At Filmhuis Cavia we are always happy when we can bring the magic of 16mm back to our cinema. This time we are even more excited, as we will be hosting New York-based artist and filmmaker Ryan Marino with his suitcase full of 16mm prints! Having coupled up with wysiwyg in Den Haag to bring Ryan over the Atlantic, we will be screening a retrospective of his work carefully curated by our partners of wysiwyg. The author will be present in the cinema to play his own prints.
Experimental visual artist Federica Foglia intertwines fragments from the work of pioneer of Italian cinema Elvira Notari with orphan films, home movies, and images from her own filmography, creating a cinematic collage that traverses times and geographies.
In dialogue with these images, musician Silvia Cignoli performs live a score for electric guitar, electronics, and voice, evoking and transforming the emotional universe of Notari’s cinema.
The 17th edition of the (S8) Peripheral Film Festival, taking place in A Coruña from 2nd to 7th June, includes 161 films and will host around 80 artists, professionals, and students from all over the world. The inaugural session will be a double bill, with the programme “The Cosmic Shutter” dedicated to the firmament and an original proposal from Jeanne Liotta, who will create a cinematic eclipse live
Dates:
Tuesday, June 2, 2026 (All day) to Sunday, June 7, 2026 (All day)
Adriatikino returns 22–24 May to Fermo, Italy, with a second edition devoted to analog cinema in all its forms: found footage and archive, experimental and narrative, animation and film collage. The selection brings together long-standing practitioners and emerging voices from across the world, with a strong presence of Italian filmmakers alongside an international program.
Dates:
Friday, May 22, 2026 (All day) to Sunday, May 24, 2026 (All day)
Maria Lang, along with Ute Aurand, belonged to a group of female students at the Berlin Film and Television Academy who shaped a new experimental film language in the 1980s. During this time, she created her most important films, Familiengruft – ein Liebesgedicht an meine Mutter (1982) and Zärtlichkeiten (1985), which explored lesbian life in Berlin. With the question «Who were the first women to make films in Germany?», Aurand and Lang founded the Filmarbeiterinnen-Abend at the Kino Arsenal.
"Anyway, the notion that anyone would conspire with a halfwit like Oswald to actually assassinate a sitting president is ludicrous on the face of it. They didnt expect that he would even hit Kennedy. That was just a fluke". Let’s try to suggest a few threads – without resolving anything – through five short films. Not to shed light on the assassination of JFK, but to ask whether a plot can also be traced in experimental cinema.
A program of work by Filmmaker Abraham Ravett, with introduction by Dr. Stephen Broomer. Free Ticketed Event Co-presented with AdHoc Supported by The Petman Foundation.
Program:
- 24 Cards ( 2020) 14:48 A tribute to film critic, writer and filmmaker, Donald Richie who from the early 1980's was a friend and mentor. Donald Richie was instrumental in introducing traditional Japanese film to western readers and audiences. The film is SILENT.
