The best picks of the Punta Y Raya Festival last year in Madrid. This festival, which has been called the "most abstract in the world", explores the creative possibilities of dots and lines in various spheres of science, art and thought. No representation, just dots and lines as ends in themselves. We discovered this festival when they contacted some of our filmmakers to submit their film Peacock Lee to the festival programme last year: http://vimeo.com/20349285

Under the motto Back to basics, Punto y Raya reflects upon what constitutes the essence of form and movement, and explores these building blocks as ends in themselves. From Beijing to Vancouver, from Reykjavik to Buenos Aires, thousands of people were able to attend the festival's reruns organized in each city thanks to the support of our associated venues. We are now joining in with these screenings!

When Punta Y Raya started the festival in 2007 their proposal was as simple as it was universal: "No representation, only dots and lines. Can you take it?". To their amazement, they received near 90 dot·line films from 20 countries. The participants were animation students, renown animators, filmmakers, video-artists, special FX designers, scientists, architects, composers, VJ's, anthropologists, graphic designers… The concept's universality had aroused the interest of various collectives; it was self-evident that the dot and the line affect the way everybody interested in the creative process understands representation.

Come along to the screening of 2011s best films and here are the details of the films:

• Sensology by Michel Gagne
• Lonitt by Candas Sisman
• Supercollider Dreamtime by Aaron Ross
• Op Hop by Benjamin Rowley
• The Night After I Kicked It by Jane Cassidy
• Neo'n. El fuego en las ciudades / Neon. Fire in the cities by Lisi Prada
• Paral·lel 16 / Parallell 16 Sales Miragall Cebolla
• (commercial wallpaper) by Matthias Fitz
• p.e.r.f.o.r.m.a.n.c.e by Karolina Glusiec
• Midnight At Loch Ness by Donald Craig
• Broken by Caleb Wood
• Congruence by Christoph Eggener
• Lines for Clarinet by John Osborne
• Visual Music for ten voices by Steven Woloshen
• ParadoX 2.0 by Bruno Costarelli
• Rain-Death Variations (Pisces) by Ying Tan
• Chasma - m13 by Konstantin Palyanov