Live Cinema

Nowadays – with digital technologies – many artists are able to perform both music and video in real time. Those audiovisual performances can be seen in many different formats: live cinema, djaying with vjaying; music concerts with live visuals; live coding. Live Cinema can be described as an intersection between the techniques of vjaying: mixing videoclips in real time – with the objective of cinema: telling stories trough moving pictures. Although, the act of mixing and improvising video in real time, creates difficulties in the construction of a perceptive narrative. This article has two main objectives. First is to draw a state of the art related to this phenomenon known as Live Cinema. The second aims to analyze the concept, the morphology and the work’s methodology of Moda Vestra collective. In which – for their live cinema performances – created a formula that can solve the challenging of creating cinematic narratives in real time.