The 17th Mostra de Cinema Periférico bade farewell with a day full of emotions and unique screenings by John Porter and Jeanne Liotta, with new eclipses, surprise shows and a playful ending. The awe-inspiring attendance of young filmmakers, especially women, in the...
John Porter is an essential filmmaker in the history of experimental cinema in Super 8. It is no coincidence that he was one of the interviewees in the book series A Critical Cinema by Scott MacDonald, whose lineup of names is now a kind of star system of avant-garde...
To accompany the dazzling selection in this year’s Sinais Latinoamérica, below we present two lucid, rebellious texts by one of the filmmakers involved in it, the Brazilian Lincoln Pericles. FOR A BRICKLAYER’S CINEMA by Lincoln Péricles For the most part, Brazilian...
This year, we are dedicating a space to the work of the Kinothek Asta Nielsen film archive in Frankfurt, an institution that has been dedicated to preserving and disseminating the film work of women and gay people since 1999. Although the artworks they are bringing...
The first days of the 17th Mostra de Cinema Periférico have confirmed the vitality of avant-garde cinema, creating great expectations for events over the festival’s main days in a packed programme. World premiere Descubro el rayo, tus ojos tiemblan, de...
Morada aberta (Open dwelling) is a work that combines formats (digital video, analogue film, archive images, live interventions and a play of screens) to reassemble before our eyes the fragmented memory of the ancestral knowledge of the healers, devalued and silenced...
The Colombian artist Paola Guzmán Figueroa, who lives in Helsinki, tells us about her performance Trazos generacionales (Generational traits), in which she weaves an intimate story mingled with migratory lines and family ties between women. In your performance, the...
Is it true that your earliest film and video works were mostly made in response to compositions and music? You collaborated with composers Phil Niblock and Antoine Beuger, among others? Indeed, at one point I started working a lot with Q-O2*, an arts laboratory for...
This Thursday Pablo Agma presents his film performance Niño monaguillo y sus pecados (Altar boy and his sins) as part of the Desbordamientos evening dedicated to Sinais. Here, the Galician artist (who has visited us before with Hombre de palo (Stick man)) opens up a...