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,...
Nomadica. Il corpo latente
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...
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
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...
JAMES EDMONDS. A HOME OF GEOMETRY AND POETRY
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...
THE MECHANICS OF LIGHTS. THE FILMMAKER-CAMERA OPERATOR
“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...
THE ROOM INSIDE/THE ROOM OUTSIDE (THE CAMERA). NOTES ON BRUN...
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...
JUAN SEBASTIÁN BOLLAÍN. CINEMA AND THE URBAN FACT
This year, we wish to bring to the front the utopian film work by Spanish filmmaker and architect Juan Sebastián Bollaín, to whom we’re devoting two on-site film screenings and an online program. His most emblematic work, the tetralogy Soñar con Sevilla, was created...
PABLO MARÍN BY STEPHEN BROOMER
We bring together two old friends of the festival, very dear to (S8): Pablo Marín, to whom we are devoting a complete episode of our program Camera Obscura, and Canadian filmmaker and researcher Stephen Broomer. Broomer wrote about Marín in his article, published in...
DAVID DOMINGO. A LETTER TO HIS FANS.
Below these lines you can access, in facsimile format, a letter that David Domingo (aka Davidson) addressed to his fans on the occasion of the premiere, in 2009, of his film Película sudorosa.