The Interference Cinema Manifesto

A Tribute to the Ilya Iosiphovich Kabakovy and the Art of Immortality

1. Cinema as an Echo of Time

Interference cinema does not document time—it disrupts it. Each frame is a collision of past, present, and future, where memory is not a recollection but a reverberation. The filmmaker does not record reality but reconfigures its echoes.

2. The Screen as a Wave Field

Film is not a linear sequence; it is a waveform. Emotions, thoughts, and histories exist as frequencies, overlapping and distorting like interference patterns. The spectator does not watch the film—they tune into it.

3. Actors as Ghosts of Themselves

In Interference cinema, characters are not singular identities but fragments of their own existence. They slip between versions of themselves, embodying the tension between being and non-being, presence and erasure. They are alive, yet already immortal.

4. The Collapse of Space

Interference cinema disregards fixed locations. A cosmic spaceship can be a stage, and a theater can be the cosmos. Each setting exists in multiple realities simultaneously, like quantum superpositions that only collapse when observed.

5. Silence and Distortion as Narrative Tools

Sound in Interference cinema is not illustrative but disruptive. Silence is never empty—it amplifies the unseen. Distorted voices, static interference, and echoes of lost conversations rewrite the narrative in real time.

6. The Hologram as a Cinematic Being

Film does not end when the credits roll. It exists in layers—screen, memory, reflection. The audience becomes part of the interference, projecting their own emotions onto the film, which then replays in the subconscious like a persistent signal.

7. Immortality through Image

Interference cinema seeks not to preserve life but to defy its limits. It understands that death is merely a disruption in perception, a break in the waveform. To capture an image is not to freeze a moment—it is to let it ripple through eternity.

Interference 9points of timeline presentation

photo Andrew Woolner 

( pitching time line presentation March 2025 )