Opening gala: Film-concert Battleship Potemkin live soundtrack by Chris Jarrett

The opening gala tickets are already available: nothing less than Sergei Eisenstein’s restored classic film, Battleship Potemkin, with live accompaniment by the pianist and composer Chris Jarrett.
As every year, (S8) is opened looking backwards: that is, pointing to those film pioneers, those preceding sound cinema, whose work has helped build the language and the history of cinema. This year it is the turn of Eisenstein who, besides being one of the brightest Soviet directors, was one of the first to reflect and theorize about cinema. He is famous for his theory of film edition, one of the touchstones in building language and identity for the brand new art, which exploits the potential of the machine. Battleship Potemkin is his best-known work, a film that contains one of the most famous and powerful sequences in film history: the overwhelming one of Odessa steps. The film began as a commission to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, narrating one of the feats that led to the Bolshevik revolt. This is the uprising, in 1905, in which the crew of the battleship Potemkin rebelled against the tsarist army. A propaganda film that Eisenstein made a cinematic masterpiece, applying his innovative ideas in a laborious process.

It is also an event to see in La Coruna, in 35mm, the restored version of the film that replaces what was Eisenstein’s original vision.

Monday May 30th, 20.30h. Teatro Rosalía de Castro
You can purchase your tickets in advance at Teatro Rosalía de Castro: 902 044 226
Box office opening hours: Monday to Sunday from 12:00 h. to 14:00 h. and from 18:00 h. to 20:00 h. Payments in cash.
Central box office: Plaza de Orense. Monday to Sunday  (except holidays) fom 9.30h to 13h and from 16.30h to 19.30h. Payments in cash.
Internet purchase: TICKETEA

2016 (S8):
The New Impressionists

BROUILLARD – passage #14, Alexandre Larose

“Impressionist”: the source of this word was a derogatory term coined by an art critic to discredit the work of Monet and such. It is unlikely that the critic could imagine that this name would be associated to the discussion of one of the most revolutionary artistic currents of history, the one that left behind the imitation of life and the ways to try to capture -in its purity- light with a brush. “New Impressionists” is the name with which (S8) has christened this special edition this year. Emerging and veteran filmmakers will converge to experiment with light and film pictorial qualities, for whom this is essential. Probing the limits of sensory perception and subjectivity, this group of filmmakers signed some of the most visually overwhelming works in recent years. This is the case of Jacques Perconte, one of the most popular French artists today, who brings an exhibition, a live soundtrack performance and the international premiere of his latest film, Save my Heart from the World to (S8). Using digital video, and exploiting all the plastic possibilities called glitch (ie, the image disturbances caused by code handling), Perconte opens doors to impossible landscapes of colors and unusual shapes. Perconte, whose work has been seen in the most prestigious galleries, institutions and festivals in the world, has collaborated with artists such as Leos Carax (in Holy Motors), Jean-Benoît Dunckel (duo Air) and Jeff Mills.

Stephen Broomer is also visiting Spain for the first time. He is a young and yet already acclaimed Canadian filmmaker, curator and theoretician. Broomer, whose films have been seen at Views from the Avant-Garde (New York Film Festival), the Wavelengths section of Toronto Festival and Berlinale, will bring his 16mm works to Coruna. Those are films in which colors and textures evoke the work of the first impressionists, in a formal search whose intoxicating result also brings him close to other impressionists: the abstract.

The section devoted to Impressionism is completed with a selection of recent works by artists such as Jodie Mack, Pablo Mazzolo, John Price, Robert Todd, Charlotte Pryce, Alexandre Larose and Eva Kolcze, and a session dedicated to Germaine Dulac, a pioneer of film and part of the avant-garde stream of the 1920s called “French impressionists”, to which also belonged Jean Epstein, Louis Delluc and Abel Gance. Dulac’s work will be screened in film format, with the recent 35 mm restorations of Étude Cinématographique sur une Arabesque and Thèmes et Variations.

Artist in focus:
Xiana Gómez-Díaz

Coming soon.

While we wait for the seventh edition: the sixth went thus

It’s not long until the seventh edition of (S8): in less than a month it will be here, full of renewed splendor and beauty. Meanwhile, here’s a video summary of how (S8) 2015 was: from the presence of Ken Jacobs to all the protagonists of our special edition Brazil, our unforgettable opening with The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with live musical accompaniment by Eunice Martins, the energetic dose of Galician talent at Sinais section and much more. Look, remember and gather enthusiasm and strength for what is ahead.

2016 Around the Corner

We have just finished our 2015 edition and, as every year, we are already looking forward for next year’s. While we work hard to make it all happen again, we keep in mind the best moments lived in our65th edition, devoted to Brazil.

Here in our Flickr you could find the pictures of this edition.

In our Youtube channel, you can find our presentations broadcasted in streaming and our promo video.

In our Issuu account, you can read our catalogue and our journal.

Thank you all for making the (S8) possible. See you soon!