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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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, 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...
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...
“What I find so fascinating about these photographs, these little snapshots, is not what they are, but what they are not,” says the calm yet defiant voice of Betzy Bromberg at the start of her latest film, A Darkness Swallowed. The two sepia-toned photos she is...
Sixty years of Super 8, and another festival dedicating a special place to films made in a format with its own ethics and aesthetics of the kind exuded by the work of the Argentine Daniela Cugliandolo, to whom we are dedicating a programme. We are publishing an...