Xcèntric 2017
The CCCB's cinema
Jorge Tur Moltó introduces "Agitprop. Art as a weapon of combat in the cinema of Santiago Álvarez and Travis Wilkerson"
Agitprop film combines agitation and propaganda. In the 1930s, documentaries of this type aimed to influence public opinion. Santiago Álvarez and, later, Travis Wilkerson remained faithful to this spirit of provocation for transforming reality.
Francisco Algarín introduces "Acts without words, correspondence without a sender. From Morgan Fisher and Thom Andersen to Laida Lertxundi"
This session proposes a series of conceptual correspondences between the most recent films of LA-based filmmaker Laida Lertxundi and some of the early works of two of her main references, Morgan Fisher and Thom Andersen.
Xcèntric. Programme March - April 2017
José Rodríguez Soltero, Maria Klonaris & Katerina Thomadaki, Kerry Laitala, Bruce Conner, Travis Wilkerson, Laida Lertxundi, Thom Andersen, Morgan Fisher, Ju Anqi, Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel, Bruce Weber, Eduardo Williams are some of the filmmakers featured in our programme March - April 2017 of Xcèntric.
Xcèntric. Programme January - February 2017
Val del Omar, Manon de Boer, Patrick Bokanowski, Chick Strand, Teo Hernández, Anne Rees-Mogg, Robert Beavers, Fred Halsted, Kazuo Hara, Barbara Rubin, Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, James Herbert, Stan Brakhage are the filmmakers featured in the 2017 Xcèntric ...