Ernie Gehr: As If

May 12, 2018

“In representational films sometimes the image affirms its own presence as image, graphic entity, but most often it serves as vehicle to a photo-recorded event. Traditional and established avant garde film teaches film to be an image, a representing. But film is a real thing and as a real thing it is not imitation. It does not reflect on life, it embodies the life of the mind. It is not a vehicle for ideas or portrayals of emotion outside of its own existence as emoted idea. Film is a variable intensity of light, an internal balance of time, a movement within a given space”. (Ernie Gehr, January 1971)

Cinema on paper

May 12, 2018

Just as a musician prepares the score of a melody and then plays it, there are filmmakers who have devised their own means of notation to make their films: from preparatory diagrams or diagrams that serve as tools for filming, to annotations made in situ or expression graphs that serve to analyze and break down what is filmed. This exhibition brings together a series of movies thought on paper and thought from an idea of ​​precise structure, which we will know through their scores.

Pablo Mazzolo: The Forces of Nature

May 11, 2018

Optics, mechanics, chemistry, light waves. A set of scientific variables, which combined in the right way are transformed into an ineffable force that floods senses. Reality crosses the threshold of sleep, and cinema becomes an enveloping sensory experience.

Desbordamientos: Ojoboca

May 11, 2018

Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy are Ojoboca, a couple of filmmakers who have lived and worked in Berlin under this name since 2010. The sharpness and the sense of humor crown this interminable game, of which we will be participants in this double philo-spiritist program that will take us through universes and unusual sensations. Welcome to the unknown dimension of Ojoboca.

Canyon Cinema 50: California Dreaming

May 6, 2018

Celebrating 50 years as a one of the world’s preeminent distributors of artist-made film, Canyon Cinema is deeply rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area’s independent and experimental filmmaking and exhibition community. This program pays homage to this legacy by showcasing a selection of radical and visionary works, made over half a decade, capturing some of the most compelling (and cinematic) qualities of California – the nature, the landscape and the light.