04.12.25, 20:30, Filming the Gaps, Spaanse Filmcollectieven en Queer Visibility

At the end of the Franco regime, a series of collectives emerged in Spain that questioned the traditional filmmaking process. In search of a way to make films independently, these politically engaged collectives used cinema as a means for social change. This tradition of solidarity and collective creation lives on today in new generations of filmmakers. The short film programme Filming the gaps takes you on a journey through a selection of radical and idiosyncratic works on sexual diversity throughout the decades. Film as a means of making a silenced struggle visible and recognising other models, roles and bodies.

The evening starts with three works by the artist duo Cabello/Carceller (Helena Cabello and Ana Carceller). Since the 1990s, the duo has found a way to subtly but sharply undermine existing ideas. Their films are characterised by simplicity of form, a direct approach and the clever use of humour and irony. As part of the programme, we will show Buns (1996, 4'), A Kiss (1996, 4') and Instructions for Use (2004, 6'), some of their first video works. These are complemented by two recent works by new Spanish collectives: the duo Quiela Nuc and Andrea Beade from the collective nucbeade with A Wild Dedication (2019, 10'), and the trio Isa Luengo, Sofía Esteve and Marina Freixe Roca with The Gaps (2024, 19'). Using archive material, collage and personal testimonies, both groups explore the institutional repression experienced by previous generations.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Sofía Esteve and Isa Luengo.