VIDEO/TAKE

M HKA and De Cinema present VIDEO/TAKE, a programme line dedicated to moving images in all their expanded forms: video works, video clips, video art, installations, digital experiments, and other screen-based practices. From the early square television image to the flat museum screen and today’s vertical phone formats, VIDEO/TAKE brings these shifting visual languages back to the big screen, with full cinematic sound.

We approach video not as a secondary format, but as a central artistic field in its own right, situated within visual culture as an extension of the visual arts. It operates across contemporary art, online culture, music, and cinema, reflecting how artists and makers use moving images across platforms, technologies, and contexts.

The programme highlights how these works transform when displaced into the cinema space, where they can be experienced differently: expanded, amplified, and shared collectively in the movie theatre.

In parallel with the exhibition Nicola L.: When the Earth Turned the Other Way at M HKA, VIDEO/TAKE presents IBIZA BODIES: SUMMER FILMS OF NICOLA L., bringing together three films made by Nicola L. during and around her time on Ibiza in the 1960s and 1970s—a period of artistic experimentation, exchange, and collective living.