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Alberto Cabrera Bernal

Alberto Cabrera Bernal (b.October 1976) is a Madrid-based filmmaker, artist and teacher, working in various formats, from video to 35 mm, using almost exclusively archive material, between appropriation and structural cinema.

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Filmadrid 2015

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 01/06/2015 - 17:36

Filmadrid International Film Festival (June 5-13, Madrid) is a newborn festival with the "determination to discover new paths in the landscape of contemporary cinematography". And as such, in its very first edition, presents a very strong commitment with experimental cinema. Eighteen works, feature and short films, will participate in the avant-garde competition, including pieces by Basma Alsharif, Laida Lertxundi, Juan Daniel F. Molero, Pablo Marín and Aura Satz, among others. Four 'guest programmes' complement the avant-garde section, featuring a series of animated non-fiction shorts curated by Elena Duque ('The missing image'); a programme curated by Albert Alcoz & Alberto Cabrera Bernal, filmmakers and editors of the Angular DVD label, who will also present its first release; a session dedicated to veteran filmmaker Adolpho Arrietta; and a series of works on the poems of Galician poet Xosé María Díaz Castro titled 'Proxecto Nimbos'. The Vanguardias Live section challenges several artists to create performative works in ways that they haven't thought of/worked with before; this edition will include performances by Juan Barrero, Lois Patiño and Salomé Lamas.

Dates:
Friday, June 5, 2015 (All day) to Saturday, June 13, 2015 (All day)
Found Footage Magazine

By Marcos Ortega on Sat, 16/05/2015 - 06:12
Found Footage Magazine is an independent semi-annual publication distributed worldwide and printed both in English and Spanish, offering theoretical, analytical and informative contents related to found footage filmmaking. The contents for the first issue, to be released on October 2015, include the extensive monograph on Bill Morrison, 'A Poetic Archaeology of Cinema', by Matt Levine, plus an interview with the filmmaker; essays on the 'ethics of appropriation', and the work of Martin Arnold, Peter Tscherkassky and Santiago Álvarez. The issue also features several articles, including a recount of the most recent edition Festival of (In)appropiation by its director Jaimie Baron, and reviews of contemporary works and recently published books on found footage films.
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Cinema Anèmic #02: Blanca Viñas & Albert Alcoz

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 17/02/2015 - 14:57

Present... "The invented Night"

Screening of several individual and joint works done by photographer Blanca Viñas and filmmaker Albert Alcoz. Unusual optical treatments and singular chemical processes are the base of a unique analogue experimentation -in slides, photographs, super 8 and 16 mm film- documenting natural spaces through hypnotic perspectives.

Dates:
Friday, February 20, 2015 - 20:30
Venue:
Espai ST3 - Barcelona, España
Kinoplaylist: Laida Lertxundi & Alberto Cabrera Bernal

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 25/02/2014 - 18:12

As part of the Cinema Revealed series

Laida Lertxundi and Alberto Cabrera Bernal are two filmmakers who choose celluloid format as a means of expression. Thus, traditional videoplaylist, where a certain character shares his favorite online videos with the audience, becomes in this case a hypnotic session called kinoplaylist, where thanks to two 16mm projectors, the Internet is replaced by real cinema. An innovative proposal with crossed projections where they will share their own movies, inspiring movies by other authors and a final surprise that is a project-specific collaboration between the two artists.

Dates:
Sunday, March 2, 2014 - 18:30
Venue:
CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo - Móstoles, Spain
Xcèntric: Exquisite collages

By Marcos Ortega on Sat, 05/01/2013 - 15:39
Xcèntric: Exquisite collages I & II
Friday, January 11, 20h
Saturday, January 12, 20h
Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

A selection of shorts by classic collage artists alongside new talents.

Programme 1, Jan.11, 20h
- Las Variaciones Schwitters (Alberto Cabrera Bernal, 2012, 6 min)
- Mothlight (Stan Brakhage, 1963, 4 min)
- The Garden of Earthly Delights (Stan Brakhage, 1981, 1 min 30)
- Solar Sight (Larry Jordan, 2011, 15 min)
- Odds and Ends (Jane Congel Belson Shimane, 1959, 4 min)
- Recreation (Robert Breer, 1957, 2 min)
- Jamestown Baloos (Robert Breer, 1957, 6 min)
- Unnamed Film (Caroline Avery, 1989, 45 seg)
- Fil(m) (Frédérique Devaux, 2001, 4 min)
- La Pêche Miraculeuse (Cécile Fontaine, 1995, 10 min)
- Speak (John Latham, 1962, 11 min)

Programme 2, Jan.12, 20h
- Brana Calypso Dendrita (David Domingo, Darío Peña y Dostopos (Ana Pfaff y Ari Ribas), with music of Afrika Pseudobrutismus, 2012, vídeo, 14 min (produced for the Picnic Sessions 2012 of CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo))
- Rabbit (Run Wrake, 2005, 35 mm, 5 min)
- Cineblatz (Jeff Keen, 1967, 16 mm, 3 min)
- Nook & Cranny (Francien Van Everdingen, 2008, 16 mm, 3 min)
- Cats Amore (Martha Colburn, 2002, video, 2 min 30 seg)
- À la Mode (Stan Vanderbeek, 1959-1960, 16 mm, 7 min)
- Tango (Zbigniew Rybcynski, 1981, 35 mm, 8 min)
- Höhenrausch (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, 1999, 16 mm, 4 min)
- Nujiman no borei / 200 000 Fantômes (Jean-Gabriel Périot, 2007, vídeo, 10 min)
- Phantom Canyon (Stacey Steers, 2006, 35 mm, 10 min)
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Projektion - Situative Systeme

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 17/10/2012 - 16:16
Projektion - Situative Systeme
Sunday October 18, 2012, 20h
kunstraum t27
Thomasstr. 27, 12053 Berlin
Curated by Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy

- Feuerfaust (Thorsten Fleisch, Super 8, 1 Min, 1999)
- DIAGRAM II (Jeanne Liotta, 16mm, 4 Min. 2012)

Melting Intermission I (Anja Oornleden & Juan David González Monroy)

- Silber (Jan Korthaeuer, 16mm, 8 Min, 2002)
- 14x14 (Albert Alcoz & Alberto Cabrera Bernal, 16mm, 3 Min, 2012)
- Her Mona (Klaus Telscher, 16mm, 1 Min, 1992)

Melting Intermission II (Anja Oornleden & Juan David González Monroy)

- Ritournelle (Christopher Becks & Peter Miller, 16mm, 4 Min, 2012)
- Flexcam (Thorsten Fleisch, Super 8, 2 Min, 1998)
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Taller de apropiación fílmica en 16 mm

By Marcos Ortega on Sat, 31/03/2012 - 14:57
Taller de apropiación fílmica en 16 mm
Introducción teórica al cine de metraje encontrado, con posterior actividad práctica en 16 mm.
19 y 20 de mayo de 2012
Circuit Torçat, C/ Terol 8 bajos 2, 08012 Barcelona

Impartido por Alberto Cabrera Bernal y Albert Alcoz.

Dirigido a cualquier persona interesada en el cine de apropiación y en el manipulado del soporte cinematográfico en diversos formatos, Súper 8, 16 mm y 35 mm. Contextualización histórica y conceptual de dichas prácticas. Aproximación al trabajo de cineastas dentro de la disciplina con proyecciones escogidas. Actividad de los alumnos desarrollada en 16 mm y exhibición de los resultados.

Módulo teórico:
Introducción al 16 mm. Breve recorrido histórico del formato en el cine de vanguardia, el cine underground y el cine experimental internacional más reciente. Explicaciones de tendencias cinematográficas, cineastas y técnicas fílmicas vinculadas al desmontaje del found footage y a la fisicidad del cine matérico. Acercamiento al cine de metraje encontrado de vocación estructural. Visionados y explicaciones de trabajos fílmicos de realizadores como Hollis Frampton, Thomas Draschan, Jennifer Reeves y otros.

Módulo práctico:
Realización de una pieza colectiva en 16mm a base de fragmentos breves editados bajo consideraciones sistemáticas, manipulados físicamente, atendiendo a cuestiones plásticas herederas del collage. Se terminará también el módulo enseñando el rollo original de alguno de los trabajos de los profesores.
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Muestra itinerante de found footage Playtime

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 14/01/2010 - 15:30

Nif fin (Albert Alcoz, 2007)

Playtime Audioviduales presenta un programa itinerante con obras recientes de found footage español. Presentando los filmes:
Dates:
Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 20:30
Venue:
Off Limits - Madrid , Spain
Alberto Cabrera Bernal - Perforaciones (2009)
Cinema made out of the minimum and essential: light, its projection and a violated media (black film obtained from processing unexposed colour footage). After "Cada cuatro fotogramas" (Every four frames), the approach to 'negative' filmmaking continues, building by demolition, the film showing us what survives the physical removal of any of its parts. The image is made of points of light on the verge of disintegration, holes that pierce a surface, the celluloid, giving us a compulsive drip of frayed forms that will make us think of the outbreak of the screen. The sounds of Mattin, cracked, shrill, lacerating trebles, stick to the images with a maximum relevance. From the first frame, the frontality of the movie avoids complacencies of any kind with the viewer, forcing him to question the resistance of his listening and his eyes.

Rating:

Average: 3.5 (6 votes)
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Alberto Cabrera Bernal - Cada cuatro fotogramas (2009)
Cada Cuatro Fotogramas (Every four frames)
Super 8
Colour/B&W
Sound (stereo)
1.18 min 2009
This film is the result of perforating the physical medium of selected archive footage following the same pattern, every four frames, making the holes appear on screen at regular intervals. The continously perforated Super8 reel manages to add an objectual value to the film, giving the feeling, at the same time, of being before an sculpture.

Cada cuatro fotogramas has been edited in Super8 film, without any aid from digital editing software. This telecine is an exact transcript of the original edit.

Rating:

Average: 4.5 (2 votes)
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