Emiliano Reyes is the creator of The Toronto Symphony Orchestra Conducting Tchaikovsky (1945), the winning project of this tenth edition of BAICC – International Artistic Residencies for Film Creation 2026/27. The selection committee—composed of one representative...
A LOOK BACK AT THE 17TH (S8) IN IMAGES: A FESTIVAL PACKED WI...
We are sharing a photo gallery and a video summarising a truly memorable edition, which was characterised by new discoveries and a sense of community centred around avant-garde cinema https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJtl_ADV13E&feature=youtu.be XVII (S8)...
THE (S8) FESTIVAL ENDS WITH PACKED HALLS AND THE RECOGNITION...
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
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...
SINAIS LATINOAMÉRICA
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...
KINOTHEK ASTA NIELSEN. DIE ASTA
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...
EMOTION, LIGHT AND THE BODY IN THE FIRST DAYS OF (S8) WITH P...
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...
TÂNIA DINIS. THE HEALER OF THE MOVING IMAGE
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...
PAOLA GUZMÁN FIGUEROA. VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE THREADS
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...









