Ernie Gehr. No blockbusters here, just mind expanders

Ernie Gehr. No blockbusters here, just mind expanders

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...
Philip Hoffman Workshop

Philip Hoffman Workshop

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...
Pablo Mazzolo. Mythical territories

Pablo Mazzolo. Mythical territories

THE FILM AND THE EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA When I started at university we would work mostly on video but thinking about working on film. Video was not a semi-professional medium, it was used in television. Perhaps when Dogma began in the 90s it began to be used in another...