinema – exploring what happens when the atmosphere and affect of an existing film begin to extend into the physical space around its audience. (View and read about Mirrors and Tears in Screenworks)
Just as importantly, the demonstration became a space for conversation. INEFF brings together filmmakers, artists, researchers and audiences interested in pushing at the boundaries of fiction filmmaking, making it an ideal setting in which to ask not only “does this work?” but “where could cinema go next?” Following the experience, we interviewed both filmmakers and audience members about Nested Cinema, how they imagined films might be created and experienced in the future, and what opportunities – and challenges – they saw in moving storytelling beyond the single screen.
Those conversations are helping shape the next stage of the project: developing Nested Cinema not simply as a new way to exhibit films, but as a creative platform through which filmmakers can rethink, expand and spatialise the worlds they have already created.
