FRANCI DURÁN. SPECIES, SPACES AND ETHICS

FRANCI DURÁN. SPECIES, SPACES AND ETHICS

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...

SUPER 8: LIMITED AND ENDLESS

SUPER 8: LIMITED AND ENDLESS

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...

LYNN LOO. THE HONESTY OF THE PROCESS

LYNN LOO. THE HONESTY OF THE PROCESS

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...

MORGAN FISHER. STANDARD GAUGE MEMORIES

MORGAN FISHER. STANDARD GAUGE MEMORIES

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...

FILMOTECA NARCISA HISCH. THE CABINET OF TREASURES

FILMOTECA NARCISA HISCH. THE CABINET OF TREASURES

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...

PARADISE FOUND

PARADISE FOUND

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...

MARGARET HONDA. MATERIAL MEANS

MARGARET HONDA. MATERIAL MEANS

An Interview with Margaret Honda on Spectrum Reverse Spectrum and Color Correction by Jordan Cronk, originally published in Reverse Shot, a publication of Museum of the Moving Image in New York. With a background primarily in sculpture, Los Angeles–based...