Nomadica. Il corpo latente

Nomadica. Il corpo latente

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...

TOMONARI NISHIKAWA. FIRST EXHIBITION

TOMONARI NISHIKAWA. FIRST EXHIBITION

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...

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

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...

JAMES EDMONDS. A HOME OF GEOMETRY AND POETRY

JAMES EDMONDS. A HOME OF GEOMETRY AND POETRY

A Return is a film that makes the concept of return its raison d’être. His creation is, in fact, given by the alternation of footage of two different places that the director has impressed on film and that he overlaid according to criteria that could be defined as...

DEBORAH S. PHILLIPS’ FANTASTIC MOSAIC

DEBORAH S. PHILLIPS’ FANTASTIC MOSAIC

Down below we share with you an excerpt of the interview Especies de espacios with Deborah S. Phillips made by Francisco Algarín Navarro for Lumière, where they discuss the creative process of her monumental and hallucinating film Mosaïc. What was the relationship...

THE MECHANICS OF LIGHTS. THE FILMMAKER-CAMERA OPERATOR

THE MECHANICS OF LIGHTS. THE FILMMAKER-CAMERA OPERATOR

“Have you noticed that all the discourses that can be held on a film, or on the cinema (and large quantities of them have been held), start off from the a priori non-signifying existence of an apparatus producing images, which can then be used indifferently for this...

JUAN SEBASTIÁN BOLLAÍN. CINEMA AND THE URBAN FACT

JUAN SEBASTIÁN BOLLAÍN. CINEMA AND THE URBAN FACT

This year, we wish to bring to the front the utopian film work by Spanish filmmaker and architect Juan Sebastián Bollaín, to whom we’re devoting two on-site film screenings and an online program. His most emblematic work, the tetralogy Soñar con Sevilla, was created...

JEAN-CLAUDE ROUSSEAU. FOUNDING MOMENTS

JEAN-CLAUDE ROUSSEAU. FOUNDING MOMENTS

On the occasion of this 12th edition, (S8) brings to us an illustrated lecture by Jean-Claude Rousseau, during which the French filmmaker will present and analyze a selection of films that connect with his own works in different ways –pieces by Vigo, Duras, Akerman,...