The San Francisco Cinematheque international film festival is a point of reference in its field. Since its founding in 1961 by the filmmakers Bruce Baillie and Chick Strand, it has tirelessly striven to showcase a less conventional and more avant-garde type of film closer to experimental, personal and underground cinema. Throughout its 52 years of life it has not ceased to promote the careers of thousands of emerging artists devoted to making experimental videos. For this year’s festival, entitled Crossroads 2013, AC/E has backed the participation of the Colectivo Cráter of Barcelona formed by Luis Macías and Adriana Vila. These two up-and-coming video artists have a short track record but a significant international background. The work by these artists that has been chosen by San Francisco Cinematheque is called Tejido Conectivo (Connective Tissue). It consists of installations and/or performances created from home movie archives. Projected as simultaneous and overlapping stories, Tejido Conectivo focuses on the creative recycling of memories of unknown people and celebrates the materiality of the cinema by making the process of projection and handling visible, while conveying the appearance of live visual and acoustic atmospheres. This project has benefited from an artistic residency at the Can Xalant Centro de Creació I Pensament of Mataró, a production grant from ClNCA, Consell Nacional de las Artas, and the collaboration of the Institut Ramon Llul.
