A panel of professionals made up of Almudena Escobar, Pablo Marín, Tamara García and Miguel Armas, will analyse four projects selected from over sixty candidates.
Almudena Escobar, Pablo Marín, Tamara García and Miguel Armas, INPUT titors.
Fostering the cinema of the future by making (S8) a driving force behind cutting-edge filmmaking. That is the goal of the INPUT space for film project consultancy organised by eSe8_LAB with support from Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and the Fundación Luis Seoane, to be held during the 17th Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico. Here, a team of mentors analyses the selected projects in a personalised way, from the writing and development stage to the planning for their distribution. These are tailored tutoring sessions in which each tutor advises a single artist and project, helping them to find new avenues or to boost existing ones.
INPUT TUTORS
This year, the selection of professionals making up the INPUT panel of tutors is again of the highest level. Almudena Escobar is a researcher, curator, archivist and lecturer at the Toronto Metropolitan University’s School of Image Arts. She has also curated programmes at the CCCB in Barcelona, the MoMA in New York, and the National Film Archive of Mexico. Pablo Marín is a filmmaker, critic, and lecturer at the Elías Querejeta Zine Eskola, as well as creating the essay Una luz revelada. El cine experimental argentino (2022).
Tamara García directed the Aguilar de Campoo International Short Film Festival. Today, she combines artistic curating at venues such as the BBAA Bilbao with the executive production of film projects. Miguel Armas is a researcher, critic, programmer, and distributor. Creator of the essay En el umbral de lo invisible (2026), he works with Light Cone, a Parisian association engaged in preserving, disseminating and distributing experimental cinema.
Aureola Infinita, Ana Císcar and Rubén Marín
FOUR PROJECTS SELECTED
INPUT is being run for the tenth time in 2026. It has received more than sixty proposals, four of which have been selected, focusing on visual, sound, technical and narrative experimentation. In some cases, these are films in the process of being made, such as Aureola Infinito by Ana Císcar and Rubén Marín, articulated using scientific images of eclipses, and fauna or flora from different museums, which are being filmed in 16 mm. Corneta China is also underway, by La Vulcanizadora, the studio created by María Rojas Arias and Andrés Jurado where they carry out exploratory work related to cinema, art and archives. This time, they are planning a documentary about Chinese migration in the Colombian Caribbean, with sound experimentation as the common thread.
The project of Luz Derramada by Gonzalo Manchón revolves around the border between light and the body, investigating the relationship between the film medium and the action of filming with a crank in 16 mm, manifesting the condensation of time through the pictorial dimension of cinema. Finally, Carlos Baixauli, the Val del Omar archive coordinator, will be here with Assaig d’aproximacio Ara or Mai, a film essay project reflecting upon Valencian identity.
Luz Derramada, Gonzalo Manchón | Corneta China, La Vulcanizadora.
Assaig d’aproximacio a Ara o Mai, Carlos Baixauli.
INPUT, as well as Paraíso and the BAICC artist residency, are organised by eSe8_LAB, the festival’s laboratory dedicated to training, support, research and the development of film projects. Through these programmes, the (S8) has established itself as an incubator for experimental cinema, becoming the venue of choice for artists to premiere their works, as is the case this year with Pompa y circunstancia (2026) by Daniela Delgado Viteri, which was part of INPUT.
Now established as the most daring, original project development programme in Spanish cinema, INPUT is backed by Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and the Fundación Luis Seoane. Since 2025 it now includes the ELIXIR scholarships in memory of Amy Halpern, which give direct support of €700 that the selected projects can apply for. This aid was first given last year at the initiative of the artist’s family, who was in the spotlight at (S8) just a few months before her passing.
The 17th Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periféricos to be held in A Coruña between 2nd and 7th June, 2026. It is organised by the eSe8 Cultural Association and can count on sponsorship from the Concellería de Cultura e Turismo do Concello da Coruña and support from the
Axencia Galega das Industrias Culturais da Xunta de Galicia (Agadic), the Deputación da Coruña, the Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Audiovisuales (ICAA), Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and the Fundación Luis Seoane.
