Your films are very much linked to optical and photochemical processes. How did this way of working evolve? Dianna: Many of the Super 8 films became almost films about the camera’s possibilities. We would do a lot of things frame-by-frame, the small amount of double...
Healing Ray is a performance that the Madrid-based artist, filmmaker and architect Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas, together with the musician Ylia, will be presenting in the Desbordamientos section. It includes three 16mm projectors and sound created live. We talked...
With the clear vision of cinema that inspires us, and the importance of appreciating and giving space to the past and to international creators, through (S8) we also realise the urgent need to bring together the people who are creating here and now, and to open up new...
In September 2021, Bruno Delgado Ramo travelled to Toronto to work at the LIFT (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto) facilities on his project Frame Manoeuvres to Port, having been selected to enjoy the International Artistic Residency for Cinematographic...
In the last invitation from BAICC, the International Artistic Residency for Cinematographic Creation promoted by (S8) together with AC/E and LIFT, the chosen project was the one by Laura Moreno Bueno, The sound of images. At the beginning of 2022 she travelled to...
Whereas in the special Camera Obscura we dedicated to Alexandre Larose back in 2020 we were able to familiarise ourselves with his fascinating work processes, in 2022 we will finally be able to see the equally fascinating results of those processes on the screen. A...
The Argentine filmmaker, researcher, translator and editor Pablo Marín writes about one of the films by the Austrian Philipp Fleischmann that we will be seeing in this year’s (S8). Two lines split a cinema screen down the middle. They cut it horizontally and then...
One of the films that guides us into outer space and into the mental space we claim for ourselves in this year’s programme of the same name is Jordan Belson's Allures. Below, we present the text that Gene Youngblood dedicates to it in his legendary book Expanded...
To mark the programme we are dedicating to Ute Aurand, "The tonality of days", we are recovering this conversation between the filmmakers about her film Terzen (Programme 1), which is a compilation of what Aurand filmed throughout almost the entire decade of the 90s:...