We spoke with Carlos Castillo, a multidisciplinary and multifaceted artist, about his work and the fascinating Venezuelan avant-garde Super 8 movement of the 1970s and 1980s. You come from other artistic disciplines such as drawing or sculpture, so how did you get...
This year’s (S8) will end on Saturday with the Wandering Projection, brought to us by the self-run laboratories Laia-Torre (Porto) and Mire (Nantes). A 16 mm screening will tour the streets of A Coruña thanks to this project, which blends art, technology, solidarity,...
We spoke with Sonya Mwambu about the powerful roots that have shaped their performance, Maono Mzimi. What is the origin of Maono Mzimi? The performance includes some texts as well as footage from different sources. Could you tell us about this, all the pieces that...
Venezuelan artist Valentina Alvarado Matos tells us about the process behind voy raspando la hoja y la voz, part of our Desbordamientos (Overflows) Section, and the importance of collage, the fragmentary nature and permeability of meanings between image and sound in...
Tekno Fantasy, a collective made up of Laura Ibáñez López, Camila Reyes and Iker González, will contribute their expanded film to the Sinais section this Thursday at the Luis Seoane Foundation. We talked with them about fantasy, crossing disciplines, and “little...
Sixty years of Super 8, and another festival dedicating a special place to films made in a format with its own ethics and aesthetics of the kind exuded by the work of the Argentine Daniela Cugliandolo, to whom we are dedicating a programme. We are publishing an...
’TORTUGA [pasaje cromático 4]’, by Brenda Boyer was the project chosen in the last invitation from BAICC, the International Artistic Residency for Cinematographic Creation promoted by (S8) together with AC/E and LIFT. In September 2024, Brenda travelled to Toronto to...
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...