Vive le Cinéma: How Tabakalera is Helping to Broaden the San Sebastian Festival

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Caitlin Quinlan “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 (“One Year, One Night”).  “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.  “For Vive le Cinéma, we offered the filmmakers a space for experimentation and invited them to go beyond the boundaries of the cinema screen and play in a different way with space, time, and interactions with the audience.”  For the arts centre, Montero adds that “supporting artists and giving a broad audience the opportunity to have access to contemporary creation and to see how artists deal with crucial matters, are essential to us and representative of Tabakalera’s aims throughout the year.” Lemohang JeremiahMosese: ‘Bodies of Negroes.