Xcèntric 2021
Ben Russell. «Trypps Number 7 (Badlands)» by Andrés Duque
December 2021 – January 2022
The cineaste Andrés Duque presents Trypps Number 7 (Badlands) by Ben Russell.
Matthias Müller and Christoph Girardet. «Screen» by Cloe Masotta
November 2021
The critic and lecturer in film and contemporary art, Cloe Masotta, presents Screen by Matthias Müller and Christoph Girardet.
Patrick Bokanowski. «La plage» by Mariona Borrull
October 2021
Film critic Mariona Borrull presents La plage by Patrick Bokanowski.
Stacey Steers. «Edge of Alchemy» by Mariana Freijomil
September 2021
Mariana Freijomil, film critic and professor, presents Edge of Alchemy by Stacey Steers.
The Sky of The Future
Lucía Salas
The internet is often the only way to access large chunks of a hidden history of film that is in danger of being forgotten.
Jorge Honik. «El inmortal» and «Passacaglia y fuga» by Pablo Marín
July-August 2021
Pablo Marín, film critic and cineaste, presents El inmortal and Passacaglia y fuga.
Laida Lertxundi. «Footnotes to a House of Love» by Carlos Balbuena
June 2021
Carlos Balbuena, director and film critic, presents Footnotes to a House of Love by Laida Lertxundi.
Peter Tscherkassky. "Coming Attractions" by Guillermo Triguero
May 2021
Guillermo Triguero, film critic and historian, presents Coming Attractions by Peter Tscherkassky, one of the fundamental names in found footage.
Jodie Mack. «Dusty Stacks of Mom» by Paula Arantzazu
April 2021
Paula Arantzazu, professor and film critic, presents Dusty Stacks of Mom: the Poster Project.
Teo Hernández. «Nuestra Señora de París» by Vanessa Agudo
March 2021
Vanessa Agudo, art historian, critic and film programmer, presents Nuestra Señora de París, one of Teo Hernández’s most important films.
Rose Lowder. «Bouquets 1-10» by Gloria Vilches
February 2021
Gloria Vilches, Xcèntric Coordinator, presents Bouquets 1-10, by Rose Lowder, one-minute compositions whose frames, filmed in the same area at different times, are interlaced so that each bouquet of flowers also becomes a bouquet of images. Bouquets 1-10, Rose Lowder, France, 1994-1995, 16 m...
Xcèntric. 20th Anniversary Programme — November - December 2021
On 4 November 2001 Xcèntric, the CCCB's cinema, held its first ever screening: a retrospective of the cult filmmaker Kenneth Anger, launching a regular programme of screenings dedicated to experimental and artists' films, an unprecedented event in the city of Barcelona. Exactly 20 years and thousands of films later, we're celebrating the anniversary of Xcèntric with a series of screenings, performances and talks to pay tribute to cinema as a collective experience, to the survival of photochemical film, and to the profession of the projectionist, as well as necessarily reflecting on the present and future of cinema in the digital era. ...
Xcèntric. Programme March - April 2021
Between March and April 2021 we will screen films by the following filmmakers: Jean-Claude Rousseau, Margot Dias, Ruy Guerra, Thomas Harlan, Arthur and Corinne Cantrill, Sophie Michael, Manuela de Laborde, Gautam Valluri, Brigid McCaffrey, Jodie Mack, Larry Clark, Vittorio de Seta, José Val del Omar, Michael & Kenyon, Peter Nestler, Harun Farocki, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Alexander Kluge, Stan Brakhage, Fernand Deligny. Check the full program here.
Xcèntric. Programme January - February 2021
Challenging the traditional canon of experimental film and openness to other marginalized voices will be some of the leading threads of the 2021 programme of Xcèntric, the cinema of the CCCB, highlighting films directed by women, made outside Europe and the United States, and pedagogical and ...