10TH ANNIVERSARY: 89. SESSION + CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – COORDINATOR FOR ILLEGAL_CINEMA

Thursday, 19 November 2020, 18:00. Illegal_Cinema, Session 89. Special session proposed by the six coordinators of Illegal_Cinema.

We would like to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Bulegoa z/b with a double programme dedicated to Illegal_Cinema, in collaboration with ZINEBI: a special session of Cine_ilegal, No. 89, at Bulegoa at z/b, proposed by all the coordinators, past and present, of the sessions in Bilbao; and secondly, a screening at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum of Yugoslavia. How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body (2013) by Marta Popivoda, the initiator of Illegal_Cinema. This will be followed by a conversation with Isabel de Naverán.

PROGRAMME

Sunday 15 November 2020, 19:00
Yugoslavia. How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body (2013)
Screening and conversation with Marta Popivoda
Venue: Auditorium, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Ticket: 3,50€

Monday 16 November 2020, 17:00
Yugoslavia. How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body (2013)
Venue: Auditorium, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
Ticket: 3,50€

Thursday, 19 November 2020, 18:00
Illegal_Cinema, Session 89
Special session proposed by the six coordinators of Illegal_Cinema
Venue: Bulegoa z/b
Limited capacity
To take part in the session, contact bulegoa@bulegoa.org

 

ABOUT ILLEGAL_CINEMA

Soon after the opening of our first office in December 2010, we invited Marta Popivoda and Ana Vujanović to speak about Walking Theory–TkH [Teorija koja Hoda], an independent, extra-academic platform based in Belgrade and made up of theoreticians and artists working with performance, theatre, visual arts and film. The platform was set up in 2000 following the wars in what was then Yugoslavia, and we saw affinities between TkH and what we were hoping to do at Bulegoa z/b, which was to build bridges between the practice of art and theoretical reflection.

On their first visit to Bulegoa z/b, Popivoda presented Illegal_Cinema, a programme set up by her in Belgrad in 2007, which since then has travelled to other cities; Zagreb and Istanbul held special editions of the event in 2008–2009, and regular screenings have been held at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris since 2010. In December that year sessions began in Bilbao, which is the only city where they still run.

Over the ten years of our existence, Cine_Ilegal has made its contribution to how we work here. But what is it? In the words of the coordinators of our sessions:

“Cine_Ilegal works simply. Someone proposes a film. This can be any kind of audiovisual document except for the person’s own work (…). We get together. There’s a presentation and then we watch what they have proposed as we should. At the end of the screening, we have enthusiastic conversations about it.” (Pablo Marte, September 2018 – now).

“It’s an open, (self-)educational project for exchanging and contextualising something whose nature we are unsure of: illegal cinema.” (Jorge Núñez, March 2011 – February 2012).

“It’s a framework or situation where we discuss the audiovisual, its forms, its texts; and the relationship between text and context, and how aesthetics becomes ethics and vice versa.” (Cristian Villavicencio, March 2012 – June 2013).

“It’s a medium that allows a varied group of people to get together by the light of the projector to give the term itself a meaning. Cine_ilegal is always circumstantial.” (Leire San Martín, July 2013 – December 2014)

“We see Cine_ilegal sessions as a way of fostering another kind of production of knowledge and discourse among people who aren’t necessarily specialists.” (Marion Cruza Le Bihan, February 2015 – September 2016).

“Cine_ilegal is not curated or programmed. The coordinator receives and accompanies the proposals towards each session, before and during its progression.” Ainara Elgoibar, October 2016 – January 2018).

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – COORDINATOR FOR ILLEGAL_CINEMA

Dates: between January 15 and February 15 2021.

Illegal_Cinema is a living space – but how do we carry on doing it and thinking about it right now? How do we create the conditions for a group of people to share the experience of watching a film together?

In January 2021, Bulegoa z/b open our application process for the position of Illegal_Cinema coordinator. Programme coordination will begin in March 2021 and end in October 2022 to be handed over to a new applicant.

Tasks include accompanying the person proposing the film in conceiving and organising the session and the discussion following the screening. Each session is offered to the audience as a collective screening event. Illegal_Cinema focuses on the here and how of the screening, its artistic potential, and on how to build a shared experience with the audience.

This is our second open call for a coordinator for Illegal_Cinema. So far, each of the coordinators, who have all been artists, have contributed their particular style and manner of understanding film, illegality and collective experience through their own specific practice. The programme has been coordinated by Jorge Núñez, Cristian Villavicencio, Leire San Martín, Marion Cruza Le Bihan, Ainara Elgoibar and Pablo Marte, in chronological order.

Proposals will be selected by a jury comprised of Pablo Marte, who has coordinated our sessions from September 2018 to November 2020, and Irantzu Sanzo, artist and participant in Illegal_Cinema.

ABOUT ILLEGAL_CINEMA

Bulegoa z/b has been hosting Illegal_Cinema since December 2010, soon after the opening of our space. 89 sessions have been held to date, and Bilbao is the only city where the programme continues to run. Illegal_Cinema was conceived in Belgrade in 2007 by Marta Popivoda, a member of TkH (Walking Theory) and has also been run at other venues in Zagreb, Istanbul, Paris and Berlin and other cities.

Illegal_Cinema works simply. Somebody proposes a screening at Bulegoa z/b and commits to encouraging the discussion that will lead from the film with the programme coordinator.

Over the ten years of our existence, Illegal_Cinema has made its contribution to how we work here. But what is it? In the words of the coordinators of our sessions:

“Cine_Ilegal works simply. Someone proposes a film. This can be any kind of audiovisual document except for the person’s own work (…). We get together. There’s a presentation and then we watch what they have proposed as we should. At the end of the screening, we have enthusiastic conversations about it.” [Pablo Marte, Illegal_Cinema coordinator for Bulegoa z/b, September 2018 – November 2020]

“At Illegal_Cinema, we watch films and talk about them. (…) Everyone is invited to take part and learn together.”
[Ainara Elgoibar, Illegal_Cinema coordinator for Bulegoa z/b, October 2016-January 2018]

“Illegal_Cinema is an open, (self-)educational project for exchanging and contextualising something undefined: illegal cinema.”
[Jorge Núñez, Illegal_Cinema coordinator for Bulegoa z/b, March 2011-February 2012]

“Illegal_Cinema is a framework/situation where we talk about the audiovisual and its forms and texts. (…) We are interested in the relationship between text and context, and how aesthetics becomes ethics.”
[Cristian Villavicencio, Illegal_Cinema coordinator for Bulegoa z/b, March 2012-June 2013]

“Illegal_Cinema is a way of thinking, of making mistakes and thinking again about what we consider to be illegal in the context of film. Illegal_Cinema is a medium which allows a varied group of people to come together under the light of the projector and give the term itself a meaning. Illegal_Cinema is always circumstantial.”
[Leire San Martín, Illegal_Cinema coordinator for Bulegoa z/b, July 2013-December 2014]

“Illegal_Cinema is run in an office at street level in the Solokoetxe district in Bilbao. We understand the sessions (…) to be a way of furthering other kinds of production of knowledge and discourse between people who aren’t necessarily film specialists. (…) Illegal_Cinema changes, grows and follows a different direction in each proposed session.”
[Marion Cruza Le Bihan, Illegal_Cinema coordinator for Bulegoa z/b, 2015-September 2016]

CONDITIONS

1. DESCRIPTION

– 10-12 sessions of Illegal_Cinema will be run  from March 2021 to October 2022.
– The coordinator’s tasks are to accompany the person who proposes the film in conceiving and organising the session, and in encouraging the discussion following the screening.
– Screening proposals have two sole conditions: the proponents of the session will not show work of their own, and will commit to encouraging discussion with the audience.

2. DATES

– Applications will be received between January 15 and February 15 2021.
– The jury’s decision will be announced on 1 March 2021.

3. APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

– Short letter of motivation and coordination proposal (PDF, 1 page maximum).
– CV.
– Contact details (email, telephone number).
– All information to be submitted online via the application form at www.bulegoa.org
– All documents must be submitted as a single PDF file titled NAME_SURNAME_CINE_ILEGAL.PDF

4. JURY

Proposals will be selected by a jury whose members are Pablo Marte and Irantzu Sanzo.

5. FEES

1800 € (before tax).

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