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)....
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...
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...
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...
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)....
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...
Friedl vom Gröller (Photo: Maria Meseguer) "Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, a German philosopher from the 18th Century, said: 'the most entertaining surface on earth is the human face'. It’s the same case for me. Everywhere I am I look at human faces and the interest for...
How did you start to deal with personal things in your films? I had a teacher, Rick Hancox, who discussed how in order to make a film about the world, your first need to look at yourself. I had a lot of family photographs and I decided that I would go into these...
“Most of the experimental work demands something from the audience: patience, interpretation, mixed feelings. People aren’t used to that and get frustrated and impatient. But, if you are ready to search your expectations, you would experience much deeper levels of...