[Frameworks] (S8) 8th Mostra de Cinema Periférico. A Coruña (Spain)

Fri May 26 10:17:52 UTC 2017

Hi, everybody!

*(S8)* has been “opening the doors of perception” for eight years with
inspiring avant-garde cinema that does not reach theaters.

A unique event in Spain and an international reference in its field.

Every year *(S8)* discovers a series of fundamental filmmakers and films to
the Spanish audience.

Two of the key filmmakers of this edition are* Aldo Tambellini* and *Helga
Fanderl*.

Painter, sculptor, filmmaker and integral artist, Tambellini began his
journey linked to the New York counterculture of the 60s.

Either with his plastic experiments with film and video, pioneering works
that embrace directly film materiality, either from his position of
cultural preceptor since he founded the Black Gate Theater in 1966, a place
that programmed experimental cinema and theater, where one could see the
work of visionary and controversial filmmakers such as *Bruce Conner, Maya
Deren, Kenneth Anger and Jack Smith* among many others. This complete
program dedicated to Tambellini (curated by *Helena Girón and Samuel
Delgado*) will include a showing of his *"Black Films"*, dedicated to some
of the fundamental movies shown at the *Black Gate Theater (both in 16mm)*,
in addition to a performance and installation.

*Helga Fanderl*, for her part, has been making -since the 80s- films only
in super 8, a format with which she continues working.

For the German filmmaker, living and filmmaking are one and the same thing:
her particular look captures the beauty of everyday life in films that can
almost be understood as haikus, in intimacy with the world around her
thanks to the super 8 camera. She herself prepares and programs every film
showing, as for her each combination of films forms their own rhythms and
resonances, composing each time a different final work, and turning each
projection into a unique event.

This year *(S8)* *will host two screenings of her work, and a third film
and lecture session in which she will also screen some of her movies.*

Another fundamental part of the program of *(S8) is the thematic block* that
this year, under the title *"Objects and Apparitions",* is dedicated
to a*ppropriation
films or found footage.*

The title is a nod to the American surrealist* Joseph Cornell* (via the
poem that Octavio Paz dedicated to him), a pioneer of appropriation film,
inspiration, guiding light and "patron saint" of this edition. Within this
block, of course, a showing will be devoted to Cornell’s found footage work
made between the 30s and 40s, but there will be also room for many other
filmmakers.

This is the case of *Luther Price*, who will be in Spain for the first
time, bringing two programs of his films and an exhibition.

Price, with a hazardous life marked by misfortune, has been dealing with
pain and trauma in his films since the 1980s. A controversial filmmaker
that melts sordidness and beauty in super 8 and 16mm films that he
re-edits, paints and even buries in his garden for months to play with the
effects of decadence, using found materials such as surgical operations
movies, porno films or home and institutional films. His particular way of
working has made that there are not prints of most of his films: there are
only the originals, which he himself brings and projects, and which we will
see for the first time in Spain exclusively at *(S8).* *Luther Price’s
exhibition* will consist of his collages, mounted on slide frames,
including pieces of film, paint, dust and even insects.

*Cécile Fontaine* will also be part of this block of "Objects and
Apparitions".

The French filmmaker (born in the overseas department of Réunion Island)
studied in the United States, where she began to work in the 80s. Using all
kinds of home resources (from adhesive tape to bleach, soaps and sharp
objects), Fontaine makes film collages in which, under different themes,
she works with the color and graphic properties of the 16mm and super 8
film strip. Her films are an invitation to travel: there are sea themes,
about Japan, microscopic beings, waterfalls, family meals. Using home
movies (of her own and others) and advertising films of all kinds, Fontaine
makes visually stunning collages.

This thematic block is not only made up by found images, but found sounds.
In that sense, the Spanish filmmaker and curator -living in New York- *Mónica
Savirón* recovers and shows the work of the Dutch *Barbara Meter* (whose
films will be seen for the first time in Spain).

In her program we will also see appropriation works in which sound is a key
piece. Meter, who has been a key player in the Dutch avant-garde, and sound
is one of her fundamental expression tools. From sounds of nature to voices
of actors taken from movies, music or radio recordings (which she mixes and
manipulates) populate her films, whose images are composed of own footage,
family photos and documents that Meter treats with the optical printer (a
system of film re-photographing and copying). Her movies, recently restored
by the EYE Film Institut (the Dutch film archive), will be projected in
16mm and 35mm.

Within* "Objects and Apparitions" *there will also be two programs devoted
to recent works of found footage, in a double program called Lost Property
Office.

Filmmakers such as *Dianna Barrie, Daïchi Saïto, Janie Geiser, Pere Ginard
and Sebastian Wiedemann*, among others, make up the varied selection,
showing many different ways of working with found materials, film and video.

The block of "Objects and Apparitions" is completed with the premiere in
Spain of *Potamkin*, by the young Canadian filmmaker *Stephen Broomer *(whom
the festival dedicated a focus last year), a kind of biography of the film
critic of the early twentieth century Harry Potamkin through the films he
wrote about, which Broomer manipulates through various chemical and copying
processes.

In addition, there will be an exhibition regarding this theme, with works
by *Cécile Fontaine, Luther Price and María Cañas *from Seville.

One of the most characteristic and emblematic parts of the festival is the
section Desbordamientos (titled in homage to José Val del Omar)*,* dedicated
to *expanded cinema and film performance.* This year Overflows brings, as
already mentioned, the *performance Moondial by Aldo Tambellini*. Music,
dance, cinema and lumagramas (slides that Tambellini devastated or painted
creating hypnotic circumferences in the dark) are mixed in Moondial, one of
his called Electromedia Performances. The group *Nominoë* and *Sally
Golding*, artists who have toured the most prestigious festivals and
institutions in the world, are this year's highlight of Overflows. The
performance of the French group *Nominoë Parallax *creates different
spatial and geometric games by moving several 16mm projectors around the
room with dollies and using various optical and sound devices. The
London-based Australian *Sally Golding *will bring to (S8) two of her
recent performances, *Light Begets Sound and Ghost - Loud + Strong*, a
stunning performance in which she plays with the optical sound of 16mm
projectors, which she operates with different devices and manipulated
movies, creating a hallucinatory and trance experience. The selection is
closed with the filmmaker and researcher *Albert Alcoz *and the
photographer *Blanca Viñas,* from Barcelona, who bring their performance* La
noche inventada*: sound interventions, slide projections (of photographs
and painted slides), a 16mm projector and three super 8 projectors are the
tricks they use to bring the conflict between static and moving image into
play.

Another one of the already traditional annual events of (S8) is dedicated
to a *guest festival*, a kindred spirit of (S8) in other territories.

This year is the turn of *Crossroads, the San Francisco Cinematheque
Festival *dedicated to experimental cinema, whose programmer *Steve Polta* will
bring a program with works by filmmakers such as *Jem Cohen, Robert Todd or
Mike Hoolboom*, among others. Polta, also a filmmaker, will also show a
selection of his *super 8 works*, films highly appreciated by critics and
experts.

To close an edition full of amazing works, we will also see the most
stimulating and promising *films made in Galicia* in our section Sinais.

On the one hand, with a showing dedicated to the film editor and
filmmaker *Diana
Toucedo *(who also works with found footage in a lyrical and reflexive
way), and the selection of Sinais en Curto, which this year brings together
works by *Carla Andrade, Jaoine Camborda, Helena Girón and Samuel Delgado*,
among others.

See you in A Coruña!

www.s8cinema.com <http://www.s8cinema.com/portal/en/>

-- 
Elena Duque Viña
Telf: (+34) 605431072
elenaduque at gmail.com
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