by MARUXA RUIZ DEL ÁRBOL Translation by Ana Penades At the end of February, I saw for the first time real cinema, in 16mm and with two intervals to change-over to the next reel. Like every last Thursday of the month, Ümit Mesut’s hands were in charge of...
A review of ‘The Plague’ by Jack Wormell Some summers ago I was stuck in an interminable traffic jam going from the French Pyrenees into Spain to board a plane back to London. The grating slowness of this particular jam (we were stuck on that road...
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...
Space Bending | Curated by Pablo A. Padilla Jargstorf That morning the sky was clear and sunny. The north wind was crossing the meadows, moving gently the smell of the frost. The silence, resounding. Just the tweet of a lark from the distance. Three hours later,...
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...