The Festival

Bitbang hosts its eponymous International Animation Festival, held annually in Buenos Aires since 2015. Over the years, the festival has established itself as a space for exhibition, encounter, and discovery, showcasing both international figures and emerging artists. The festival offers screenings, workshops, art installations, immersive experiences, special activities, and spaces for interaction between artists, professionals, and the public.

The Club

In 2017, Bitbang expanded its format and began developing as a cultural club as well. Through weekly or monthly gatherings featuring screenings, parties, exhibitions, art installations, karaoke, and multidisciplinary activities, Bitbang Club has become a space where animation, music, video games, and visual arts converge. We understood the need for connection and sought to create a haven where the arts are an integral part of life, and where active participation in culture contributes to peaceful coexistence. These gatherings reinforced the community dimension of the project and transformed Bitbang into a meeting point for a restless and active community.

Bitbang as a space for encounter and learning

In 2020, in a global context marked by the pandemic, Bitbang incorporated virtual platforms as a way to facilitate dialogue, exchange, and encounters among artists from different parts of the world. Although the pandemic has ended, the need for a refuge where one can think, research, and create alongside people from all corners of the globe remains relevant in an increasingly confusing world.

We believe in the value of encounter, whether in person or virtual, as a driving force for critical thinking and artistic creation. We prioritize processes over results and understand learning as a collective experience, shaped by practice, mistakes, and shared reflection.

From this perspective emerges Bitbang Academy, Bitbang’s training space, which brings together and expands the educational experiences developed over the years through workshops, labs, and talks. Bitbang Academy proposes an authorial, critical, and experimental approach, understanding animation not only as a technique, but as an expressive, political, and poetic language.

We envision Bitbang as a space for sharing processes rather than results, for coming together around questions rather than certainties. A dynamic community sustained by encounter, collective learning, and animation as a sensitive tool for understanding and transforming the world. A kind of shared audiovisual utopia.