Your Eyes Are Spectral Machines

Fri March 14th
doors: 7:00 pm
films: 7:30 pm

$5 – $15 suggested donation
FREE POPCORN

No Name Cinema
2013 Pinon Street
Santa Fe, NM 87505
nonamecinema.org

Your Eyes Are Spectral Machines (16mm & 35mm multi-projector film performance by visiting artist, Luis Macias, from Barcelona Spain)

A selection of films in which Luis Macias investigates the concept of what he calls spectral cinema. Exploring each of the different components of the film spectrum: the process and structure as a challenge, the photochemical transformation in the laboratory of created and/or appropriate images, editing/manipulation and re-photography through the optical/contact printer, and the projection as an event. The properties of the image and its forms and the modification/alteration of the mechanical structure of the projector are combined in new proposals for the exercise of a human eye that explores the images of nature and/or how it is revealed to us. These are parts of a filmic form organized in closed structures allowing intermediate spaces that force/activate improvisation.

filmmaker in attendance from Barcelona, Spain ~ post-screening Q&A

Luis Macias is an artist, filmmaker & image composer. His work deals with the formal & spectral properties of the moving image, through the exploration of the cinematographic device itself & the photochemical nature of the medium. Focused on experimental & procedural practices of analog image, his works in Super-8mm, 16mm, 35mm & video are composed for projection performance. His films and pieces of expanded cinema have been shown in prestigious film, art and music festivals as well as art centers, museums & alternative spaces around the world. Macias is a co-founder of Crater-Lab, an independent laboratory for analog cinema, and alternates his art work with specialized teaching in experimental cinema and the exploration of analog formats.