Discover the Avant-Garde and Experimental Cinema at A Coruña Peripheral Film Festival (S8)

You have to go to the movies. The A Coruña Peripheral Film Festival (S8) starts its XIV edition claiming that cinema to which he goes by vocation, with curiosity as the flag. The pieces that will be exhibited there, until June 4, invoke our adventurous spirit and claim for the moving image a relaxed look, ready for change.

To better navigate your grid, from FOTOGRAMS, we break down the big names in your programming, all key figures of avant-garde and experimental cinema. Remember: until June 4, at the Palexco, the Filmoteca de Galicia and the Fundación Luis Seoane in A Coruña.

Anthony McCall

British resident in New York, Anthony McCall is known worldwide for his works of “solid light”, a series that began in the 70s with his famous ‘Line Describing a Cone’, in which a volumetric shape composed of projected light slowly evolves over three-dimensional space. McCall’s work has been exhibited in many international museums and art galleries, including the MoMA in New York and the Tate Modern in London.

McCall will visit Spain for the first time invited by a film festivaldue to the focus in which (S8) will screen their collective films ‘Argument’ y ‘Sigmund Freud’s Dora’ (Saturday, June 3 | 7:30 p.m.). The filmmaker will also be the star of the closing ceremony of the festivalwith a simultaneous staging of her lighting works in analogue format, including the same ‘Line Describing a Cone’ (Sunday, June 4 | 5:00 p.m.). In addition, Anthony McCall will give a masterclass where he will delve into his idea of ​​cinema and the evolution of his performative actions (Saturday, June 3 | 11:00 am).

Barbara Sternberg

Barbara Sternberg

Barbara Sternberg began making films in the 1970s. Her films, which deal with the personal, the political, and the cycles of life and death, have been screened internationally at the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Kino Arsenal in Berlin, or the MoMA in New York. In fact, in 2011 received the highest award in the world of visual arts in Canada. His work stands out for highlighting the properties of photochemical cinema, exploring all the faces of color, mechanics, chemistry and film optics.

Sternberg’s work can be compared in wealth and importance to that of artists such as Barbara Hammer or Carolee Schneemann. The focus (S8) dedicates to you will be developed in two programs (the thursday 1 and the friday 2 June at 7:30 p.m.), premiere in Spain of a large part of his filmography, in its original 16 mm format.

John Price

Each year, (S8) dedicates an entire section, Overflows, to the film performance. This year, Overflows comes with proposals from the Canadian John Price and the South Korean artist Hangjun Lee. Two main courses:

John Price

listed as one of the “new impressionists” of cinemaJohn Price has produced experimental films, dance and film diaries since 1986. His passion for photography has led him to work with traditional cameras and expired emulsions, in order to reveal reality through and through other media.

Investigation and visual enjoyment are mixed in his works, as we can see in ‘There is Light at the Top of the Tower!!’, the performance inspired by the Tower of Hercules that he has designed exclusively for the (S8), which will take place on Friday, June 2 at 11:00 p.m. This is a proposal around the sea and the lighthouses, whose mechanism Price equates to that of the film camera. A unique experience that will also feature a live sound intervention by the Galician sound artist TORSO.

In addition, Price’s cinema will also have a space at the festival, throughout two programs that address issues such as nature, time and the human condition. In them will also premiere three new pieces, including the last of his ‘Sea Series’, a set of films that are close to the pictorial concept of seascapes. will be the Wednesday May 31 at 7:30 p.m. and the thursday 1 at 17:00.

Hangjun Lee

Hangjun Lee

Unpublished also in our country are the performances that the South Korean Hangjun Lee brings to (S8). Hangjun Lee is a key figure in revitalizing the experimental film scene in his countryand in addition to being a filmmaker, he is a researcher and was responsible for the programming of the EXIS festival, a leading event for the avant-garde in Korea.

On Saturday the 3rd at 11pm, Hangjun Lee will perform a staging that combines the 16mm projection of his works ‘Film Walk’ y ‘Phantom Schoolgirl Army’, with the use of the film projector as a sound creation instrument. By manipulating the film through the projector’s mechanisms, it is capable of generating a quadraphonic sound and thus creating a unique visual and sound spectacle.

Benjamin Ellenberger

Benjamin Ellenberger

He is one of the most exciting current creators in Argentina. The festival will take a broad tour of his work, including the world premiere of the last piece of his series ‘Night Reflection’, a set of films that create a record of the space of Buenos Aires. In them, Ellenberger uses various techniques to push the sensitivity of film a step further and capture the night, which has rarely been accurately captured in photochemical format without the use of lighting. Besides, hindsight (May 31 | 5:00 p.m.) will also include the performative work of Ellenberger.

Urbano Lugris

Urbano Lugris

The dreamlike, idealized and dreamy world of Urbano Lugrís stars in the image of (S8). The festival thus honors the “artist of the sea”, the greatest exponent of surrealism in our country and from A Coruña by birth, who inspired much of his work in the city of the Tower of Hercules. In addition, as every year, a thematic program has been prepared according to the image, which on this occasion will be dedicated to those films that seek to resume the vision of childhood: they will be “enchanted landscapes” like those painted by Lugrís.

The session will open, on Tuesday, May 30 at 5:00 p.m., with the international premiere of ‘And so it came about’, by Charlotte Pryce, and you will be able to see outstanding films contemporary filmmakers such as Gaëlle Rouard, Ute Aurand or Jennifer Reeves, as well as the legendary Czech creator Jan Svankmajer.

Ivan Zulueta

The legacy of Iván Zulueta

Filmmaker, draftsman, illustrator, filmmaker, decorator, actor and photographer, Zulueta challenged the barriers between artistic disciplines, always moved by his passion for images, almost always in motion. forerunner of cinema underground and experimental in our countryIván Zulueta was already the protagonist and source of inspiration for the first edition of the exhibition, in 2010. Thirteen years later, more than 60 pieces from the artist’s personal archive that had not come to light until they were acquired by the Spanish Film Library will be screened. , in its effort to preserve and disseminate the cinematographic heritage of our country.

We leave you with a preview of the programming that is coming, until June 4, in A Coruña:

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