Albert Alcoz (Barcelona, 1979) is a filmmaker, researcher, teacher and curator of experimental cinema and artists' video.
PhD in Film and Media Studies for the University Pompeu Fabra with a dissertation on 'Sound and Structural Film' (2016). Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and Master's degree on Documentary from the University Pompeu Fabra. In May 2017 he published his first book, 'Resonancias fílmicas. El sonido en el cine estructural (1960-1981)', edited by Shangrila Textos Aparte. In May 2019 he published the book 'Radicales libres. 50 películas esenciales del cine experimental', edited by UOC.
In 2013 started the project Angular, with Angular Alberto Cabrera Bernal, a DVD label devoted to international experimental cinema. In 2014, with eight filmmakers, founded Laboratorio Reversible, an independent and collective film laboratory located in the city of Barcelona. In 2015 started the project Cinema Anèmic, a series of screenings on super 8 and 16 mm by local filmmakers. Since 2016 he organizes, together with Marcel Pié, Daniel Pitarch and Pepón Meneses, the CRANC sessions on film and experimental video. In 2017 he curated the exhibition '(Re)viewed, (re)visited A re-reading of the beginnings of Spanish video art' for Arts Santa Mònica.
He writes articles on experimental film, videoart and documentary films to print media as Blogs & Docs, Secuencias, Archivos de la Filmoteca or Cultura/s of La Vanguardia. He has published in catalogs and books like Piedra, papel y tijera. El collage en el cine documental (Documenta Madrid, 2009), La risa oblicua. Tangentes, paralelismos e interesecciones entre el documental y el humor (Documenta Madrid, 2009) o Caras B del Video Arte en España (AECID, 2011).
He teaches cinema and video art at the Fine Arts University of Barcelona and audiovisual culture at the secondary school of Institució Cultural del CIC. He has conducted workshops on analog film super 8 and 16 mm centers as La Casa Encendida and Circuit Torçat.
Co-directed the Venusplutón! web project! (2008-2013) on national video and wrote the blog Unvisionary Clip (2007-2009) on international music videos.
He created the project Amalgama, film sessions and experimental video (2008-2010), a series of film screenings by local authors conducted in centers like the Galeria Atelier, La Fábrica or festivals as LOOP (Barcelona) and VISUAL Majadahonda (Madrid). As a curator has also collaborated with the MALBA (Buenos Aires), La Virreina Centre de la Imatge and Xcèntric (Barcelona), La Casa Encendida (Madrid) and Animateka festival (Ljubljana).
Since 2005 he makes super 8 and 16mm films, as well as videos, that probe the nature of the moving image format, using the medium from a visual perspective related to the tradition of avant-garde film, video art and music video. Some of his works are distributed HAMACA, Xcèntric Archive and are available on the web PLAT.TV.
His pieces have been screened at festivals such as Montreal Underground Film Festival (Canada), Australian International Experimental Film Festival (Australia), Haverhill Experimental Film Festival (USA), the Portland Experimental Film Festival (USA), Jornadas de Reapropiación of Mexico DF (Mexico), EXiS Seoul (Korea), Lucca Film Festival (Italy), Punto de Vista, Pamplona (Spain) and art centers as CalArts in Los Angeles and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley (United States).
Since May 2006, writes the website Visionary Film , about current avant-garde cinema and experimental cinema.
Más información: http://www.albertalcoz.com/
