“Vive le cinéma!” goes the call from Tabakalera, International Centre of Contemporary Culture, at this year’s San Sebastián International Film Festival (Ssiff).
The Centre’s exhibition hall plays host to four cinematographic installations made by leading global filmmakers, a project which sees them transform their usual cinema-based practice into a more expansive and experimental gallery space.
The exhibition at Tabakalera marks a continuation of the series which began at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam last year in collaboration with the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Two works from the 2021 exhibition by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese and Jia Zhang-ke will be on display again in San Sebastián, alongside two new productions from Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili (“Beginning”) and Spanish director Isaki Lacuesta.
“Our main mission is to promote artistic production and to act as a platform to connect a wide audience to the arts of our time,” says Tabakalera’s Cultural Director Clara Montero.
The Centre’s exhibition hall plays host to four cinematographic installations made by leading global filmmakers, a project which sees them transform their usual cinema-based practice into a more expansive and experimental gallery space.
The exhibition at Tabakalera marks a continuation of the series which began at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam last year in collaboration with the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Two works from the 2021 exhibition by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese and Jia Zhang-ke will be on display again in San Sebastián, alongside two new productions from Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili (“Beginning”) and Spanish director Isaki Lacuesta.
“Our main mission is to promote artistic production and to act as a platform to connect a wide audience to the arts of our time,” says Tabakalera’s Cultural Director Clara Montero.
- 9/20/2022
- by Caitlin Quinlan
- Variety Film + TV
Standing tall by the Urumea river, the imposing Tabakalera International Contemporary Cultural Center dominates the skyline of San Sebastian. It is home to the Spanish-speaking world’s most prominent film festival, now celebrating its 69th year, and to other key cultural institutions, including the post-graduate film school Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola (Eqze) and the Filmoteca Vasca (Basque Film Archives). Built in 1913, the former tobacco factory is one of many that were raised across the country when Spain monopolized its domestic tobacco trade. For 90 years, it was a state-owned factory where more than a thousand people toiled, most of them women.
Since the refurbished Tabakalera opened in 2015, it has become a cultural hub for the Basque region, with an increasingly international profile as its festival and the film school, founded in 2017, attract a host of filmmakers, film students and professionals from around the world. Since Sept. 13, 30 women and 15 men from more...
Since the refurbished Tabakalera opened in 2015, it has become a cultural hub for the Basque region, with an increasingly international profile as its festival and the film school, founded in 2017, attract a host of filmmakers, film students and professionals from around the world. Since Sept. 13, 30 women and 15 men from more...
- 9/20/2021
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
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