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The rules of playing games

The CCCB's cinema

Playing games is an inextricable part in the vital development of people. As Johan Huizinga pointed out in Homo Ludens (1938), the act of playing is intrinsic to the unfolding of cultural practices. Experimental film combines rules, regulations, instructions and constraints with metalinguistic proposals that sound out logics ranging from convivial to metaphysical. This session features unusual games denoting that the entertainment produced is recreated with cinematic tools.

Xcèntric. Programme January - February 2020

Érik Bullot, Su Friedrich, Storm de Hirsch, Edward Owens, Amy Halpern, Masao Adachi, Igor and Gleb Aleinikov, Yevgeny Yufit, John Smith, Karpo Godina, Noémia Delgado or Juan Bufill are some of the filmmakers featured in our programme January- February 2020 of Xcèntric. 

Xcèntric. Programme January - February 2019

Jan Švankmajer, Rudy Burckhardt, Margarita Cordeiro and António Reis, Anne Charlotte Robertson, Carolee Schneemann, Stan Brakhage, Christine Noll Brinckmann, David Brooks and Arthur and Corinne Cantrill are some of the filmmakers featured in our programme January- February 2019 of Xcèntric.