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1.13.17
Burning with love. The Super 8s of Val del Omar The CCCB's cinema
In the 1970s, Val del Omar started to film frequently in Super 8. These reels, in the form of essays and notebooks, include the fabulous experiences …
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1.15.17
Spaces for creation. Manon de Boer The CCCB's cinema
Resonating Surfaces is the portrait of a city (Sao Paulo) and a woman (psychoanalyst Suely Rolnik, through the Brazilian dictatorship of the sixties, …
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1.19.17
Patrick Bokanowski. The screen as a canvas The CCCB's cinema
Premiere of the second and latest feature film of French artist and filmmaker Patrick Bokanowski (L’Ange), who masterfully transmutes reality …
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1.22.17
Things of my life: the ethnographic cinema of Chick Strand The CCCB's cinema
Most of the films that Chick Strand made between the sixties and eighties are made up of portraits of the people she met on her journeys around …
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1.29.17
A bitter well and an orchard of pomegranates: "Lacrima Christi", by Teo Hernández The CCCB's cinema
“Making Lacrima Christi, I realised I have two opposing blood lines.” Instead of characters, in Lacrima Christi we recognise the …
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2.2.17
Anne Rees-Mogg. Sentimental Journey The CCCB's cinema
Anne discovered the film camera late on and started to make films. In a way, her films form part of an ongoing experimental process, of invented …
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2.9.17
On the meaning of construction. Robert Beavers The CCCB's cinema
In The Painting, Beavers intercuts details from a Flemish tryptic, portraying a saint about to be quartered—The Martyrdom of Saint …
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2.12.17
L.A. Plays Itself The CCCB's cinema
Along with other films in the early seventies, like Deep Throat or Boys in the Sand, L.A. Plays Itself is a formal erotic adventure without the …
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2.16.17
Cinema of the intimate. The limits of the filmable The CCCB's cinema
According to Scott McDonald, Kazuo Hara’s films “pushed the limits of the filmable”. In its exploration of family, feminism and sex, …
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2.19.17
Rituals of transfiguration The CCCB's cinema
In Christmas on Earth, Rubin filmed an orgy in an unspecified place, outside time and space. The double superposed screening of this film played out …
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2.23.17
The voyeuristic camera: visual spaces of desire The CCCB's cinema
While Herbert’s Porch Glider and Two Figures manifest the more explicit eroticism of naked bodies in spaces fetishized by the voyeur, the pieces …
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3.5.17
New Narcissuses after Cocteau: the acid grooves of José Rodríguez Soltero The CCCB's cinema
The two films in this session were made with super-saturated Kodachrome II. Whereas Jerovi is a sexual interpretation of the myth of Narcissus, in …
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3.9.17
Disturbing strangeness. "Dialogue Secret" by Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki The CCCB's cinema
«Rebellion is at the core of Klonaris and Thomadaki’s art. Whereas, in the 1970s, the experimental film scene was dominated by a formal, …
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3.12.17
Afterimages. Films & Performances by Kerry Laitala The CCCB's cinema
Xcèntric, in collaboration with CRATER-Lab, presents a double bill of films and performances, where San Francisco filmmaker Kerry Laitala …
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3.16.17
Bruce Conner (I): Movie in my Head The CCCB's cinema
Five of Conner’s most iconic films highlight his development of editing strategies between the late 1950s and the mid-seventies, and his …
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3.19.17
Bruce Conner (II): Breakaways The CCCB's cinema
This programme contains Conner’s early films about dance and popular music, like BREAKAWAY, and others such as MONGOLOID, a video clip for a …
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3.30.17
Agitprop. Art as a weapon of combat in the cinema of Santiago Álvarez and Travis Wilkerson The CCCB's cinema
A chance meeting in Habana with legendary Cuban filmmaker Santiago Álvarez changed the course of US producer’s Travis Wilkerson’s …
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4.2.17
Acts without words, correspondence without a sender. From Morgan Fisher and Thom Andersen to Laida Lertxundi The CCCB's cinema
An ice-cream filmed at four fps that melts in five minutes; a portrait of Olivia’s Place, since demolished: Andersen’s early work, …
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4.6.17
Poet on a Business Trip The CCCB's cinema
Filmed in 2002, Poet on a Business Trip was not edited until ten years later. The film is based on the 16 poems that Shu wrote on his travels, …
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4.13.17
Musical portraits (I): Step Across the Border The CCCB's cinema
A capricious, provocative documentary about composer, improviser and multi-instrumentalist Fred Frith’s conception of sound and music. The …
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4.16.17
Musical portraits (II): Let’s Get Lost The CCCB's cinema
Well-known fashion photographer Bruce Weber (Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1946) portrays mythical jazz trumpeter Chet Baker in this classic work. …
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4.20.17
Focusing on the landscape The CCCB's cinema
Exploring the representation of nature in the film medium serves to transfigure it. Speeding up its development in time, suspending its physical …
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4.30.17
El auge del humano The CCCB's cinema
The dissatisfied lives of young people in Argentina, Mozambique and Filipinas are joined by the internet in this singular film, a winner at last …
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From 10.3.17 to 10.5.17
Workshop "Extreme Frames" Stop Motion Workshop by Martha Colburn
This workshop will begin with discussing and screening different films demonstrating various stop-motion techniques, including charcoal drawing, …
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10.5.17
Martha Colburn: Extreme Frames Screening in presence of the filmmaker
Program: What’s on? (1997, 16mm, 1.5 min); There’s a pervert in our pool! (1998, 16mm, 3.5 min); Lift Off (1998, 16mm, 3.5 min); Hey …
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From 4.9.18 to 5.13.18
First Person Xcèntric Archive
News From Home (1977) Chantal Akerman, France, 85’ Lost, Lost, Lost (Diaries, Notes and Sketches), Reel 2 (1976) Jonas Mekas. USA, …
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