Films by Valentina Alvarado Matos and Carlos Vásquez Méndez In person and online Artists in person
Screening of films by Barcelona-based filmmakers and artists Valentina Alvarado Matos and Carlos Vásquez Méndez, both of whom will be attending in person. The event will be accessible online as well, with a live streaming of the introduction and Q&A from the gallery.
This is the fourth and final screening of the complete retrospective of the work of Dominic Angerame. Since 1968 Angerame has produced more than 30 films on 16mm and several newer works in digital format. Some of these films have never had a public screening. Many of Angerame's films show San Francisco, the city he has lived and worked in since 1979, and its varying cityscape as it looks and changes over time. He has also created short comedies, short-form documentaries and many diary films.
For the participatory animated documentary film as part of the non-profit project "Women. From War to War" shorts are accepted. Any of the techniques, drawn or computer 2D animation, video collage, editing or 3D, whichever best conveys your author's idea. Is there an armed conflict going on in your country right now? If yes, it will be about it. If not, there could be about escalating military violence, tensions over war in neighboring countries, or dissatisfaction with a dictatorial regime, protests now.
The five women filmmakers in this session see cinema as a total medium for awakening the senses. In this programme, life and domestic rituals or gestation periods gradually give way to the exploration of sensuality and sexuality, the unconscious and desire, or delirium and trance. Here, sensory experiences lead to the most ecstatic fantasies.
LIQUID FORM: water in experimental film Two days & two programs of experimental films that incorporate, are inspired by, or focus on water as material and subject.
This programme, curated by Andrea Franco, tries to capture the fascination for Astronomy and the Cosmos of a series of filmmakers who, since the origins of cinema, have explored the appearance and mysteries of the universe. The screen unfolds here like a night sky capable of revealing not only phenomena invisible to the naked eye, as shown in the films by Emily Richardson or Dominic Angerame, but also extravagant fantasies, the fruit of the artist's imagination, (Segundo de Chomón, Georges Melies…).
