When, how, and why did you come up with the idea of creating a festival? Ana Domínguez: We were tired of working according to commercial models of cinema and television. We’d been there for a while, I was part of the art department (set, atrezzo). It’s a job that one...
The Co-op + Creating & Exhibiting Art My background, my influences were not from film, from cinema. I mean, I knew cinema very well, and in London, as a student, I saw all the Godard, Antonioni… the new-wave, and the supposed advanced cinema, but I wasn’t so...
Painting and Natural History When I was making artwork, originally I was interested in painting. But then I felt that painting was too static, and somehow the end result was not reflective of all the processes of thinking that were going on in my mind, obviously, in...
Experimenting with the material and trying to find new images plays a major role in most of your films. Where does that come from? Well, one looks for a way to express things. I always thought: if you have a camera, and you buy a lens for it, all your pictures will...
You’re a filmmaker and a preservationist, or, as you have said yourself, “an accidental preservationist”. How did you start preserving and restoring film? When I started making films, my first jobs were in animation, with an animator camera. That led me to thinking...
How did you get to specialize in experimental films? I’ve been a film lover since I was pretty young. And most people that get very passionate about film usually start with the more obvious stuff, the classics, or the new exciting movies when you’re young, and that...
How you came up with the idea of the kind of performative lecture you’ll be offering? I’ve always been very inspired by the long tradition of illustrated lectures, which goes back many hundreds of years, within film history. But within history, you have also the...
THE ORIGINS OF LEC Morris Manuel Trujillo: LEC is an evolution of a project started by a group of friends, including myself, named La Trinchera Ensamble, which was created in 2003-2004. Back then, the people involved, and who became closer friends during this process...
How did you start working with analogue media, more precisely with super 8? I started working with analogue formats in Mexico, with La Trinchera, an art collective that later led to the foundation of LEC with Morris Trujillo and Elena Pardo. We mainly developed art...