To accompany the dazzling selection in this year’s Sinais Latinoamérica, below we present two lucid, rebellious texts by one of the filmmakers involved in it, the Brazilian Lincoln Pericles. FOR A BRICKLAYER’S CINEMA by Lincoln Péricles For the most part, Brazilian...
This year, we are dedicating a space to the work of the Kinothek Asta Nielsen film archive in Frankfurt, an institution that has been dedicated to preserving and disseminating the film work of women and gay people since 1999. Although the artworks they are bringing...
To deepen our understanding of the work of Bruno Varela, who is visiting us from Mexico, we are presenting some fragments below taken from the essay Disappearances of bodies, erasures of the image: archive, violence and memory in the work of Bruno Varela on the Iguala...
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...