Sinais, our recent film programme from Spain and Portugal, seen from the other shore by Ivonne Sheen, the Sinais Latin America programmer. The experience of capturing and projecting images as an event, a situation, a memory, a detonator, navigation in the underwater...
LUCKY ACCIDENTS: PHIL HOFFMAN AND THE FILM FARM
Phil Hoffman tells us the story of his project, the Film Farm in Ontario, Canada, that turns 30 years old this year. THE INSPIRATION By the late 80’s I had finished a series of autobiographical films, and luckily had the opportunity to travel. On these trips I did...
SINAIS AMÉRICA LATINA
FRAGMENT OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES. A LETTER TO THIRD WORLD WOMEN WRITERS [1] Ivonne Sheen Mogollón, Sinais Latinoamérica curator, shares with us one of the texts by Gloria Anzaldúa that guided and inspired her selection. 1980 May, 26th Dear mujeres de color, I feel...
MYTHOPOESIS FROM TENOCHTITLÁN: ANNALISA D. QUAGLIATA BLANCO...
By Byron Davies Has Mexican experimental film come full-circle, found its “secret formula”? In a foundational 1998 exhibition catalog essay for their traveling program Cine Mexperimental, Rita González and Jesse Lerner describe Rubén Gámez’s 1965 baroque anti-gringo...
KENNETH ANGER: HOW I MADE LUCIFER RISING
Interview by Chris Michael The director of the 1966 occult classic talks about how an anti-British massacre paid for his film, and the debt it owes to Jimmy Page and a bunch of jailed killers This was the first really big film...
NARCISA HIRSCH: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST AS A HUMAN BEING
The processes that go into the work of making a festival and shaping its spirit are sometimes hidden from view, because what finally appears on the surface is what the public gets to see on the days of the event itself. In the case of our relationship with Narcisa...
AMY HALPERN FOREVER
A few days ago we received news that was hard to believe: that Amy Halpern had passed away. It was hard to believe because only a couple of months ago in Coruña she had been demonstrating a magnetic, inexhaustible energy. She presented two sessions of her films: one...
LEAH SINGER & LEE RANALDO. STEADY EXPLOSIONS
In addition to the performance Contra Jour, which closes this year’s festival, we will get the chance to see a handful of films by Leah Singer and Lee Ranaldo from recent decades, preceded by a conversation with the artists. Singer and Ranaldo's association began in...
BALTIC ANALOG LAB. PHOTOCHEMICAL EXISTENTIALISM
Ieva Balode, one of the founders of the self-managed Latvian Baltic Analog Lab, brings us a carte blanche with some of the most exciting work created by the collective. Founded in 2016, the laboratory’s activity ranges from production to education and organising...