Álvaro Feldman is the author of TORONTONTERO, the winning project of this sixth edition of BAICC - International Artistic Residencies for Film Creation 2022. The evaluation committee, composed of each of the three organizations responsible for the call, AC/E - Acción...
With in-person attendance completely recovered, more than 8,000 visitors came to the Mostra or festival to enjoy the exclusive opportunity to see 55 world premieres and 47 for Spain.Some of the most relevant highlights, to name a few, were shown by the massive...
In addition to the performance Contra Jour, which closes this year’s festival, we will get the chance to see a handful of films by Leah Singer and Lee Ranaldo from recent decades, preceded by a conversation with the artists. Singer and Ranaldo's association began in...
Ieva Balode, one of the founders of the self-managed Latvian Baltic Analog Lab, brings us a carte blanche with some of the most exciting work created by the collective. Founded in 2016, the laboratory’s activity ranges from production to education and organising...
The recently named Paraíso, the meeting between Fine Arts students that we have been organising through the Mostra since 2021 aims to become a place to open minds, discover and create through cinema. It is a space that would not be possible without the enthusiasm,...
Among the many gems brought to us by Arsenal's carte blanche through Angelika Ramlow, there are two films by the Australian filmmaker duo Corinne and Arthur Cantrill (whose work has also been recovered and restored by Arsenal). They are Notes on the Passage of Time...
Sombras extravagantes, created and directed by Ariadna Solera and Álex Pena Morado, is one of the freshest and funniest podcasts on experimental and auteur cinema one can find: with depth and enthusiasm, they have been dedicating entire programmes to different events...
I understand that you come from the sphere of photography. How did you start working with cinema? Deneb Martos: At the laboratory where I work at La Casa Encendida I’ve always done a lot of research into the medium, with the darkroom and the photosensitive medium...
Your films are very much linked to optical and photochemical processes. How did this way of working evolve? Dianna: Many of the Super 8 films became almost films about the camera’s possibilities. We would do a lot of things frame-by-frame, the small amount of double...