Venerdì 2 Ottobre h. 19.30 
AUR-ORA / via Stazione 42 / Ora/Auer
30'

Workshop Super8
sabato 3 e domenica 4 ottobre
AUR-ORA / via Stazione 42 / Ora/Auer

REELS & LIGHTS 
Luis Macías & Adriana Vila (Barcelona)

A tribute to the movie projector. 

The appearance of the cinematic apparatus in its simplest form, using intermitent light and shadows, silence and sound.

One 16mm projector. No film, 2 strobe lights, optical sound and light sensors. 30min (time variable). 

This is a project of Pre- expanded cinema using a 16mm film projector as a research object. 

The projector becomes the protagonist.

The perforations of a doble perforated black film are used as a source of intermittent
and constant repetitive optical sound. Also the vibration of the projector is used trough a sound sensor that is placed in it's interior. These two sources of sound emanating from the projector are fused finally into a sound mixer.

The performers play with the strobe lights in a synchronized choreography, creating
shadows, volumes, different scales, abstractions with the movement of the empty
reels on the projector. The use of a red and a blue filter on each strobe take the audience to a momentary illusion of perception of the projector shadows in three dimension. 

A performance which refers to pre-cinema, theater of shadows and the illusion of primitive mechanisms



Not recommended for people with epilepsy problems.









Previous screenings:

Cinemateca Nacional de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela. 2011
Artist Televisión Acces (ATA Site) San Francisco, USA 2012
Black Hole Cinemateque, Oakland, CA, USA, 2012
Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA, 2012

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Luis Macías

Luis Macias is an artist, filmmaker, image recycler and teacher specialized in Experimental cinema. His work in film format 8mm, super 8 and 16mm is conceived as projects on Expanded Cinema Film Performances. His artistic concerns focus on two points: the physical work on film and film recycling and re-invention of new relations between moving images. These proposals are designed both for projection in dark room as to performance or installation in the white cube. In parallel develops theoretical and practical workshops specialized in different variants of experimental film and Super 8, Found Footage, and films with out camera, in film schools art centers and museums
www.luismacias.es

Adriana Vila

Adriana Vila is a venezuelan filmmaker and visual anthropologist. Focused in the creation of expanded cinema experiences with multiple super8 and 16mm projectors, experimenting with found industrial, domestic-amateur footage, as well as new filmed material, plastic abstract intervention and hand processing. 
Works on ethnographic auto-critical ideas using concepts of identity, memory, absence and representation.
www.adrianavilaguevara.com



Luis Macías and Adriana Vila’s performances have been screened at Bienal de la imagen en Movimiento (Argentina), Crossroads Film Festival, Artist Television Acces (San Francisco), Millenium Film Center (New York), Echo Park (LA), ITAE and Ocho y Medio (Ecuador), Museum of Modern Art of Bahia (Brazil) Museum of Fine Arts and National Cinematheque (Venezuela), International Video Art Festival of Camaguey (Cuba), S8 Mostra de Cine Periférico (A Coruña), Europes Festival, Mostra Super 8, Loop Festival, Primavera Sound, Centro de Arte La Virreina, The Prop festival and Sonar Festival (Barcelona).