Found Footage Magazine: Odds & Ends for a New Film - Archival reworkings in handmade cinema

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For its 10th anniversary celebration, Found Footage Magazine travels to Montreal with a screening program of found footage and collage film works made in Spain. Curated and introduced by César Ustarroz and Clint Enns.

Program:

Weird War
Albert Alcoz | 2011 | 9min
Weird War is a found footage film about a super 8 documentary of World War II. Using cameraless techniques, the film shows explosions in the sky backwards, wounded and erased soldiers, damaged frames, perforations and painted abstract images. The soundtrack is made by a distorted voice over, with analog music transformed into raw noises and the sound of takeoff airplanes. All these elements contribute to pointing out war nonsense.

Film Quartet / Polyframe
Antoni Pinent | 2006-2008 | 9min
Film Quartet / Polyframe is conceived as a small cinematic bomb attempting to question the established definition of frame as the minimum unit of (cinematic) time by dynamiting it in four fragments. The film makes use of material found in Hollywood movies and experimental cinema. Such a method makes it possible to maintain image ecology while it provides an analysis of the history of film.

Film Quartet / Polyframe is the first piece of Pinent’s “Film Quartet” trilogy, along with KINOSTURM KUBELKA / 16 variaciones (2009) and G/R/E/A/S/E (2008-2013).

The Schwitters Variations
Alberto Cabrera Bernal | 2012 | 6min
Articulated in three movements through the use of 16mm found footage, The Schwitters Variations
places us at a meeting point where cinema, as a medium, blends with the sculptural and the musical.
The editing, built on patterns, combines the sound plasticity of its cuts with the rhythmic cadence
of its images.

I Think I Said “Yes”
Pere Ginard | 2025 | 4min
I think I said (I…insect…scare…bird…eye…tear…thing…heartbeat…centaur…dream…mylove…) yes

They’re All Dead
Marisa Benito | 2023 | 6min
Family photographs used to be a treasure, passed down from generation to generation,
which we could look at and touch to evoke the memory of a moment, or of a loved one. If we do not look at them, these photos cease to exist. What will the memories of this digital generation be like? People will no longer have a box in which to store the photographs of their lives, of their history.

La mar salada
Elena Duque | 2014 | 3min
“Our love is blue, like the sea, blue” —Christian Castro.
La mar salada is a film about the salty (Galician) sea, with a medley of (Asturian) sea songs by the Coral Bajamar de Luanco.

Disney Attraction Highlights Nº 1
David Domingo | 2009 | 5min
A movie that portrays the wonders of the world through the eyes of a cat.

+ Surprise “bonus » film by courtesy of David Domingo.


Biographies

Albert Alcoz is a filmmaker, researcher and experimental film curator. He has a PhD in Cinematographic Theory, Analysis and Documentation from the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona and he is a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona. He has written the books Resonancias fílmicas. El sonido en el cine estructural (1960-1981) (Shangrila, 2017) and Radicales libres. 50 películas esenciales del cine experimental (UOC, 2019). Since 2005 he creates films and videos that have been screened at numerous international festivals or have been exhibited in art centers.

Alberto Cabrera Bernal is an artist, filmmaker and teacher who works mainly with found footage
from different media, especially, in 16mm. His films merge the cerebral quality of his montages—very often developed through the use of patterns—with the sculptural and musical dimension of his pieces. He has screened in venues such as Anthology Film Archives (New York), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Images Festival (Toronto), Cinemateca Brasileira (Sao Paulo), CCCB (Barcelona) or Instituto Cervantes (Paris). He teaches classes on film and artistic processes in different art centers and universities.

Antoni Pinent is an independent curator of contemporary art, interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker, whose work has been screened internationally at film festivals, cinematheques and museums such as the SF MoMA (2012). He has had individual exhibitions in Venice (2018-2019), Barcelona (2021-2022), New York (2021) and Paris (2023), among others.

David Domingo (aka Stanley Sunday) began making Super 8 films when he was twenty years old, and specializes in super 8mm and 16mm film. Combining images borrowed from classics or B movies with his own, and abstract moments with scenes featuring his favorite actors, Domingo blows hierarchies and causal logic sky high to generate a stream of images of surprising, enigmatic associations that denote a comprehensive knowledge of the tradition of avant-garde and experimental film (Bruce Conner, Andy Warhol, Iván Zulueta, Kenneth Anger and the Kuchar brothers), to whom his work makes many references.

The Spanish-Venezuelan Elena Duque is a filmmaker, film programer, writer and teacher. Her experimental and animated pieces revisit themes such as visual perception and sense of belonging through plastic exercises around places, objects and textures, and have been shown at various international festivals and institutions. She is programmer of (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico in A Coruña, professor at the Universidad Camilo José Cela in Madrid and regularly gives workshops and talks.

Marisa Benito Crespo has a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts and a Master’s Research Degree in Art. She lives and works in Córdoba, Spain, where she teaches audiovisual media at the “Mateo Inurria” School of Art. She combines her professional activity with audiovisual creation and photography. The aesthetics of her work are generated through images shaped by sensory experience, the imaginary and the memory.

Pere Ginard is an illustrator and filmmaker. His work explores notions of perpetual motion and gives rise to a melancholic motley collection of ghosts, monsters, wonders and mystical raptures. His drawings and artist’s books have been showcased at a number of art galleries and he has published several illustrated books. His films have been screened at UnionDocs (New York, US), LIAF (London, UK), Videoex (Zurich, Switzerland), and the San Francisco Cinematheque, among others.

Venue: 

la lumière collective - Montréal, Canadá

Dates: 

Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 19:00

Category: 

Dates: 

Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 19:00
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