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...
We reproduce a fragment of Scott MacDonald’s interview with Morgan Fisher talking about his work in commercial cinema and how it took him to his film Standard Gauge. Scott MacDonald: I was surprised to learn that you had worked on commercial features with Roger Gorman...
We interviewed Tomás Rautenstrauch, director of the Narcisa Hirsch Film Archive or Filmoteca, about the recent work to preserve and discover films by this free, vital filmmaker. Right now you are very involved in the work of the Narcisa Hirsch Film Archive or...
Paraíso (Paradise) is flourishing for another year: an event for Fine Arts students that welcomes them from the University of Vigo in Pontevedra and the University of Salamanca to gather with their films created for the occasion. Let us read here the opinions of three...