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Brenda Boyer is the creator of TURTLE [chromatic passage #4], the winning project for this eighth BAICC – International Artistic Residencies for Cinematographic Creation 2024/25. The assessment committee made up of a representative from each of the three entities...
There are 7 vacancies. Duration: 7 days. From 28thJuly to 3rd August 2024. Cost: €700. The price includes accommodation, food, a studio-workshop and all the necessary materials. The week-long workshop will teach artisanal production of Super 8 and 16 mm...
● A record (S8) showed more than 140 films from 20 nations, 31 of them world premieres and 80% created by women filmmakers ● The presence of legendary experimental figures such as Morgan Fisher and Margaret Honda, as well as the retrospective dedicated to the pioneer...
Sinais, our recent film programme from Spain and Portugal, seen from the other shore by Ivonne Sheen, the Sinais Latin America programmer. The experience of capturing and projecting images as an event, a situation, a memory, a detonator, navigation in the underwater...
What drew you towards cinema in the first place? How did you decide to be a filmmaker? While I’m not a purist (it’s all medium to me: film, digital, paint, ink, photo-chemistry, code…), what drew me to cinema was the physicality of film. I fell madly in love with the...
THE8FEST Scott Miller Berry, one of the founders of the8fest back in 2008, tells us about this small gauge festival today represented at (S8) by Robin Riad. Why did you decide to start a festival specifically on super 8 films? The four founders are all Super 8...
Phil Hoffman tells us the story of his project, the Film Farm in Ontario, Canada, that turns 30 years old this year. THE INSPIRATION By the late 80’s I had finished a series of autobiographical films, and luckily had the opportunity to travel. On these trips I did...
FRAGMENT OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES. A LETTER TO THIRD WORLD WOMEN WRITERS [1] Ivonne Sheen Mogollón, Sinais Latinoamérica curator, shares with us one of the texts by Gloria Anzaldúa that guided and inspired her selection. 1980 May, 26th Dear mujeres de color, I feel...
The idea of pattern (in terms of graphics, visuals and sounds) seems to be very present in your work, could you tell us a bit about this? It was never intentional for me to use graphic or geometrical motifs. Each piece started out independently with a curiosity. For...