Pocket-Size Cinema in Spain: Experiments in Super 8

Visiting on a short west-coast tour, [S8] programmer (and filmmaker) Elena Duque appears in person to present a program of contemporary and historic films made in Super-8mm by Spanish filmmakers. As a light, intimate, cheap and flexible format, Super-8 has been a friendly tool to experimental cinema. In Spain, it was the "underground of the underground," a way of imagining new strange worlds during the dictatorship and in its aftermath, when creativity was not welcome. This program presents a loose and subjective genealogy of the use of this small format in Spain-featuring formal experimentation and a recurring theme of spirituality, these films transcend the traditions of diary and personal filmmaking, presenting the claustrophobic hallucinations, utopian humor and more.

SCREENING:

Sevilla Tenía Que Ser (1979) by Juan Sebastián Bollaín
A Mal Gam A (1976) by Iván Zulueta
Película Sudorosa (2009) by David Domingo
Bionte (2015) by Lucía Vilela
Trópico Desvaído (2016) by Valentina Alvarado
Una Película en Color (2019) by Bruno Delgado Ramo