Instead of the usual route, this year Cinema Recorridos proposes an experience with two stops: two consecutive performances that invite us to experience cinema beyond the screening room, in dialogue with other spaces in the city. Two works by Galician artists that combine sound, architecture, and live image, encouraging experimentation and offering new ways of engaging with visual and sonic arts.
In this edition, Cine Recorridos offers an evening with two interventions that explore cinema through sound and image. Sound artist Xoán-Xil López and filmmaker Iván Torres Hdez present NØWX, a piece investigating traces of old radio transmissions. Following this, Sacro, by musician Fon Román and filmmaker Oswaldo García, reinterprets the Church of San Domingos through 3D scans, visual creation, and live music.
Two proposals that extend the cinematic experience beyond the screen, in a unique edition of Cinema Recorridos that, without abandoning its spirit, is presented this time in a different form.
NØWX
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Halfway between generative art installation and concert, N0WX is conceived as a piece that brings into focus the processes through which what we hear gains meaning, starting from noise and its expressive potential.
N0WX is built around the capture of different kinds of radio emissions, images, electromagnetic interactions, soundscapes, and oral testimonies. All these recordings were made in locations where radiofrequency antennas once stood. These layers overlap and feed into each other in a continuum of voices and frequencies, tones and rhythms, which dialogue with the slow visual flow of a sequence of analog photographs projected This material/immaterial body, recorded, fragmented, and processed, invites us—through listening—to rethink territoriality and distance, voices and bodies, as well as the resistance of certain media, like radio, to succumb to repeatedly announced obsolescence.
Documentary and sound experimentation converge here, unfolding in a slow time to explore spectral presence and ruin as forms of residual permanence that invite us to question the occupation of shared space and its subjectivities, the border as an arbitrary construct, and geopolitical relations as heterotopias charged with interference.
N0WX is a work in progress that begins with this first production for Play-Doc, through fieldwork focused on the artistic documentation of technological fossils and remaining architectural structures in the area where, not long ago, the so-called three towers of Arneiro (Lugo) stood.
Xoán-Xil Lópezis a sound artist and researcher whose work revolves around phonographic practice (field recording) and sound experimentation.
Iván Torres Hdez is a documentary filmmaker and audiovisual artist. His work is based on research and the pursuit of new narrative and essayistic forms, blending artistic disciplines without distinction.
SACRO
Sacro is a real-time audiovisual creation project that explores the relationship between heritage, sound, and memory. The project adapts to the site where it is presented, and on this occasion, it takes as its starting point the 3D scanning and sound recording of the Santo Domingo architectural complex in Tui and its surroundings.
This digital rendering of heritage becomes the raw material for a live dialogue between musical improvisation and generative visual programming. Through this interaction, Sacro reflects on religious architecture and its symbolic weight, addressing its significance as a space of spiritual reflection and communal resonance.
The intervention takes shape as a video-scenography projected onto the building’s walls, where point cloud aesthetics and algorithmic distortion reshape altarpieces, elevations, and ornamental structures, modified in real time by sound frequencies and analog audio controls. This clash between stone and data—between the analog and the digital—generates an immersive experience that dialogues with the acoustic nature of the space.
Intervened archival images complete the proposal, evoking folk celebrations and fragments of Tui’s urban fabric, connecting the site’s history with the viewer’s memory. All visual content is manipulated live, resulting in a one-of-a-kind piece, attuned to its environment and to the moment.
Sacrois a project by the collective FON_OS, led by musician Fon RománOswaldo García.