The best known camera-less productions of Steven Woloshen share the verve and pace of the freer works of Norman McLaren and the joie de vivre of Robert Breer’s films. Colour, graphics and music take the lead in films that regale the eyes and the ears. But there is another interesting facet to the Canadian filmmaker, less known and more mature and, if possible, even more original, using found footage and formalistic mechanisms reminiscent of structural and materialist cinema, such as his latest film, The Dead Sea Scrolls.

To an observer, a flash of light in the dark would draw a kind of constantly moving arabesque that catches their eye. It does not take much more to realise what cinema is: perhaps just a projector running in a dark hall or the projection of the two films that make up this session: Lights, by António Palolo, ★, by Johann Lurf,, where abstract images and research into light are followed by figurations of the sun, constellations, stars and galaxies.

Robert Beavers returns in person to Xcèntric to present a programme that features Eros, O Basileus by Gregory Markopoulos and three of his films, including his latest work Among the Eucalyptuses.

Thursday February 15th, 19:30h
Masterclass with Helga Fanderl

German filmmaker Helga Fanderl films her films in Super8, camera in hand, with no postproduction. She also carefully constructs her own programmes of screenings for each occasion and presents them in person. In this performative talk, she will explain in detail her filmic practice and illustrate it with a series of pieces that she will screen herself in Super8.

Sunday February 18th, 19:30h
Helga Fanderl. Films 2000-2016