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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
RHAYNE VERMETTE: “THE RUIN IS SOMETHING THAT IS VERY CENTR...
We reproduce an excerpt from an interview with Rhayne Vermette by Peruvian critic, researcher and programmer José Sarmiento Hinojosa. Canadian artist and filmmaker Rhayne Vermette moved out of academia to pursue her own artistic vision. Years later, we’re witnessing...
INTERVIEW WITH NICOLE REMY: WINNER OF THE eSe8_LAB CREATION ...
In a certain light (Con cierta luz), the project by Nicole Remy, was one of the six selected in last year’s INPUT, our space for Advice on Cinematographic Projects in Development. Tutored by Albert Alcoz, a filmmaker, researcher and programmer, In a certain light (Con...