This selection reveals two main edges, on the one hand, the dialogue with memory and the personal and family archive in an investigation of the constructed subjectivity, made into a story and a sensitive mark through the audiovisual. The works refer to the life experience inscribed in the archive and resignified in its creative treatment, which gives rise to processes of audiovisual resignification of the self in relation to the world.

On the other hand, we find an audiovisual approach as a reflexive vehicle against time, society and individuals. Contextually situated works that question and cast a critical gaze on the past and the pretensions of the represented world. Montage that updates the sequence shots of the orthodox story of the determined, making them sensitive to being transformed, as much as the realities with which they dialogue.

Programador:
Raúl Vidales
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8 SHORT FILMS

1:31:38

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Life is One-Shot

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Hassan Mokhtari

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When I was kid, I had a terrible problem with stuttering and now I wanted to make a film and act in it, no one helped me. But I am making a film that I will direct in front of the camera and act behind the scenes! This is my daily life. Are you ready to hear? 

Iran, Islamic Republic of | 13min. 30s.

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Re-encounters

Reencuentros

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Claudia G. Covarrubias

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The images that were kept in the darkness of a hard disk, are now reborn to meet again, they have changed, and so has the director.

Mexico | 4min.

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Agua y más agua

Water and more water

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Francesca Svampa

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A dreamlike portrait of Barcelona, shot in double exposure on reversible 8mm film, is interwoven with an intimate “I remember” voice, creating a collage of memories à la Brainard and Pérec.

The director’s personal micro-memories, as a woman, filmmaker and immigrant, evoque the spirit of a time that may never return, constructing a communal heritage.

The act of making this film, involving the haphazardous double exposure and the fragility of the physical film itself, becomes a metaphor for the perpetual tension between memory and oblivion.

 

España | 6min. 12s.

4.

Grandma’s Scissors

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Erica Sheu

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Is it a reconstruction of memory in the silence, or rather, notes before the memory disappears? The voice cannot be heard again, but the heart can still feel it through the eyes. The camera turns tactile to textile. The filmmaker connects with her grandma from her own craft to hers. 

United States | 5min. 34s.

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Vercors

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BERLENDIS Sébastien

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Vercors presents itself as a documentary built like a daydream in three times, around a woman and different spaces and landscapes, filmed in super 8, in the mountainous region of Vercors.

France | 13min. 50s.

6.

Bagatelas

Bagatelles

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Ferrán Vergara

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This documentary essay is a reflection about the importance of the quotidian for historiography, using the re-signification of recycled archive footage from Chilean television newsreels and commercials from the 1980s, which were silenced in order to promote an ideological discourse during Pinochet’s dictatorship.

Chile | 25min. 25s.

7.

Liminal

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Jhonny Carvajal Orozco

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Liminal: It is a state of transience between something that has gone and something that is yet to come.
A walk through the streets of Bogotá in search of a perfect world the day after a manifestation.

Colombia | 14min. 18s.

8.

Estas imágenes fueron hechas para no mirarse

These images were made not to be looked at

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Pablo Romo

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The images are more than they show, it is only necessary to look at them again.
This movie is an essay about images that were made to not look.
The images are More than What They Show, It is only needy to look at them agin.
This film is an about an images that were made not to be looked at.

Mexico | 8min. 49s.