Pablo Marín was born in 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In addition to teaching (Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires; Centro de Investigación y Enseñanza en Cine y Video (CYEVIC), Buenos Aires) and writing on film (La región central, Kilómetro 111), he is a film and video curator and filmmaker. He also curated the DVD Dialéctica en suspenso: Argentine Experimental Film and Video, published by Antennae Collection.
Ten experimental films made in Argentina throughout the last ten years. From epistolary exchanges to historical memory, from the structural analysis of a place to its hallucinated revisitation, they reflect a profound image of a distant land. The films in this programme summarise a near past, and are the outcome of a common battle. In uncertain times, these films also appear as a luminous auspice for what cinema will become.
With the presence of curator Orazio Leogrande and filmmaker Azucena Losana.
In the last fifteen years, Spanish cities have seen the flourishing of heterogeneous communities devoted to maintaining analog film culture. Through material exchange, mutual influence, informal screenings, and friendship, three generations of filmmakers intermingle in Madrid, Barcelona, Coruña, and San Sebastian in an extraordinary moment for Spanish poetic cinema. These programs survey the output of 24 filmmakers who continue to work in 16mm and Super-8, cultivating a cinema in tension with the quotidian in a drive to capture or conjure experience.
Dates:
Saturday, May 13, 2023 (All day) to Sunday, May 14, 2023 (All day)
Todo libro como este —una colección de ensayos hecha sobre, con, alrededor o en compañía de algo—es una empresa a la vez didáctica y literaria. En Una luz revelada. El cine experimental argentino, Pablo Marín describe imágenes y sonidos a la vez que define y redefine conceptos que se encontraban esparcidos, aventurando palabras donde antes había silencios.
Their approaches to found footage, at once likeminded and singular, have served Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller well since 1999, during which time the two of them have collaborated on nearly thirty films and photographic works. Varied metaphors and modes of inquiry have been used to analyze their oeuvre: to some, Girardet and Müller provide a “suggestive continuum,” exposing the patterns of light and darkness, absence and presence, by which cinema operates; to others, the filmmakers dissect the body of film history and of the cinematic apparatus, suggesting the moving image as a corporeal grouping of skin, guts, brains, and bones to pick apart.
Critic and filmmaker Pablo Marín presents an illustrated talk and two programmes on Argentine experimental cinema with works from the 1970s and the present, the two most significant periods in Argentina’s cinema. The films in these sessions stand out for their formal and political radicalism, reflecting the society of the time.
Some texts and interviews recently published online:
"Infinite Spirit: Michael Snow" - One of cinema’s primary colors, filmmaker Michael Snow remembers a rambunctious screening of a foundational work in New York, by Amy Taubin.
Argentine Experimental Cinema is a unique program composed of eleven short films that exhibit the contemporary super 8mm practices of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The contributing artists use a variety of different methods to explore the small format's materialistic and imaginative latitude. This includes direct filmmaking and other cameraless approaches, multiple exposures and matte boxes, the use of archival footage, and in-camera editing techniques.
Dates:
Friday, September 28, 2018 - 20:00 to Saturday, September 29, 2018 - 19:55
At the beginning of the new millennium, an explosion of experimental film took place in the Buenos Aires movie scene, and creators whose work attracted attention at world festivals began to appear in large numbers. In seven works by various authors the book Buenos Aires Experiment seeks to look at the conditions of experimental filmmakers´ work and to reflect on it in the context of broader artistic scene. It also follows links to Argentinean experimental authors from the late 1960s to early 1980s, which the young generation endorse.
Argentinian filmmaker Ignacio Tamarit is coming to Europe! He will show his work and - in selected venues - a programme of contemporary Argentine cameraless films, featuring works by Ernesto Baca, Julio Fermepin, Federico Lanchares, Pablo Marin, Pablo Mazzolo, Manu Reyes, Leonardo Zito and Jeff Zorrilla.
