by Nela Fraga | Apr 3, 2019 | Interviews
Friedl vom Gröller (Photo: Maria Meseguer) “Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, a German philosopher from the 18th Century, said: ‘the most entertaining surface on earth is the human face’. It’s the same case for me. Everywhere I am I look at human faces...
by Nela Fraga | Jun 9, 2018 | Interviews
How did you start to deal with personal things in your films? I had a teacher, Rick Hancox, who discussed how in order to make a film about the world, your first need to look at yourself. I had a lot of family photographs and I decided that I would go into these...
by Nela Fraga | Jun 7, 2018 | Articles
By Manohla Dargis There are a multiplicity of adjectives that fit Ernie Gehr’s experimental film and digital work: abstract, beautiful, mysterious, invigorating, utopian. The work can also be oblique; this is not a bad thing! His 14-minute film History (1970), to take...
by Nela Fraga | Jun 6, 2018 | News
In this edition of (S8) the Film Farm travels to Coruña with Philip Hoffman, who will give a four-day workshop under the philosophy of what he calls the Process Cinema. With 16mm film as guide medium, and processing with ecological materials such as wildflowers and...
by Nela Fraga | Jun 5, 2018 | Interviews
“Most of the experimental work demands something from the audience: patience, interpretation, mixed feelings. People aren’t used to that and get frustrated and impatient. But, if you are ready to search your expectations, you would experience much deeper levels of...
