La Pantalla Mutante (The Mutant Screen), by Pol Merchan
La Pantalla Mutante (The Mutant Screen)
The Mutant Screen emerges as a patchwork of forms in erratic sociotechnical interdependence, like creatures in perpetual transformation excavating late Francoist cinema, dislocating, rewriting and remediating it, transforming it into a coven of insurrections and disobedience to the ontological impositions of what counts as one (or not), what is accessible to the gaze or what is contorted as a body. The fantaterror of the 1970s and 1980s is no longer a two-dimensional gallery of monsters and dismembered bodies and has become a broken canvas where the queer and the trans,* the dissident and the oppressed, find cracks through which to seep, vectors through which to expand.
Pol Merchan
Pol Merchan is an artist, filmmaker and curator of the Xposed Queer Film Festival in Berlin. He graduated in Fine Arts from the Universitat de Barcelona and completed a Master in Art in Context at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. His work has been exhibited internationally at art institutions and film festivals such as the Centre d’Art La Panera, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Videonale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Dok Leipzig, Ann Arbor Film Festival and Anthology Film Archives. His work is part of the collections of the Fundació Leandre Cristòfol and the Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani in Lleida.
