"No man is an island, complete on itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the mainland. If a portion of the land should be washed away by the sea, Europe will rest diminished, as if it was a promontory, or...
Article by Lola Clavo Next week, on the BFI monthly strand Essential Experiments, it’s the turn for “Performing Sexuality”: a North American 60s experimental film tasting, revolving around the performance of sex and gender. The three main films of the session are already part of the history...
Adventures and misadventures of a naïf character inside a suffocating atmosphere Interview by Cecilia Díaz Let’s thank that nowadays there is a program such as DO (Denominació d’Origen, Guarantee of Origin), inside the Tv Locals’ Xarxa, that has as a goal and challenge to become a platform...
Review by Jack Wormell Dir: Sean Durkin UK Release: 3rd February Just released this weekend is Sean Durkin’s Martha Marcy May Marlene and I’ve been unable to banish the rhythmic staccato of the title from my mind ever since I saw the trailer back at the end of...
Article by João Serejo, SFFL Festival Programmer. www.sfflondon.org This year we will be hosting the first Student Film Festival London (SSFL 3-5th Feb) and our goal is to fill in the gap between student filmmakers and the industry. As a just graduated Film Curator, I feel that there...
Review by Jack Wormell Playing at the Institute of Contemporary Arts until the 9th February is The Nine Muses, the new film by John Akomfrah, he of Handsworth Songs (1986)fame, which detailed the effect of the Handsworth riots in Birmingham in the 1980’s, and founding member...
Review by Fernando Muñoz Next January 16th the BFI will be showing one of Luis Buñuel’s masterpieces: The Exterminating Angel (1962). This film plays a key work in the heterodox Spanish filmmaker’s filmography. And that is really saying something because Buñuel is one of the most...
ERT ALCO| Filmmaker, Writer, Lecturer and Experimental Film programmer. FILM: Notes of the ephemeral by Chus Domínguez For twenty days the filmmaker Chus Domínguez was hosted in the Eslava’s pension, with the intention to develop an audiovisual documentary about a room in the old town of Pamplona. The resulting work,...
The Unilever Series at Tate Modern REVIEW by Núria Campreciós We are pleased to know that the twelfth commission in The Unilever Series at the Tate Modern is devoted for the first time to the moving image, giving us the opportunity to see, until March 11th of...
It was an unexpected surprise knowing that Pipilotti Rist was invited for the first time to show her work in London. Seeing and living her art was a rather fun than predictable. A woman, with international recognition and prestige, who has reinvented video art and...