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...
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...
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...
Among the many gems brought to us by Arsenal's carte blanche through Angelika Ramlow, there are two films by the Australian filmmaker duo Corinne and Arthur Cantrill (whose work has also been recovered and restored by Arsenal). They are Notes on the Passage of Time...
Sombras extravagantes, created and directed by Ariadna Solera and Álex Pena Morado, is one of the freshest and funniest podcasts on experimental and auteur cinema one can find: with depth and enthusiasm, they have been dedicating entire programmes to different events...
With the clear vision of cinema that inspires us, and the importance of appreciating and giving space to the past and to international creators, through (S8) we also realise the urgent need to bring together the people who are creating here and now, and to open up new...
In September 2021, Bruno Delgado Ramo travelled to Toronto to work at the LIFT (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto) facilities on his project Frame Manoeuvres to Port, having been selected to enjoy the International Artistic Residency for Cinematographic...
The Argentine filmmaker, researcher, translator and editor Pablo Marín writes about one of the films by the Austrian Philipp Fleischmann that we will be seeing in this year’s (S8). Two lines split a cinema screen down the middle. They cut it horizontally and then...
One of the films that guides us into outer space and into the mental space we claim for ourselves in this year’s programme of the same name is Jordan Belson's Allures. Below, we present the text that Gene Youngblood dedicates to it in his legendary book Expanded...