https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvjl-oM-F10&ab_channel=s8cinema On its 12th edition, the festival resorted, once again, to a dual format, offering original online contents devoted to disseminating innovative films, while making an effort to keep alive the spirit...
Today we’ll be presenting, within the framework of our on-site activities, our Sinais en curto selection: a handful of innovative, stimulating films by Galician artists. To celebrate (S8)’s 12th edition, we have proposed a sort of “Secret Friend” game to our guest...
On the occasion of this 12th edition, we’re devoting a major section of the festival to the life and works of José Val del Omar, who we have chosen to be our guiding light this year. Val del Omar was a filmmaker, a poet, an inventor, and a mystic who, since he started...
The guest authors of our Foco Sinais show us around their library We all place our books in a secret order, even though we are sometimes reluctant to admit it. We recently moved out of the house in which we had been living for eight years –it wasn’t a big house. It’s...
In 2014, the Spanish artist, researcher, and professor Esperanza Collado visited us with her performance We Only Guarantee the Dinosaurs –a very peculiar project on the possibilities of combining mobile projectors, playing with lights and shadows, off sounds, objects,...
For this 12th edition of (S8), Dietmar Schwärzler –an outstanding representative of the Austrian cooperative and distribution company of experimental film sixpackfilm– has curated a program where artist Mara Mattuschka and her “corporeal” cinema is given a special...
THE DORMANT BODY. TWO TEXTS ON MARINELLA PIRELLI To celebrate the special program Il corpo latente, a selection of Italian experimental pieces curated by Giulia Mazzone and Giuseppe Spina from Nomadica, we share with you two texts by Erik Bullot that look into the...
In 2020, during the lockdown months, we exchanged several emails with Tomonari Nishikawa –an interview that would eventually materialize in the Camera Obscura episode that we devoted to his work. Down below you’ll find part of those exchanges, where Nishikawa tells us...
David Sherman and Rebecca Barten On the occasion of our encounter Micro is Big, which will bring together the representatives of some of our favorite theaters, we share with you one of the first texts to ever have used the term “microcinema”, written by the founders...