35mm film projection, sound, slides, strobe light and mixed media

Desbordamiento apanorámico de la imagen (a-panoramic overflowing of the image) from 1956 is a rarely seen work by Spanish artist and filmmaker José Val del Omar. Conceived as a “new technique of psychological relief ”, the project consists in overflowing the extra-foveal area of the retina – or our peripheral vision – by projecting inductive and abstract images over a concentric, “objective” screening, and expanding onto walls, floor and ceiling. Artists Esperanza Collado and OJOBOCA (Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy) collaboratively present a reenactment of this historical Expanded Cinema work for the first time in its original analogue format and performative setting. The film chosen to accompany this experience is Fuego en Castilla (1956–59), where Val del Omar applied unusual pulsed lighting procedures on liturgical, spectral images.