Film poster: vertical Super 8 strips carrying Polaroid emulsion, reassembling the fragmented image of a seated figure. Handwritten title in black marker on paper tape reads "La Necesidad y el Deseo (Need and Desire)."
Macro detail: a tear at the center takes the shape of a standing figure, surrounded by turquoise emulsion grain against the transparent support.
Macro detail: a large tear at the left exposes the transparent film support against a dark brown emulsion grain.

La Necesidad y el Deseo (Need and Desire)

8′ 24″ | Spain, Italy | Super 8 → digital  | Color | 2026

A gesture of erasure. A spell.
If you lift the emulsion from a photograph, destroy its surface, transplant it onto a new body, does the memory it carried survive?
Need and Desire originates from this question, and from the poetic belief that making a film can alter reality. The cinematic act becomes incantation: a process that destroys and reconstructs simultaneously. Still memories become an “emulsional” landscape.

Need and Desire is a cameraless handmade film exploring the materiality of emulsion through instant photographs lifted and transplanted onto a Super 8 polyester base of recycled film scraps.

Screenings

ULTRAcinema XV, Mexico City, Mexico, 2026
Antimatter [media art], Victoria, Canada, 2026
BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, Spain, 2026
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, USA, 2026
Revolutions Per Minute Festival (RPM26), Boston, USA, 2026

Credits

Director & Producer: Francesca Svampa
Sound artist: Clàudia Baulies