John Porter is an essential filmmaker in the history of experimental cinema in Super 8. It is no coincidence that he was one of the interviewees in the book series A Critical Cinema by Scott MacDonald, whose lineup of names is now a kind of star system of avant-garde...
Morada aberta (Open dwelling) is a work that combines formats (digital video, analogue film, archive images, live interventions and a play of screens) to reassemble before our eyes the fragmented memory of the ancestral knowledge of the healers, devalued and silenced...
The Colombian artist Paola Guzmán Figueroa, who lives in Helsinki, tells us about her performance Trazos generacionales (Generational traits), in which she weaves an intimate story mingled with migratory lines and family ties between women. In your performance, the...
Is it true that your earliest film and video works were mostly made in response to compositions and music? You collaborated with composers Phil Niblock and Antoine Beuger, among others? Indeed, at one point I started working a lot with Q-O2*, an arts laboratory for...
This Thursday Pablo Agma presents his film performance Niño monaguillo y sus pecados (Altar boy and his sins) as part of the Desbordamientos evening dedicated to Sinais. Here, the Galician artist (who has visited us before with Hombre de palo (Stick man)) opens up a...
The Portuguese artist Beatriz Freire tells us about the ideas behind her work A Texture Map of Monnegre River, in which the projection is combined with the action of weaving on a live loom. Where did your idea of transferring the codes from fabric to analogue film...
Descubro el rayo, tus ojos tiemblan is an invitation to immerse oneself in a trance: a series of intermittent portraits whose power looks into the physical effects of light on the people portrayed and the spectators. We spoke with its creator, Guillermo Braga from...
Los Caballos De Düsseldorf, an equine collective based in Madrid, are presenting their film Fifty Fifty with live sound accompanied by a small concert. The way of thinking about doorags (an instrument made with obsolete toys and devices) they usually play is applied...
What sparked first your interest in the cosmos? What are the readings/works of art that informed this interest? I have no science background and I grew up in NYC where all I knew was the Moon, the Big Dipper and Orion's Belt. Like many children, I was first obsessed...