We are artists, educators, and researchers, lovers and practitioners of the visual and audiovisual arts, with a focus on extended and experimental practices. Our festival is a space for encounters with thought free of constraints, free of censorship. It is a space for approaching artistic creation in freedom. A festival-school, a laboratory for learning, for sharing knowledge, and for building and practicing the arts and free thought.
“Here, we see differently” because we stand for diversity in forms, in language, and in culture.
We are committed to situated research (where practice and theory intertwine) in order to share it with the territory of Toro. Our goal is to make selected and produced materials accessible and close to the community, and to cultivate knowledge and an appreciation for the experimental gesture.
We understand experimental cinema as that in which poetry and the visual arts converge; a cinema that extends its boundaries beyond spectacle, beyond technical correctness, beyond the themes and forms that dominate current agendas. It is an imperfect cinema, one that embraces its artisanal condition and seeks to restore awareness of corporeality. At the same time, it reflects on, problematizes, and questions the construction of the image: its modes of production, its techniques, its materials. The cinema that concerns us conceives images as performative, belonging to themselves because they are an archive of their own making. It is a cinema with a territorial imprint, constantly redesigning, mutating, and speaking to the world.
We are a festival that amplifies local artistic expressions, a co-participant in artistic and communicative actions that bring visibility to the issues of the territory, never indifferent, always critical of its conflicts. We strengthen education and foster pedagogy. For this reason, we carry the banner of respect for diversity, of seeing differently in order to include what seems excluded and to exclude what should never be normalized.
We are an initiative born in the region of Toro, where we seek to continue making an impact thanks to its extraordinary people, its vibrant youth, and its immense historical, cultural, and natural value.
Our commitment is always to work with the community and defend its interests, while contributing through our knowledge and cultural offerings to its social, touristic, and economic development.
We are not interested in partisan politics, segregation, or rigid ideologies. On the contrary, we want to show that seeing differently is both positive and inclusive.
Our festival stands —here, across the country, and around the world— against any act that may harm its community. We oppose and will never endorse actions linked to the mistreatment of women, men, children, elders, or the environment.