Juana Robles is the creator of béal, the winning project for this ninth BAICC – International Artistic Residencies for Cinematographic Creation 2025/26. The assessment committee made up of a representative from each of the three entities responsible for the...
THE SIXTEENTH (S8) PUTS UP THE POSTER ANNOUNCING “SEATS OU...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWnwBfzswqI&ab_channel=s8cinema Aftermovie of sixteenth edición do (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico that finished June 8 The management of the (S8) Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico is taking stock of this year’s 16th...
CARLOS CASTILLO. THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF ART
We spoke with Carlos Castillo, a multidisciplinary and multifaceted artist, about his work and the fascinating Venezuelan avant-garde Super 8 movement of the 1970s and 1980s. You come from other artistic disciplines such as drawing or sculpture, so how did you get...
THE INTERNATIONAL WANDERING PHOTOCHEMICAL. CINEMA SPECTRAL: ...
This year’s (S8) will end on Saturday with the Wandering Projection, brought to us by the self-run laboratories Laia-Torre (Porto) and Mire (Nantes). A 16 mm screening will tour the streets of A Coruña thanks to this project, which blends art, technology, solidarity,...
SONGS OF THE EARTH: NOTHING CAN DIE_REMIX
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,...
SONYA MWAMBU. MOURNING FOR THE IDENTITY THAT WASN’T
We spoke with Sonya Mwambu about the powerful roots that have shaped their performance, Maono Mzimi. What is the origin of Maono Mzimi? The performance includes some texts as well as footage from different sources. Could you tell us about this, all the pieces that...
VALENTINA ALVARADO MATOS. TEXT, TEXTURE, INTUITION
Venezuelan artist Valentina Alvarado Matos tells us about the process behind voy raspando la hoja y la voz, part of our Desbordamientos (Overflows) Section, and the importance of collage, the fragmentary nature and permeability of meanings between image and sound in...
TEKNO FANTASY: INSTRUCTIONS FOR BUILDING WORLDS
Tekno Fantasy, a collective made up of Laura Ibáñez López, Camila Reyes and Iker González, will contribute their expanded film to the Sinais section this Thursday at the Luis Seoane Foundation. We talked with them about fantasy, crossing disciplines, and “little...
THE GIFT-CULTURE OF THE UNDERGROUND: JEANNETTE MUÑOZ’...
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...