Luis Macías

Luis MACÍAS is an artist, filmmaker and moving-image composer who specialises 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 prestigious film, art and music festivals as well as art centres, museums and alternative spaces around the world. He also teaches experimental cinema at CECC. Macías is co-founder and active member of CRATER-Lab, an independent artist-run-film Lab for analogue cinema.
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), El océano analogo/The Analog Ocean (2022)
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Luis Macías at IFFR
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the eyes empty and the pupils burning with rage and desire
Minimalist expanded cinema performance with two modified 16mm projectors. An exploration of film emulsion without image, sound or narrative.
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Spectral Landscape
Luis Macías’ expanded cinema performance using four slide projectors, an external shutter and colour gels stages the emergence of an a