This session proposes a series of conceptual correspondences between the most recent films of LA-based filmmaker Laida Lertxundi and some of the early works of two of her main references, Morgan Fisher and Thom Andersen. 

Bruce Conner is noted for his transgressive, pioneering use of found footage, but he also made and edited films. His career provides an index of US counterculture attitudes, from the psychic experiments of the beat generation and hippies to the appropriations of punk rock. These two programmes, ranging from his first films to his latest digital projects, reaffirm Conner’s importance as a filmmaker who is both innovative and influential.

This session is dedicated to the Cinema of the Body by Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki, two Greek artists based in France who take us to a field where women are liberated from patriarchal ties and discover themselves in a free territory.