Los Angeles Filmforum presents Your Eyes Are Spectral Machines – Live Projection Performance by Luis Macías Tuesday March 10, 2020, 8:00 pm At the Echo Park Film Center Los Angeles Filmforum is the city's longest-running organization screening experimental and avant-garde film and video art, documentaries, and experimental animation 2020 is our 45th year! www.lafilmforum.org Co-presented with L.A OLA Additional Support provided by Institut Ramon Llull for Catalan Language and Culture LA Premiere! In Person: Luis Macías! The Spanish artist/filmmaker Luis Macías kicks off a North American tour in Los Angeles, with three live projection performances involving 16mm, 35mm and slide projectors Macias is a cofounder of Crater Lab http://crater-lab.org/ , an independent film development laboratory in Barcelona He is an image recycler who specializes in experimental cinema His artistic concerns focus on the physical work on film, film recycling and re-invention of new relationships between moving images He previously had a screening at the Echo Park Film Center in 2012 “In his latest expanded cinema pieces, [Macías] develops the idea of spectral cinema, where the different processes of film spectrum feature in each creative space Photochemical manipulation in the laboratory of created and/or suitable images, editing on moviola, transformation and rephotography by means of an optical copier, and the projection as an event… are parts of filmic form which visually composes and interprets, and which organizes in closed structures while consciously leaving intervening gaps allowing it – and obligating it – to explore cinematic improvisation and the building of the piece during the actual screening.” – Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, https://www.cccb.org/en/activities/file/luis-macias-your-eyes-arespectral-machines/230378 Special Thanks to Dicky Bahto, Rocío Mesa Screening: "The eyes empty and the pupils burning of rage and desire" x 16mm projectors, Silent, color-b&w, 25 Without image Without sound Without description “Expanded cinema performance with two modified 16mm-projectors that reduce the essence of film and projection to the bare minimum: no image, sound or narrative From frame to frame, the filmmaker balances on the edge in an improvisation comprised of light, dark and focus, with the film emulsion at a constant boiling point.” – International Film Festival Rotterdam "The Kiss" 35mm (screening in video HD), sound, b/w, Based on the film THE KISS (T Edison 1896) in its original 35mm format, this video-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 it’s own progress The history of the evolution of formats through a kiss An intimate and aesthetic relationship between media and audiovisual formats "Spectral Landscape" x 35mm slide projectors, silent, color-b&w, 25 Sound by Alfredo Costa Monteiro Expanded Cinema performance // 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 Did you see it? Wake up and open your eyes” Luis Macías is an artist, filmmaker and image recycler who specializes in experimental cinema He studied at Centro de Estudios Cinematográficos de Cataluña, CECC and graduated in Art History from Murcia University, Spain His artistic concerns focus on these points: the physical work on film, film recycling and re-invention of new relationships between moving images His work has been exhibited at various museums He also teaches experimental cinema at CECC Selected Filmography(selection) INTERACCION: Reality Film (2005, short), START/THE END (2008, instal), EX(…) (2009, short), Vete de Mi (2010, short), CINE#a#MA#teur (2012, short), YOU TO BE Nº1 I am the Dream (2013, short), SPECTRAL SINTHESYS (2014, instal), THE KISS (2015, short), 25 CINES/seg (2017, short), the eyes empty and the pupils burning with rage and desire (2018, short) More info: http://luismacias.es -Los Angeles Filmforum screenings are supported by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture and the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, the Wilhelm Family Foundation We also depend on our members, ticket buyers, and individual donors Coming Soon to Los Angeles Filmforum: Mar 12 - Thurs – Pattern in Contemporary Film, featuring Jodie Mack, Charles Woodman, and more, at MOCA Mar 15 - Disarm the Right to Violence!: Recent Mexican Experimental Short Films, at the Spielberg Theatre Mar 21 - Co-presenting Vitreous Chamber: Malic Amalya & Nathan Hill, with Dirty Looks, at the Echo Park Film Center April – Cecelia Condit, at the UCLA Film & Television Archive April 18 – Co-presenting The Ancient Law, silent film with live music, at Temple Israel of Hollywood Memberships available, $75 single, $125 dual, or $40 single student Contact us at lafilmforum@yahoo.com Find us online at http://lafilmforum.org Become a fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @LosAngFilmforum!