Altar boy and his sins | Niño monaguillo y sus pecados
by Pablo Agma
Saturday, September 6th 2025 | 8PM
filmkoop wien, Komödiengasse 8, 1020 Wien
20–30 min. Spanish with english subtitles.
"Altar Boy and His Sins" is a film performance that combines analog projection intervened in real time, sound, and scenic action. Structured in three acts, it reconstructs the fragmented memory of an ecclesiastical childhood. Ceremonies, revelations, and whispered confessions unfold through a flickering, unstable image that overlaps, decomposes, and resists narrative linearity. The dissolution of traditional editing gives way to a perceptual drift, where recording time and playback time coexist and contaminate one another, generating a hybrid temporality.
Pablo Agma (Vigo, Spain, 1997) is a filmmaker and audiovisual artist based in Vienna. His practice unfolds at the intersection of experimental cinema, performance, and the use of analog media such as 16mm, Super 8, and VHS. He is interested in the physicality of these formats and their potential to disrupt the frameworks that shape how images are produced, circulated, and perceived.
Working through a poetics of misalignment, he explores how subtle deviations in symbols, archetypes, cultural gestures, and cinematic conventions can open fissures in dominant narrative structures. These displacements often take shape through autofictional strategies mediated by error, confessions, or masking.
His work has been presented at La Casa Encendida, Cineteca Matadero, (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, L’Alternativa, or Filmin.
Free entry / limited capacity