«Beatriz Freire explores the relationship between the act of weaving and cinema through a piece in which a ‘woven’ film is accompanied live by the artist working at her loom. As Freire herself explains,A Texture Map of Monnegre River it is an audiovisual work emerging from an artistic research project developed around the Monnegre River (Alicante), consisting of three films shot frame by frame on 16mm film. The work proposes a visual translation of textile notation, using weaving codes as a shooting script, where each frame corresponds to a crossing of weft and warp. A film-textile experiment that investigates whether textile notation, when applied to analogue cinema, can generate a particular kind of radiance: images that elude a conventional gaze and open up new ways of perceiving the landscape». — Elena Duque for the (S8) Mostra Internacional de Cinema Periférico.
