PARIS, FRANCE.- The Centre Pompidou and the Musée National d'Art Moderne present another theme-based presentation of their collections. Mouvement des Images - Art et Cinéma is presenting a re-interpretation of 20th century art from the viewpoint of film-making. As it holds the most important collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe, and a unique collection of artists' films, the Centre Pompidou is one of only international institutions able to mount such an exhibition from its own collection.

At the dawn of the digital revolution, this new presentation, based on the fundamental components of film-making - scrolling, projection, narrative and editing - is offering a completely new cinematographic experience encompassing the visual arts.

Philippe-Alain Michaud, exhibition curator said: “Today, with numerous artists using film, and the film industry reconsidering its methods of diffusion using multimedia, the experience of cinema, as we have known it over the past century, has changed. This model of entertainment, borrowed from theatre, whereby a film is projected from beginning to end in a room for an immobile spectator, is no longer the only option for a cinematographic experience. It has become necessary to redefine cinema and the way in which it has been accepted in terms of experience over the last century. "

Rather than entertainment, cinema today is considered a way of conceiving and thinking images, no longer from a viewpoint of fixity and immobility, but from one of movement and reproducibility. In addition to avant-garde and experimental films, artists' videos and installations, the exhibition brings together more than 200 works borrowed from the reputedly static arts - painting, sculpture, photography, but also architecture and design. It proposes an original insight into modern and contemporary history of art featuring works by Henri Matisse, Bruce Nauman, Barnett Newman, Man Ray, Frank Stella, Jeff Wall and Andy Warhol.Confronting each other Hanne Darboven's work Pour Jean Paul Sartre reponds to Picasso’s eight studies of “ Le peintre et son modéle “. The audio and visual collages in Oracle by Rauschenberg are reminiscent of Surrealist editing. Further off, Men in the Cities by Robert Longo, placed next to Shoot by Chris Burden, both play on the codes and genres of Hollywood cinema.