09/05/2026
"Varela’s great achievement is to offer a vision of the specific character of archival footage—how it might stake a path toward a transcendental film, one that “screens” outside of time, and where cinema becomes our natural way of grasping repetitive needs and gestures."
— Byron Davies unpacks Bruno Varela's experimental feature-length film "El Prototipo" in the article "From Archival Footage to Cosmovisión" in our current issue
📸: Bruno Varela, El Prototipo (2022), film still (cropped). Courtesy the artist.