The optical printer, a device consisting of one or more projectors mechanically linked to a camera for copying film or creating special effects, is historically associated with industrial cinema. In experimental cinema, a series of women filmmakers appropriated this traditionally masculine tool to explore its relationship with the body, imagination and memory. This session includes an introductory talk on the use and history of the optical printer in experimental cinema by the researcher Julia Cortegana.

Monographic session devoted to the French filmmaker Jean-Michel Bouhours, the creator of animation films full of movement and colour, centring on his works most closely linked with painting. The screening will be followed by a conversation between the filmmaker and the animator and programmer Elena Duque.