By Ivonne Sheen I asked some of the directors from the Sinais Latin America Section to share a song related to their films and their feelings and thoughts. Then, guided by randomness and intuition, I composed a long poem resulting from the technique of cut-up,...
By Stephen Broomer (Text from the book Jeannette Muñoz El paisaje como un mar. Edited by Francisco Algarín Navarro. Lumière 2017) I offer this in response to only a small selection of Jeannette Muñoz’s Envíos, films that the artist has made as gifts. Each Envío is...
“What I find so fascinating about these photographs, these little snapshots, is not what they are, but what they are not,” says the calm yet defiant voice of Betzy Bromberg at the start of her latest film, A Darkness Swallowed. The two sepia-toned photos she is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...