Salts and grounds /
Salts and grounds /
Saturday, 13 May, 7 pm
Programme of Pan-American Cinema I:
Living Scents
This programme operates as an attempt at conjuring the primordial grounds where subsurface vapours emerge, where the deep speaks in riddles of volcanic fumes. Orbiting around the core of that light can lead to blissful blindness, and a cinema of blindness is also the cinema of the labyrinth and the cinema of ruin. The cinema of the oculus begins in the black hole, a living manifestation of our thoughts in a tunnel of light; sensitive, free, indecisive and collective. The remembrance, a ruin conjured, the beginning of the labyrinth. Metempsychosis of prenatal reverie: the source of an inner cosmos. It all ends where it all started, a primordial ruin of epic proportions. Then cinema of the phoenix, from dust to glorious ocean.
Friday, 12 May, 9 pm
Please an Abyss
Programme of Pan-American Cinema Il:
In these short works, we will find a collage of potentials, of activated sharpened shards made manifest in radical gestures, where alternate screens become intertwined with the subconscious meanderings of our days. The presented works both unveil and counteract the miasmatic profusions of power structures, they point new directions by designing circumventions, lotions, and poisons, while sharpening bayonets, and calling for new worlds that reflect on that past, feedback loops in communion with futures to come. Calling out the vampiric demiurge, designing portals, and inserting bombs into the bowels of the hydra. There is a place beyond thought; a place where intuition is scrambled. One eye in focus within the dense smoke. These are dissident works, they apply living pulses in spines and spirals, slicing open an ultimate howling.
Jean-Jacques Martinod is an Ecuadorian filmmaker, radio DJ & media artist. Inhabiting living locales as deterritorialized landscapes, his practice consistently considers the interrelations inherent in fluctuating psychic geographies and expanded human noesis. His works endeavor to interrogate sensory cognition in relation to the natural world, potential planes and parapoetic territories, by interlacing ethnofiction with artisanal experimental film techniques.
His work has earned awards and screened in museums, galleries, film festivals and independent artist-led spaces and co-ops, including The Museum of the Moving Image, Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador, Cinemateca do MAM Rio de Janeiro, Cinemateca de Bogotá, Centre PHI Montreal, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Nomadica at LABA, Sheffield Doc/Fest, FIDMarseille, Mar del Plata, DocumentaMadrid, European Media Arts Festival, 25FPS, Images Festival, Frontera Sur, Camden International Film Festival, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Fracto Experimental Film Encounter, Experiments in Cinema, Encuentros Cinematográficos Cámara Lúcida, among many others. (Photo: personal archive)