Screening of Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939, 01:39) y Red River (Howard Hawks, 1948, 02:13). Session proposed by Aizpea de Atxa y Akane Saraiva, the new coordinators of Illegal_Cinema. I know I’ll be typing really slowly, erasing long before I start writing, because I think it’s hard to write before I know…(Read More)

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…(Read More)

Sunday 15 November 2020, 19:00: Yugoslavia. How Ideology Moved Our Collective Body (2013). Screening and conversation with Marta Popivoda at Bilbao Fine Arts Museum. 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…(Read More)

TRACES Screening of a video compilation proposed by Tripak (aprox 90′). Tripak make theatre and are inviting you to take part in this session of Illegal_Cinema. We’d like to share material we’ve been gathering for the past few years. Things made by other people that envelop and complete our own pieces Aitaren larrua…(Read More)

Screening of La Perruque (Karim Boukhari, 2015, 19’) and 475 (Nadir Bouhmouch, 2013, 63’). Proposed by Rachid Farhan and Zahrat Essawssane Bourhil and followed by discussion. We chose the film 475 for this session because it is altogether illegal cinema: it was made clandestinely, with no authorization, in what its maker Nadir Bouhmouch calls “an…(Read More)

“Under a juniper-tree the bones sang, scattered and shining We are glad to be scattered, we did little good to each other, Under a tree in the cool of day, with the blessing of sand, Forgetting themselves and each other, united In the quiet of the desert. (…)” Ash Wednesday by T. S. Eliot Screening…(Read More)

Screening of The Girls of Kamare (René Viénet, 1974), proposed by Yen Noh and Sven Lütticken and followed by discussion. René Viénet’s film The Girls of Kamare is largely based on the Japanese film Terrifying Girls’ High School: Lynch Law Classroom. A former member of the Situationist International and Sinologist, Vi…(Read More)

Dark Matter Cinema Tarot. A Nocturnal Committee in Bilbao. Session proposed by Leire Vergara and Pablo Marte. In conceiving the DMC Tarot, Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson have replaced the Major and Minor Arcana with a selection of still images drawn from cinematic memory. No longer tied to the symbolism of the classical tarot, the…(Read More)

Screening of Working Slowly (Lavorare con lentezza, Guido Chiesa, 2004, 111’), proposed by Silvia Coppola and followed by discussion. A truthful fragment of Bologna in the 70s and 80s, where workers and student movements were to change the context of the city through associationism, armed revolt and independent radios. Radio Alice 100.6 came out…(Read More)