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...
Jeannette Muñoz. An Infinite Process
You always talk about your work as a process of bringing film fragments together, as if creating a piece that is always in progress. What’s the role of this in your art? That’s something that has to do with my early activity as an analogue photographer. Not in the...
María Palacios Cruz. Extracting Pearls from the LUX Collect...
LUX is a vital organisation for experimental cinema not only in the UK, but also in Europe. Its origins trace back to the famous London Film-makers Co-op, which was the starting point one of the most rich and active avant-garde scenes ever, a vibrant community of...
Stefano Canapa. Visualizing Sound
Stefano Canapa discusses with us his exploration of sound in his work: we talk about his performance Wavelength –along with the sound artist Antoine Birot– and his film The Sound Drifts, included in our program Old Friends, New Friends (Viejos y nuevos amigos)....
Prismáticas. Threading as a Political Gesture
Our interview with Prismáticas –an art collective founded by the Spanish artists Pilar Monsell and Aitziber Olaskoaga– starts with a performance involving a replication of the gestures that are put into action when using a sewing machine and a cinema projector. This...
Carla Andrade. Working with Spaces
You started out as a photographer, but at some point in your career you took an interest in moving image. What does it mean for you, what have you found appealing in the field of cinema? Well, that’s actually something I keep asking myself, what is that I find most...
María Meseguer. Pictures in the Dark
We interview photographer María Meseguer to discuss her exhibition and her new photo book 9/10 (S8) – her particular vision of the festival’s history. The first (second) edition I started collaborating with the festival because Ángel and Lucía Rolle, who had already...
7 Limbos: The Secret Cults of Noise
On May 31 the (S8) festival opened with the international premiere of 7 limbos, a film by Alexandre Cancelo and Berio Molina consisting in a series of audio performances (some of which overflew the boundaries of the screen to invade the streets of Coruña last Friday)....
Madi Piller: An Interview
Here we present a fragment of the interview made by Mike Hoolboom to Madi Piller in 2016, included in the book Shock, Fear, and Belief: The Films and Videos of Madi Piller, edited by Clint Enns and Mike Hoolboom in the ocassion of Madi Piller’s retrospective in...