Here we reproduce a fragment of Jonas Mekas’s Film Diaries on the fundamental Marie Menken, in the occasion of the special tribute we dedicate to Mekas: a selection of films by the artists he supported through his writing and programming. January 4, 1962 I shall begin...
If there’s something that has characterized the (S8) since its first edition, it is the presence of expanded cinema and film performances. Back in the days of our first edition in the Old Prison of A Coruña, Bruce McClure visited us: one of the most fabulous (and...
Malcolm Le Grice is coming this year to the festival, and to realize how important occasion this is, we only need to read these words written by Jonas Mekas in The Village Voice. Two film programs, a master class and a unique performance and multi-projection evening,...
Though it may seem that a job as film preservation and restoration comes from a certain nostalgia for the past, it has in fact its glance fixed in the future. The work of preserving films has to do with making valuable things endure for the times to come. This year we...
Today we want to share with you a text by James Edmonds part of the book Jeannette Muñoz. El paisaje como un mar, published by Asociación Lumière (the book will be available for purchasing during the festival), courtesy of its editor, Francisco Algarín Navarro. A...
By Manohla Dargis There are a multiplicity of adjectives that fit Ernie Gehr’s experimental film and digital work: abstract, beautiful, mysterious, invigorating, utopian. The work can also be oblique; this is not a bad thing! His 14-minute film History (1970), to take...
"I create works because they give me pleasure and satisfaction as well as a sense of inner balance. A work comes into being because of personal necessity. Creating a work for me is like breathing in and breathing out." Ernie Gehr Ernie Gehr. Programe 2. CGAI – 02/06 –...
"It's a unique project, based on promoting access, investigation, experience and adaptation to the changing film scenario" Clara Sánchez-Dehesa Galán. Elías Querejeta Zine Skola "Dive deep to find those strange fish who stare without seeing. Look for chance, explore...
If there is a work in the field of cinema and the arts that looks to the future, this is undoubtedly the one that appeals to the transmission of knowledge and the support of emerging talent. Offering alternatives to the processes and industrial approaches (those that...