Today we’ll be presenting, within the framework of our on-site activities, our Sinais en curto selection: a handful of innovative, stimulating films by Galician artists. To celebrate (S8)’s 12th edition, we have proposed a sort of “Secret Friend” game to our guest...
On the occasion of this 12th edition, we’re devoting a major section of the festival to the life and works of José Val del Omar, who we have chosen to be our guiding light this year. Val del Omar was a filmmaker, a poet, an inventor, and a mystic who, since he started...
The guest authors of our Foco Sinais show us around their library We all place our books in a secret order, even though we are sometimes reluctant to admit it. We recently moved out of the house in which we had been living for eight years –it wasn’t a big house. It’s...
In 2014, the Spanish artist, researcher, and professor Esperanza Collado visited us with her performance We Only Guarantee the Dinosaurs –a very peculiar project on the possibilities of combining mobile projectors, playing with lights and shadows, off sounds, objects,...
THE DORMANT BODY. TWO TEXTS ON MARINELLA PIRELLI To celebrate the special program Il corpo latente, a selection of Italian experimental pieces curated by Giulia Mazzone and Giuseppe Spina from Nomadica, we share with you two texts by Erik Bullot that look into the...
David Sherman and Rebecca Barten On the occasion of our encounter Micro is Big, which will bring together the representatives of some of our favorite theaters, we share with you one of the first texts to ever have used the term “microcinema”, written by the founders...
A Return is a film that makes the concept of return its raison d’être. His creation is, in fact, given by the alternation of footage of two different places that the director has impressed on film and that he overlaid according to criteria that could be defined as...
“Have you noticed that all the discourses that can be held on a film, or on the cinema (and large quantities of them have been held), start off from the a priori non-signifying existence of an apparatus producing images, which can then be used indifferently for this...
Down below, you’ll find a series of thoughts by artist and researcher Esperanza Collado –a selection of excerpts from a longer text on Una película en color and Un baile con Fred Abstrait, two films by Bruno Delgado Ramo, whose work will be featured this year in the...