YOUR EYES ARE SPECTRAL MACHINES > LUIS MAĆIAS IN PERSON <
Iris Film Collective, in collaboration with ECUAD and Cineworks, are very excited to have Barcelona-based filmmaker Luis Maćias presenting his work in person for the very first time in Vancouver, at the Integrated Motion Studio, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Tuesday May 23 2023 at 7:30pm.
Your Eyes Are Spectral Machines investigates the concept of what Luis calls spectral cinema. Exploring the various components of the film spectrum—process and structure, photochemical transformation, optical/contact printing, and projection as event, Your Eyes Are Spectral Machines is about the exploration, manipulation and variation of an image and its absence. Be prepared for deep optical immersion and arresting materiality.
The Program
The eyes empty and the pupils burning of rage and desire 2 x 16mm projectors | 25 min | Silent | colour-b&w An absence of image becomes its own destruction, building an unreproduceable organic universe that slowly emerges from a deep connection between emulsion and projector. Without image. Without sound. Without description.
The Kiss 35mm ( screening digitally) | 9 min | Sound | b&w Based on the film THE KISS (T. Edison 1896) in its original 35mm format, this digital film project is based on a structural re-shooting and re-recording of the original film in all the existing formats: analog, electronic and digital, in an evolutive form. The film is a reiteration of the act of kissing. The emphasis on the kiss, repeated and multiplied, while deteriorated in its own progression. The history of the evolution of formats through a kiss, an intimate and aesthetic relationship between media and audiovisual formats.
Spectral Landscape 3 x 35mm slide projectors | 25 min | Sound Alfredo Costa Monteiro | colour-b&w An intermittent, subtle, violent performance using three modified slide projectors to explore the image of nature and how it is revealed to us. A Landscape. Without color and movement. Only a Landscape. “At that beautiful moment between reality and dreaming, an incorporeal animal emerges from the darkness and light. Dark, violent and self-assured, it shares its fears of nature’s despair. But don’t be afraid—it’s an animal just like you. Do you see it? Wake up and open your eyes”
Admission is free of charge, please arrive on time, no latecomers.
Bio Luis Macias (b.1976, Barcelona, Spain) Is an artist, filmmaker and image composer. His work deals with the formal and spectral properties of the moving image, through the exploration of the cinematographic device itself and the photochemical nature of the medium. Focused on experimental and procedural practices of analog image, his works in Super 8, 16mm, 35mm and / or video formats are composed for projection, performance or installation. His films and pieces of expanded cinema have been shown in prestigious film, art and music festivals as well as art centers, museums and alternative spaces around the world. Co-founder and an active member of Crater-Lab, an independent laboratory for analog cinema, he also teaches experimental cinema and the exploration of analog formats. http://luismacias.es