Tribute to Latin/Canadian Experimental Film
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Latin & Canadian Experimental Films
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Tackling themes of memory and oblivion, QT2SBIPOC immigrant/migrant experiences, rampant homophobia and transphobia, the passage of time and mortality, these films explore and reinterpret a variety of techniques — such as stop-motion, super8, 16mm, hand processing animation, and collage — as well as conventions in the use of space, sound and editing.
This program features a textural film manifesto with in-camera animation, contact printing, and phytograms, a collage of memories turned sensory vision from the Sahara desert to the waters of South America, and a tour through Port-au-Prince’s graveyard (guided by a goat) offering visual delights, and arresting balance between extreme simplicity and underlying complexity. Also included in the program is Parsi, an award-winning
short film by Argentine filmmaker Eduardo 'Teddy' Williams and poet Mariano
Blatt. The film was shot with a 360 degree camera by young individuals within
Bissau's queer and trans community who take us on a spry journey through the
city's neighbourhoods by foot, roller skate and automobile. The 360 degree
footage was then cropped for the cinematic frame by Williams using a VR
headset. This inventive process makes
Parsi a truly
unprecedented artwork. The film's perpetual motion runs parallel to the driving
force of its hypnotic audio track. This takes the rhythmic form of spoken
verses excerpted from Blatt's ongoing poem
No es ('It isn't')
which unfolds as a list of similes each beginning with 'Seems like'.
Cortometrajes experimentales latinos y canadienses
Explorando temáticas de memoria y olvido QT2SBIPOC experiencias de migrantes e inmigrantes, homofobia, y transfobia desenfrenada, el paso del tiempo y moralidad, estas películas exploran y reinterpretan una variedad de técnicas, como stop motion, super 8, 16mm, animaciones y collages, así como convenciones en el uso del espacio, sonido y edición.
Un película llena de texturas con animación en cámara y fitogramas. Un collage de memorias convertidas en visión sensorial yendo desde el Sahara hasta las aguas de Sur America y un tour (guiado por una cabra) ofrece delicias visuales y un balance entre la simplicidad extrema y complejidad subyacente También incluido en el programa se encuentra Parsi, ganador del premio al mejor cortometraje por Eduardo Teddy Williams y
poet Mariano Blatt. La película fue grabada a 360 grados,el material fue
después recortado para cuadro cinematográfico por Williams, Usando un set de
realidad virtual.Este proceso convierte a “Parsi” en una obra de arte
inesperada. El movimiento perpetuo de la película corre paralelo con su fuerza
motriz de su hipnótica música. Toma la forma ritmica de versos extraídos del
continuo poema “No es” que se despliega como una lista de símiles en cada
comienzo con “parece que.”
PROGRAMME:
Wildflowers - Flores Silvestres
Director: Alejandra Higuera | Country: Canada | Year: 2019 | Length: 5min | Genre: Experimental
Synopsis: Wildflowers highlights all the courageous migrant people that have been forced to leave their land and loved ones. Especially the QT2SBIPOC immigrant/migrant experiences, who are super vulnerable, particularly Trans peoples, of who we celebrate, love and want to thrive.
LAL has long advocated for safe spaces and continues to create electronic music’s initial vision of creating spaces where people come together to feel safer, dance, explore sexuality, take care of each other, and collectively heal. ‘Dark Beings’ reflects the continued resilience of our communities.
Grabados del Ojo Nocturno
Director: Jean-Jacques Martinod | Country: Morocco & Ecuador | Year: 2016 | Length: 7min | Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Synopsis: A collage of memories turned sensory vision and ritual travelogue, from the Sahara desert to the waters of South America, passing through an old ancestors abode.
Parsi
Director: Eduardo Williams y Mariano Blatt | Country: Argentina, Suiza, Guineau Bissauo | Year: 2019 | Length: 23min | Genre: Adventure
Synopsis: No es (It isn’t) is a cumulative poem which constant writing process extends over a lifetime. The text of the poem can cover anything. With that list of “what seems to be but isn’t”, Parsi observes in a perpetual movement the spaces and people to create another poem that is caressed, crashes and spins next to No es.
It Matters What
Director: Francisca Duran | Country: Canada | Year: 2019 | Length: 9min | Genre: Experimental
Synopsis: Absences and translations motivate this experimental animation in an exploration of the methods and materials of reproduction and inscription. The inquiry is set within a framework of practical and critical human relationships with other-than-human-species elucidated by the theorist Donna Haraway.
A fragment from Haraway’s essay "Tentacular Thinking: Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene" is reworked here as a poetic manifesto. Enigmatic found-footage calls into question human violence over animal species. Plant life is both the subject matter of the images and assists the means of photographic reproduction. The techniques used include in-camera animation, contact prints and phytograms created by the exposure of 16mm film overlaid with plant material and dried for hours in direct sunlight.
Gede Vizyon
Director: Marcos Joao Serafim Neto & Jefferson (Zé) Kielwagen & Stevens Simeon | Country: Haiti / U.S.A | Year: 2016 | Length: 15min | Genre: Experimental, Documentary
Synopsis: GEDE VIZYON is a short, experimental documentary shot in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as part of the 5th Ghetto Biennale. Produced in collaboration with Marcos Serafim (Brazil), Steevens Simeon (Haiti), Jean-Daniel Lafontant (Haiti), Evelyne Thelus aka Mambo Jacqueline (Haiti) and Jefferson (Zé) Kielwagen. Using a goat and two portable cameras, we captured video footage of the Port-au-Prince Grand Cemetery. Later, in response to this footage, Ougan (priest) Jean-Daniel Lafontant created the poetry that became the narration, and Mambo (priestess) Jacqueline sung the religious songs that became the soundtrack. These audio recordings happened at the house (shrine) of Ogou at Temple Narivéh, in Port-au-Prince.
Recreactions (From The House in Ruins 1)
Director: Jorge Lozano | Country: Canada/Colombia | Year: 2017 | Length: 5min | Genre: Experimental
Synopsis: Recreactions is a work about (re)inhabiting displacement. It is a response to the infrastructural dispositions that enable the uncovering of accidental force relations hidden within the folds of everyday encounters (abandoned spaces) with autobiographical memories.
Los Años / The Years
Director: Sumie Garcia | Country: Mexico | Year: 2019 | Length: 8min | Genre: Experimental, Documentary
Synopsis: Birthdays and their celebrations are a pervasive way with which we measure our lives and the passage of time. The Years is a meditation on time, memory and mortality through our representation in images and rituals throughout our lives. A representation of the circular nature of time and generational continuity, the short film ultimately highlights the abstract ways in which we understand time and collective experience.
Mer Bleue
Director: Cecilia Araneda | Country: Canada | Year: 2019 | Length: 4min | Genre: Experimental
Synopsis: A pathway through time captures the changing of seasons and the evanescence of love. Mer Bleue was shot on 16 mm and video at the Mer Bleue bog in Ottawa, Canada.
The Island
Director: Alexandra Gelis | Country: Canada-USA-Colombia | Year: 2018 | Length: 6min | Genre: Experimental
Synopsis: A garden between Oakland and Berkley where its inhabitants, marginalized by gentrification, plant fruit trees and flowers to pay homage to their loved ones who died in battles against poverty. This is a space of love and freedom cared by Brian for the last 25 years. The island resists, as a living legacy of the Black Panthers who were the first to organize the neighborhood.
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Start:
2019-10-04T21:00:00-04:00
End:
2019-10-04T23:00:00-04:00
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