CINEVAN is a mobile cinema and film production platform developed by Patrik Thomas. Conceived as a hybrid of exhibition space, workshop, archive, and traveling cinema, the project uses a converted van equipped with projection, sound, and screening infrastructure to bring film practice directly into public space.
Commissioned by Lothringer 13 Halle, CINEVAN deliberately operates beyond institutional walls. Screenings, discussions, and workshops unfold in streets, squares, and transitional urban sites, making artistic processes visible and accessible to diverse audiences. Cinema is understood not as a closed event, but as an open, situated practice of encounter and negotiation.
In collaboration with Museum Brandhorst, CINEVAN activates locations in Munich whose histories are often overlooked or politically charged, from former military grounds to inner-city transit zones and peripheral neighborhoods. By situating film programs in these contexts, the project connects images and stories to the social and historical layers of the city.
Inspired by traditions of traveling cinema, CINEVANCLUB functions as a roaming archive and temporary film lab. It creates spaces for collective viewing, learning, and production, linking city and countryside, center and periphery, past and present. Cinema emerges here as a social practice of perception, remembrance, and shared responsibility.
Following its initial chapters in Munich, CINEVAN will continue in cooperation with the partner institutions of Antifascism: Now. and expand into public spaces across (South-)Eastern Europe.