[ MÁRGENES ]
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SPANISH EXPERIMENTAL FILM PROGRAMME
PORTUGUESE EXPERIMENTAL FILM PROGRAMME
MORE OR LESS ANNIHILATED BY SACCADIC ENCHAINMENT BY THE SEA
IRISH EXPERIMENTAL FILM PROGRAMME
Thursday 28 May – 5pm
La Casa Encendida
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DECENTERED: OTHER HISTORIES OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM
Chair: Gloria Vilches
Participants: Maximilian Le Cain, Manuel Asín and Nuno Rodrigues.
The selection of Portuguese, Spanish and Irish moving-image works presented in Márgenes 09 draws a critical cartography opposed to that of the experimental film "canon" which Jonas Mekas, somehow, represents. Since these films are considered as being outside the focus of the dominating discourse around experimental cinema, they occupy an uncharted territory. From such invisible territories, precisely, the concept 'experimiental film', which transformed into a representation of itself looses finally its strength and radicality, is put into question and redefined. In resisting the surrendering of canonical narratives, the works created from the mentioned invisible territories, allow the writing or documenting of decentered histories of experimental cinema; to pave paths yet to be explored.
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Maximilian Le Cain (Cork,1978) has made twenty short and medium-length videos over the past decade. He is also a film critic whose writings have appeared in a broad range of international film journals, most notably Senses of Cinema, and several books. He is editor of Cork Film Centre's online experimental film magazine Experimental Conversations. He is based in Cork City, Ireland.
Gloria Vilches (Valencia, 1978) Ph.D. in Audiovisual Communication (Universisity of Valencia), has developed her research in New York Universiy, Berlin University, and the University of Chicago. She is a regular contributor to a diversity of magazines focused in history and film theory, and of Archivos de la Filmoteca. Vilches also coordinates a Spanish experimental film programme at the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona and is doing research around found footage practices in Spanish contemporary visual art.
Manuel Asín (Zaragoza, 1978) focuses his writing in cinema. Some of his works have been published in El Viejo Topo, Blogs&Docs, Miradas de cine, Cahiers du cinéma España, and Archivos de la Filmoteca. He has made several shorts and a feature film, and has recently finished a retrospective work about Jean-Claude Rousseau for Zinebi.
