Video-recap (S8) 2014: to see how it was, to crave what it will be

There is no better vitamin to face a new edition of the (S8) than remembering all that happened here last year. The Japan Special Edition brought to A Coruña a whole seismic movement through the work of Takahiko Iimura, Daïchi Saïto, Teruo Koike, the [+] Collective: Takashi Makino, Rei Hayama and Shinkan Tamaki and a retrospective of the main works of the historic Japanese avant garde. The opening night, with the katsuben benshi in the screening of Hirokishi The Rat, was a teaser of all that was about to occur. As the complete program Lost & Found, that joined Galicia and Japan through a project that included an exhibition, the creation of new works, live performances (as the one presented by Zemos98, European Souvenirs), and a symposium on domestic archives. But that was not all that was in store: the color and the energy of Jodie Mack inundated A Coruña, the invited festival, Media City, brought from Canada a breathtaking program of films, and our Overflowing nights where filled with the work of Makino, and the unique experiences lived with Esperanza Collado and Crater Collective. The locals where no less: Eloy Domínguez Serén exposed his personal view on life and cinema, we were able to see the las film by the great Xurxo Chirro, and Sinais en Curto offered a brief panorama of the quality of the Galician cinema. Manolo Gonzalez showed us his remarkable didactic work with the cinema of the “digital natives”.  And, following this line of the passion for cinema of the new generations, Mini (S8) put together an unforgettable film performance created by children. And, last but not least, members of the most relevant Artist Run Labs met in A Coruña: the French L’Abominable, Labor Berlin, the Filmwerkplaast from Rotterdam, Crater Lab from Barcelona and Double Negative, from Montreal.

All this and more things impossible to express with words, in our video-recap. The countdown has started!