Over a period of 35 years, filmmaker Lynne Sachs shot 8 and 16mm film, videotape and digital images of her father, Ira Sachs Sr., a bon vivant, seductive, extravagant and pioneering businessman. Film About a Father Who is her attempt to understand the web that connects a child to her parent and her siblings. With […]
Joana Gomila has shaken up the world of traditional music with a style as personal as it is daring. In her new work Paradís, Gomila starts from a new format in a duo with Laia Vallès. With an expansive and transgressive sound (keyboards, synthesizers, samplers), they deepen into the spirit of research and experimentation that […]
Lynne Sachs will explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences. Using examples from the essay films, experimental documentaries, and performances she has produced over the last three decades, she will guide her workshop participants on a journey investigating the connection between the body, the camera, and the materiality of film itself. […]
Who is filming? Why is it being filmed? To whom is it being explained? Why is it being explained? The style or the right language can be a disciplined research from thought or a discovery that the film itself delivers us. Is it the author who tells the film how it has to be told […]
In the philosophical proposal that Esquirol has been developing, the concept of poetics occupies a very special place, which is not only linked to the arts but to everything that contributes to generating and creating justice, beauty and warmth. This exhibition will explain in what sense the escalation of the human and the world are […]
The session will address some of the most painful entanglements of filmmaking. Doubts about form and tone, loneliness and emptiness during the process, and the intimacy of what is exposed in the film we are making will be some of the questions that three of the filmmakers participating in this edition of MajorDocs will discuss. […]
Herbaria is a film about preservation work of two symbiotic universes, the botanical and film, and everything they share: the delicacy of their manual art, the resistance of their method against the passage of time, the power of the image over the power of oblivion. The future of humanity rests on these people who try […]
Memory boxes or multimedia files stored on my external hard disk was the trigger for a trilogy about my memory through the digitised images of my own video tapes (renouncing the analogue) and the assumption of a non-physical, nostalgic and ghostly material. From this experience emerged my three most personal films, because they are self-referential: […]
A talk on domestic cinema, reflecting on the creative value of the home film archive, the re-signification of memory and the past, the role of film libraries and film archives, the challenges and opportunities that arise in this cinema of memory and the place of home cinema. This session will feature Pablo Gómez Sala, founder […]
Marko spends time in the abandoned apartment of his childhood in Belgrade. Traces of the past are being drawn and memories, both idyllic and traumatic, are combined. The family VHS archive shows his universe during 1998 and 1999: gatherings, pets, videogames, and moments of uncertainty reveal a common life embraced by a historical event. With […]
The talk will delve into the specific characteristics of home movies and amateur films, as well as the different methods of recontextualizing them in new artistic works that bring a personal and original point of view of this film heritage. We will address the crucial ethical and aesthetic questions raised by the reuse of this […]
Perhaps a thriller, perhaps a tale of apprenticeship, perhaps an ironic evocation of a strange summer and its aftermath, Aftersun is a mysterious and unclassifiable film, a proposal that dynamites the conventional language of cinema to enter unknown territories. And best of all, it still provides unlimited pleasure and fun. With the presence of the […]
