“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...
THE ROOM INSIDE/THE ROOM OUTSIDE (THE CAMERA). NOTES ON BRUN...
Down below, you’ll find a series of thoughts by artist and researcher Esperanza Collado –a selection of excerpts from a longer text on Una película en color and Un baile con Fred Abstrait, two films by Bruno Delgado Ramo, whose work will be featured this year in the...
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
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,...
JODIE MACK. POPULAR ABSTRACTIONS
This year one of the episodes of Camera Obscura is devoted to Jodie Mack, who visited the festival back in 2014 with her program Let Your Light Shine. On the occasion of this new encounter with her work, we bring back a conversation we had with her regarding her...
PABLO MARÍN BY STEPHEN BROOMER
We bring together two old friends of the festival, very dear to (S8): Pablo Marín, to whom we are devoting a complete episode of our program Camera Obscura, and Canadian filmmaker and researcher Stephen Broomer. Broomer wrote about Marín in his article, published in...
DAVID DOMINGO. A LETTER TO HIS FANS.
Below these lines you can access, in facsimile format, a letter that David Domingo (aka Davidson) addressed to his fans on the occasion of the premiere, in 2009, of his film Película sudorosa.
OPEN CALL FOR 5th BAICC – International Artistic Resid...
The Mostra de cinema peripérico (S8), in collaboration with Acción Cultural Española - AC/E (Spain) and the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto-LIFT (Canada), opens the call for the 5th edition of the International Artistic Residencies of Cinematographic...
José Val del Omar, at the core of (S8) 2021
This year, the festival inaugurates a collaboration with Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) –an initiative intended to promote the dissemination of José Val del Omar’s work via a twofold film program, a special online show, and a conference that will gather a group of...









