A film collective that pushes the boundaries of cinema: Los Ingrávidos now in Istanbul and Ankara with a special Othon selection!
Born in Mexico, Los Ingrávidos deconstructs and reconstructs the audiovisual language of commercial cinema to create a political, poetic, and corporeal form of filmmaking. Their works unfold as powerful visual poems ranging from scenes of protest to nature, from the rhythm of labor to mythological resonances.
Barking Community Cinema presents Afterimage, Afterlife; a selection of Mexican experimental short films that reflect on the form of absence in the face of violent histories. Moving between fragments and spectres, the works in this programme explore our camera-mediated understanding of turbulent times, turning to images as sites of both testimony and artifice. Reassembled archives, scratched surfaces and unsettling collisions summon lingering ghosts, whose traces resist systemic erasure and undermine official narratives. Gestures commemorating loss become acts of protest, inviting a tactile encounter with histories whose meanings have been obscured by conflict.
Latitudes es un ciclo de cine experimental que surge como una iniciativa autogestiva y sin fines de lucro, dedicado a visibilizar el trabajo de colectivos independientes que desarrollan prácticas experimentales en América Latina.
A través de tres sesiones temáticas y una performance final de cine expandido, el programa ofrece un recorrido por la producción experimental contemporánea, enfatizando el trabajo con materialidad fílmica y formatos analógicos.
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos: An Anthology explores the radical practice of one of today's most prolific and politically charged film collectives. Emerging in 2012, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos challenges cinematic conventions through a decolonial lens, making films that dissolve the boundaries between ritual and resistance, myth and history, the personal and the collective.
"En la naturaleza, cada flor, cada pétalo aislado, es capaz de maravillarnos. No es extraño que expresemos el placer que nos produce su mero color. Los espíritus de la naturaleza nos hablan a través de los colores singulares, así como los espíritus de los cielos nos hablan a través del sonido de los diversos instrumentos musicales. Apenas podemos expresar lo mucho que nos conmueve y nos afecta cada uno de los colores, pues los colores mismos nos hablan con dulce tono.” W. Wackenroder, “Die Farben”.
Join us on February 24, 2024, at 3 pm ET for an exclusive digital screening of Eco-Art Experimental Films and Videos at Deering Estate Visitor Center Auditorium. Admission is free with Eventbrite registration. Please save the date for these diverse and challenging artist-crafted films and videos that intertwine the concern for nature and our relation to it expressed within the possibilities of experimental cinema.
This Radiant World: Recent and Retrospective Experimental Films is a four-program series of exceptional experimental films from the last few years, complemented by several newly restored and preserved retrospective works. Many of the films comment directly or indirectly on the anxieties and uncertainty of the past two years; others serve as joyful and playful counterpoints. Together, they demonstrate the continuing richness of experimental cinema, the history of which is exemplified by this selection of lesser-known works that are overdue for rediscovery and reappraisal.
Repeated Apparitions is a programme of screenings, performances and events that muse over repetitive cycles of oppression and their social invisibility and normalisation. Through a shared exploration of radical images, wild experimental sounds and evocative texts, the programme looks at how repetition can be used to create processes of reparation and renewal, disrupt the past and imagine new realities.
